Cooking School Productivity Feedback

Lots of feedback on Cooking School Productivity. Obviously the subject hit a nerve. I loved that Martha Jaffe saw the underlying lesson:

This story can relate to almost any professional and/or business person. Thanks for sending it. I could use someone to do the "shopping, prep, etc" for me in my business. Translation: filing and bookkeeping! [my congrats to Martha on being voted #2 travel agent in Ventura County!]

And Lisa Corbett reminded me of a wonderful solution to the planning, shopping, chopping, and even some of the clean-up:

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Here's an inside look from Starr Heiliger of LaStarr & Co (check out her award winning cakes!):

Thanks for the laugh..yes, I laughed because since I own a specialty bakery, this is what I do everyday! Only, like home there is no one else to write the production sheets, place the orders for ingredients. Oh sure, I have staff to do the baking and decorating (as well as myself - that was the fun part in class)
and everyone does their turn at the clean-up...but I want to opt for only the fun part..after all that is what the classes told us it would be.

And now, the Food Channel makes it even harder all the "wanna-be decorators" never see any one clean-up their mess!!!

Thanks to all of you for the feedback. Keep it coming - you can add your comments to this post by clicking "comments" below.