6am
I’m up and running with a cup of tea and a quick walk with my three dogs. My day is then pretty packed from start to finish. The last few weeks I’ve been in Italy for in-depth training on Delfield blast chillers and also in Spain, learning all about a new FitKitchen approach which will be rolling out soon.
I also spent the day at the last Nisbets Live event and ran all the live cooking which saw the Merrychef conneX12 helping me to create a Korean style chicken burger with kimchi, some vegetable gyoza ramen, cheese and ham egg bites plus a King Prawn stir fry, which all went down very well with the audience.
7.30am
I’m on the road. The boot of my car contains a Merrychef conneX12 and I’ll take that around to the distributors that are booked in for demonstrations. I also manage a high street coffee shop account and we work closely with them especially when they’re updating their menus that are rolled out to individual stores via Welbilt’s KitchenConnect network.
12pm
Midday can see me heading into a major city such as Manchester to do some end user demonstrations with coffee shops and hotels and I would pop in to see some other customers such as Chatwins Bakery who’ve recently taken our conneX12e.
While in the North, I’d head over to Exemplar Care Homes and do some menu development work with their head chef and the Delfield C5PRO. This is a really interesting piece of development work as they serve texture modified food for their residents with dysphagia and we’ve been helping them with the optimum regeneration of their meals which links back nicely to the training I undertook at the Delfield factory in Italy recently.
5pm
I’ll usually be heading home, fielding some phone calls on the way. We have a big focus on attending exhibitions and I’ve been tasked with organising the live cooking for some of them so I’ll make some calls to the rest of the team and discuss possible recipes and who’s going to be on stand, which customers are attending so I can create a plan to offer the best solutions for our business.
6pm
Sees the day winding down and I’ll take the dogs for a walk and head out for a quick spin on my KTM before dinner and maybe a beer! Or if I’m staying at a hotel for the night, just dinner and a beer and then a few emails before heading to bed, ready to start again.