Star-Crossed Kitchen Crisis

Star-Crossed Kitchen Crisis

You're the head chef of Le Crépuscule, minutes away from your first Michelin inspection. Your sous chef just discovered that someone deliberately tainted your signature dishes with excessive salt and rancid ingredients. With 18 minutes until the inspector arrives, you must identify the saboteur, salvage what you can, and save your restaurant's reputation.

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Survivors

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Popularity

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Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Executive Chef de Cuisine

Conversation Partner

Marcel Laurent, Restaurant Owner & Financial Stakeholder

Setting

High-end restaurant kitchen during pre-service, stainless steel surfaces gleaming under harsh overhead lights, steam rising from pots, tension thick in the air

Location

Le Crépuscule Restaurant, Downtown Financial District

Learning Objectives

Identify which dishes have been contaminated without alerting front-of-house staff

Develop and execute an alternative menu using salvageable ingredients

Find evidence of sabotage while maintaining kitchen operations

Present a convincing explanation to the Michelin inspector

About This Scenario

You're the head chef of Le Crépuscule, minutes away from your first Michelin inspection. Your sous chef just discovered that someone deliberately tainted your signature dishes with excessive salt and rancid ingredients. With 18 minutes until the inspector arrives, you must identify the saboteur, salvage what you can, and save your restaurant's reputation.

How It Starts

Chef, c'est une catastrophe! The inspector is parking his car, and our signature dishes are ruined. Your entire brigade has failed me. Tell me RIGHT NOW how you plan to save my restaurant's future!

This is how Marcel Laurent, Restaurant Owner & Financial Stakeholder's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#1457

Category

General

Location Tag

Le Crépuscule Restaurant, Downtown Financial District

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