Mushroom Menu Mayhem

Your upscale bistro's reputation hangs by a thread after discovering your trusted mushroom supplier may have mixed deadly Amanita specimens into this week's delivery. With a fully booked dinner service in 90 minutes and a health inspector already en route, you must identify contaminated stock and manage the crisis before it becomes lethal.

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B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Sous Chef and Acting Kitchen Manager

Conversation Partner

Chef Marcus Sterling

Setting

Industrial restaurant kitchen with stainless steel surfaces gleaming under harsh fluorescent lights. Steam rises from busy prep stations.

Location

Maison Noir Restaurant, Downtown Financial District

Learning Objectives

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Identify and isolate potentially contaminated mushroom stock

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Develop an immediate action plan for tonight's service

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Document food safety protocols followed for health inspector

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Manage communication with staff and suppliers

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Listen carefully - we've got a situation with Woodland Foraging Co.'s delivery. Their picker may have mixed death caps into our chanterelles and morels. We've got 200 covers tonight and the health inspector's doing a surprise visit. What's your immediate action plan?”

This is how Chef Marcus Sterling's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#301

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