Behind the Line
Topic: Your Career
What's Next?
Ambitions to land your own reality show? Pen a tell-all? Or perhaps something more tame? What projects are you planning? (Is it a dream or a reality?)
- Carrie Nahabedian
- Executive Chef/Owner
- NAHA and Brindille
- Chicago, IL
Brindille! Our new Parisian-inspired, intimate, dinner-only restaurant is opening in spring right up the street. It's coming along nicely...
We're also looking into packaging and selling our two...
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- Nate Hamilton
- Chef de Cuisine
- Harvest
- Madison, WI
I'm working on one big idea right now. I hate the word "dream" because it implies it's too lofty to attain. I prefer "goal"! It's in the "write a business plan" stage. That's all I'm going to say a...
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- Ben Lambert
- Executive Chef
- Bread & Tulips
- New York City
I think my ambitions are pretty normal. I do believe that not every person has the ambition to be an owner. It takes so much hard work and alot of risk. I am currently just starting to write busine...
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- Nathan Sears
- Executive Chef/Owner
- The Radler and D.A.S.
- Chicago, IL
I would love to be on a reality show. I have worked in the front of house so i feel i have a natural knack to entertain and show off. Lots of chefs play it cool but we all want attention and love, ...
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- Mark Steuer
- Chef/Partner
- Carriage House and The Bedford
- Chicago, IL
I have no ambition to be on tv whatsoever, but iwould one day like to write a book.
- Geoff Rhyne
- Sous Chef
- The Ordinary
- Charleston, SC
I enjoy writing, so at some point I'd love to write a book about my experiences. This is at least 20 years away though. I envision it being part Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain and part Letters ...
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- David Katz
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Philadelphia, PA
Well, no shows or books just yet. I hope in the kinda near future to expand a bit. I'd like to open another restaurant and/or a retail project. I'd really like to open a throw back style butcher sh...
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- Randy Zweiban
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Province and Province Phoenix
- Chicago, IL
Hopefully a cookbook for the home cooks and right now a new restaurant project for early spring 2011.
- Jimmy Bannos
- Owner
- The Purple Pig and Heaven on Seven
- Chicago, IL
We've shot one pilot for a reality show and it's on the shelf right Noe. I would love to do a tell-all, just to tell my experiences in the restaurant business.
- Sean Sanders
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Browntrout
- Chicago, IL
I would love to open a straightforward diner using sustainable ingredients. It is just a dream right know.
- Chrissy Camba
- Chef
- Bar Pastoral
- Chicago, IL
Hopefully, my boyfriend and I will open up our own restaurant in the next 5 years. Luckily, he and I have similar cooking styles, and I have noticed that we each are strong in each others weaknesse...
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- Tony Priolo
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Piccolo Sogno
- Chicago, IL
At this time in my career, I think that a reality TV show will only move my attention away from my restaurant Piccolo Sogno. So I do not desire to be a part of that right now.
- Paul Fehribach
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Big Jones
- Chicago, IL
Finally having my own restaurant that has been so well received in a major city such as Chicago is humbling for all of the opportunities it presents. There are a number of things I'd like to accomp...
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- Jason McLeod
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Box Tree Restaurant, Inc
- San Diego, CA
I would like to write a book one day about the journey, I don't really care if I sold only copies to my family. I just feel very fortunate to have chosen the best profession and it has been very go...
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- Cary Taylor
- Executive Chef
- The Southern
- Chicago, IL
New company that I can't tell you about yet.
New restaurant that is WAAAAY far from open discussion