Sometimes being creative is not as easy as you think...

Quick Shot: Fried Chicken- A love story

Are you working to impress your peers or to impress the general public? If it matters, are you okay with the side you come down on? Chef explores this today...

Quick Shot:  Who are you cooking for?

Back from a quick vacation, the boys sit down with lawyer and food journalist Michael Gardiner for a talk about Grandma food, the great Pan-Asian movement going on in San Diego, and how Pho can get easily misinterpreted...

Shot and a Beer- Michael Gardiner and other Kosher Delights

Dave Callans

Today the boys sit down and drink with Dave, a bartender at the Mad House.  Dave doesn't like martini drinkers, the weather in Michigan, and most everything else.

Shot and a Beer:  Dave Callans is not happy...

Taking a look a few steps you can use to make the taste panel a helpful experience for you and your candidate....

Quick Shot: Auditions Part 2- The Taste Panel

Sometimes an episode is so powerful it needs to be played again. If you've ever been through some dark days, listen to this tale of redemption. Tommy Gomes and Annette Prohaska are the stars of the show.

Shot and a Beer:  Tommy and Annette Redux

Today we take a quick look at auditions and remind you how to NOT be intimidated by them.

Quick Shot:  Show Business (or how to succeed at auditions without really trying)

Ashley Drake

This week we do a little drinking with Ashley and Rob and talk about events, chocolate, and buying into the "lie".

Shot and a Beer- Ashley Drake and the return of Photog Rob

Today, the intoxicated one muses about reality TV and wonders whose reality it really is.

Quick Shot:  There is NOTHING real about this...

This episode we prove that comedians are people too... well kind of. Allison Gill and Rob Bronson are two comedians who have a lot of experience in the Food and Beverage industry. They offer another unique front of the house look at the life. #SaaBNation

Shot and a Beer: Allison and Rob

Chef and drinking enthusiast Karl Prohaska sits down for weekly interview featuring chefs, brewers, trouble makers and heart breakers over a shot and a beer. The same way it happens after a shift night after night...One take; not really edited for content... just like it would be if we were at the bar with you.  Crack a beer; grab a shot; and come along for the ride...

How can a guy who knows nothing about women raise daughters? You make some guidelines and get to work...

Quick Shot: Raising Daughters

We're drinking with two guys at the top of their respective games: Paul Segura, brewmaster at Karl Strauss; and Chef Davin Waite from Wrench and Rodent. We talk food, beer, economics, and we bring back Five Questions. Boom goes the dynamite!

Shot and a Beer: The Paul and Davin Power Hour

Today our intoxicated champion runs down his F&amp;B Top Ten in 11 minutes...

Quick Shot- The Ten Commandments

Drinking our way back to the culinary world with Chef Katherine Humphus and we talk about her spectacular internship choices (no joke!), how the industry eats their young, and making the leap to control your own destiny.

Shot and a Beer- Chef Kat

Our heavily inebriated hero takes on policy and how it hurts customer service.

Quick Shot: That's Our Policy...

Today our intrepid heroes day drink with Val Guagliardo from Toronado San Diego and they talk about craft beer and it's relationship with the male anatomy (it'll makes sense later).  We also debut a new segment called "5 Questions" and explore 1 minute of silence right at the beginning.  Ah the joys of not editing...

Shot and a Beer-  Drinkin with Val

Drinking today with my good friend Gaby Lee Lutz and we talk about corporate restaurants, the rise of "hay metal", and why she closed down 5th Avenue

Shot and a Beer: Drinkin with Gaby

In honor of the opening of Carnitas Snack Shack #3, we are going to revisit our very first episode with Chef Hanis Cavin and Chef Rich Sweeney.

Episode #1 Redux- Hanis and Rich

More day drinking with the ladies! Chef and Matty have libations with RoseAna Peyron, Chef at the High Dive, and Rebecca Knowles, server at the Comedy Palace and wife of a comedian buddy Erik Knowles. Today we talk Purple Rain, bad customers, and how politebehavior has apparently died.

Shot and a Beer: Becca and Rosie!

Today our embalmed hero talks about building a solid kitchen crew.

Quick Shot- The Three Little Pigs 

Chef and drinking enthusiast Karl Prohaska sits down for weekly interview featuring chefs, brewers, trouble makers and heart breakers over a shot and a beer. The same way it happens after a shift night after night...<br><br>One take; not really edited for content... just like it would be if we were at the bar with you.  Crack a beer; grab a shot; and come along for the ride...

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