I Am Very Ready for Break!

As you may or may not know, I am now teaching our sophomore level restaurant management class where we rotate students through our Cafe and the Front- and Back-of-the-House of our fine dining restaurant.  The students also rotate through six positions on each rotation so there is a new face in a place each lab.  Since teaching the class I now respect the challenge that those teaching the class have faced over they years as well as all of you out there doing the same.  And since we are not a culinary arts program and most students want to be event planners or hoteliers the class is a challenge to teach to say the least.

Although the class is beating me down, I LOVE it!  It is the ultimate challenge to both teach students foundations of restaurant management operations while catering to the "Buger King Have it My Way" clientele that we serve every day.  I will be sharing more of this experience with you in the future on what the problems and challenges have been and the teaching theories, principles and techniques that I will start to incorporate to better manage the madness that is the restaurant lab.  That is why I highly recommend downloading and reading the Teaching that Sticks article I posted on last blog post.

In the meantime, I am very ready to enjoy Thanksgiving break and get the sense that many of you are in the same boat and ready to do the same.  So Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at FELC to all of our members and others.