Work Simplification in School Kitchens

Work simplification skills help improve the efficiency of tasks. Productivity is a matter of planning, organizing, and developing effective routines. For example, your school nutrition program will often pre-portion items to accelerate service. By simplifying the portioning method, productivity is increased. Trial and error in your kitchens with attention paid to time and motion economy principles result in maximizing productivity by avoiding unnecessary movements and reducing wasted time.

Watch the video to see how you can improve on the work process shown. Video created by Chef Cyndie and the K-12 Team for the North Carolina K-12 Culinary Institute.