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| The Almaden Sonoma Chicken Coop is the best | | | | loyalty in return. We did not want a best family |
| fast food restaurant in San Jose Ca. The reason | | | | restaurant that had a reputation of having a |
| we say this is that you get a high quality meal | | | | revolving door of unhappy personal , as that is a |
| (the kind that take 20 minutes to cook in any | | | | sure fire way to put yourself out of business |
| other restaurant) cooked to perfection in seven | | | | early and you certainly will not create the best |
| minutes or less. The ability to do this took many | | | | restaurant in San Jose . |
| years of operation to perfect. | | | | We also needed to find a procurement specialist |
| The challenge was how do you create fresh, | | | | who knew the ins and outs of vendor |
| nutritious, un-processed food with no additives in a | | | | relationships and who knew how to get the |
| very fast and timely manner? The obvious first | | | | vendors to understand what we were trying to |
| part of the formula was to set up the kitchen | | | | do. We needed just in time fresh food product. |
| using the latest and most advanced cooking | | | | We did not want to take in large quantities of |
| stations that money could buy. Next up was | | | | food and have it sit for one extra minute of time |
| staffing the restaurant with high quality people. To | | | | as that would lessen the quality of our food. So |
| do this right we needed to hire a chef who | | | | we basically had to bend our vendor’s |
| understood the business model we were | | | | mindset into understanding that we were doing |
| proposing and knew where the key players were | | | | something special and that it would require a little |
| to help us achieve our goal of having the best | | | | more dedication on their part then they were use |
| restaurant in the Silicon Valley. The Chef we | | | | to providing the average restaurant operation. |
| chose had many years of experience in all kinds | | | | Once we got a melding of minds on our |
| of cooking environments and he also had a | | | | philosophy the vendors found out that the extra |
| rolodex of names that we could call upon to help | | | | effort on their part would pay off in steady |
| us fill the jobs that needed to be filled in the | | | | business that continues to grow on a daily basis. |
| almaden catering services restaurant, which were | | | | They knew that our success would result in the |
| many. The next challenge for our lead chef was | | | | opening of more restaurants and that we could all |
| training our cooking staff. This job requires | | | | enjoy the fruits of our labor together. |
| patience and leadership and knowing that the | | | | Today we enjoy a great relationship with our |
| people that we have hired will all work as a team | | | | vendors and in turn we get the best quality food |
| and take pride in knowing that they are a part of | | | | at really good pricing. For us this is key because |
| something that is really special. Our management | | | | now we can pass that great relationship to our |
| philosophy requires that our mangers are teachers | | | | customers in the form of great food at a fair |
| and leaders and do their utmost to empower | | | | price making us the Sonoma chicken catering |
| their staff. When you go that extra step to | | | | menu best restaurant in San Jose. |