Helping Food Businesses Navigate the Evolving Kitchen Environment with Chef & Attorney Chris Yates

Helping Food Businesses Navigate the Evolving Kitchen Environment with washington dc Chef & Attorney Chris Yates

About Chris Yates

Chris occupies a unique space in the legal and hospitality industry. As a DC-based chef, Chris has worked for multiple Michelin-starred and James Beard Foundation recognized chefs and operators. Chris was on the opening management team for the critically and popularly acclaimed restaurant and bakery, Elle, earning a James Beard Semi-Finalist nomination for Best New Restaurant. His work as a chef has appeared in the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington City Paper, and Eater. Prior to becoming a chef Chris had years of trial experience as a public defender and criminal defense attorney, developing a reputation as an expert in the investigation and litigation of child welfare cases. Combining his knowledge of restaurant operations and management systems with impeccable legal skills Chris represents successful as well as new restaurants in business law matters such as real estate leasing, liquor licensing, contracts, branding and trademark, employment matters, and litigation.

On This Week’s Podcast

On this week’s podcast, we talk about how and why he’s made these career transitions. We discuss some of his favorite foods, and his love of soy sauce.  We also talk about many of the current issues in professional kitchens today such as employee wages, staffing shortages, toxic environments, and burnout.

This Week’s Sponsor

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Relevant Links and Where to Learn About Chris Yates

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Chris Yates

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Yates Law Instagram
Yates Law Website

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The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 82 Pastry Chef and Author Lisa Donovan Talks About Writing Her Memoir, the Restaurant Industry and Chess Pie

Pastry Chef and Author Lisa Donovan Talks About Writing Her Memoir, the Restaurant Industry and Chess Pie

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Before we get going, I wanted to let everyone know that I recently launched a Patreon, so you can help support the show, and the Chefs Without Restaurants organization. You can find the link in the show notes, or at patreon.com/chefswithoutrestaurants. I think there are some great rewards, with more to come. If you have a minute, check out the video that I uploaded to the site. And I really want to thank my first two supporters, chefs Justin Khanna and Matt Collins. Justin recoded an episode with me a few months ago, which I broke into two episodes, and I should be releasing my episode with Matt next month. Thanks for the support.

On this week’s show, I speak with Lisa Donovan. She’s a pastry chef and James Beard award winning writer. She’s helmed the pastry kitchens of some of the most important restaurants in the country, including Husk in Nashville, and has kept her whole life afloat by making, writing on and thinking about food – including consulting, recipe development, selling pies out of the trunk of her car and creating the now retired Buttermilk Road Sunday Suppers 

While Lisa is a pastry chef, this isn’t really a discussion about kitchens, though we do touch on that. She writes full time now, and her first book, Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger was released in August, 2020. Most of our discussion revolves around the process of, and decision to write her memoir, and everything that came along with it. We discuss the current state of the restaurant industry, getting comfortable with your audience even when it’s not who you expected it to be, and I get to talk to her about chess pie. 

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Self-Care and Kitchen Culture with Baltimore Chef Sarah Acconcia

The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 25 Self-Care and Kitchen Culture with Baltimore Chef Sarah Acconcia

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On this episode we have chef Sarah Acconcia. Sarah is currently employed as an in-home personal chef for a professional athlete, and is also the owner of Juniper Culinary Apothecary.  Prior to that, Sarah spent many years working in Baltimore restaurants. She is a self-described service industry wellness advocate, and has started a Facebook group called Self Care for the Service Industry.

In this episode we talk a lot about kitchen culture and self-care for those who work in food service. If you’d like to learn more about Sarah and her work, you can go to her website https://www.sarahacconcia.com/

Recommended Book: You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero

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Chefs Without Restaurants Founder Chris Spear of Perfect Little Bites

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Outro music provided by podcast guest Dylan Ubaldo (check out Toyomansi)