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<metaname="description"content="Operations manager in La Grange, Kentucky. Kitchen systems, seasonal growing, community and tradition — same discipline whether it's a dinner rush or a budget review.">
<pclass="lead">Forty-seven years in La Grange, Kentucky. Twenty-some managing kitchen lines. My work sits at the intersection of systems that serve people — scheduling that respects families, inventory that prevents waste, budgets that fund what matters.</p>
<p>This space is where I share what I've learned. Practical kitchen logistics, seasonal growing notes from my tomato and collard beds, and the occasional reflection on building community through food and order.</p>
<h2>What You'll Find Here</h2>
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<h3>★ New: Recipe Coster</h3>
<p>The actual math I run a dinner line through — yield run-throughs, cost per portion, sell price at a target food-cost %, and the house rules that keep a neighborhood kitchen honest.</p>
<ahref="coster.html">Open the coster →</a>
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<h3>Kitchen Systems</h3>
<p>Prep sheets, station layout, ticket management — the backbone of a calm service.</p>
<p>Planting calendars, succession schedules, preservation methods for Kentucky gardens.</p>
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<h3>Community & Tradition</h3>
<p>Notes on feeding people well — church potlucks to emergency meal coordination.</p>
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<h2>What I'm Working On</h2>
<p>The kitchen coster is live — my own plate-build math, self-contained and honest. Next up: a prep-and-parse logging sheet you can actually stand over during a rush, and current-season notes from the collard patch.</p>
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<divclass="garnish">— small batch · run your yield · pay your crew —</div>
