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Kitchen Leadership Programs

Learn the job. Do the job. Before you get the job.

For chefs and GMs developing the people they believe in, and for cooks and sous chefs ready for the next role. Start where you are.

Pick the rung that fits

I'm developing someone

Enroll a cook or sous chef you believe in. You run a 30-minute session every other week on your schedule, their numbers never leave the building, and the capstone is built on something your kitchen needs.

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Leadership Readiness Check

Free

Ten questions. Five minutes. See where your skills stand and what to learn next.

  • 10 questions, five minutes
  • Score by area
  • What to strengthen first
  • Your recommended next step
Check my readinessGet the Kit $49

Your score shows your three biggest gaps and points you to the matching next step.

Tools you run yourself

Best first step

Plate Cost & Menu Engineering Kit

Plate Cost & Menu Engineering Kit

$49

Cost it, spec it, rank it, in 7 days.

  • Self-guiding workbook + worked example + 7-day playbook
  • Counts toward the System
Get the KitTake the readiness check

The Food Cost Formula System

The Food Cost Formula System

$297

The install sequence for food cost.

  • 7 modules · 3 annexes · 26 Excel tools
  • Your Operating Plan
Get the SystemSee all 26 tools

The Kit credits toward the System within 30 days.

Kitchen Leadership Program: with a sponsor or on your own

Self-Study

Kitchen Leadership Program: Self-Study (Monthly)

$97 a month for six months, or $549 paid up front

The numbers side of the chef's job.

  • 12 units, six months
  • Stonebridge teaching set
  • Self-scored capstone with model answers
  • Includes The Food Cost Formula System ($297)
  • Finish the program and pass the completion quiz to earn your certificate and 2 months of Chef's Office, free.

Or $549 paid up front →

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Sponsored

Kitchen Leadership Program: Sponsored

$1,495

With your chef or GM in the room. Enroll someone on your team, or enroll yourself.

  • Your own property's numbers
  • 30-min sessions with your chef or GM every other week
  • Capstone your chef signs
  • Your sponsorship includes 2 months of The Pass HQ Chef's Office, free, when it opens.
  • Finish the program and pass the completion quiz to earn your certificate and 2 months of Chef's Office, free.

Sponsorship Packet (PDF) →

How sponsorship works →

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For the candidate

You learn how your kitchen really runs, costing, ordering, labor, the P&L, on real work, and finish with a project your chef signs. You walk into the next conversation about a bigger role with proof.

For the property

You get a structured way to develop someone you believe in: a 30-minute session every other week, your numbers never leave the building, and a capstone built on something your kitchen actually needs.

Curriculum

Twelve units. Six months.

  1. Everything Is a Recipe
  2. The Documents and Who Owns Them
  3. The P&L (revenue and cost of sales)
  4. The P&L (labor and controllables)
  5. Mine, Not Mine, Held-To-Anyway
  6. Cost of Goods: the Build-Up
  7. Cost of Goods: Your Menu
  8. Labor: Reading the Number
  9. Purchasing and the Dock
  10. Period End and Variance
  11. Building the Case
  12. Capstone

Sponsoring more than one person? Sponsor a team → Building a program for your whole property? Tell us about your team.

Kitchen Leadership Program: with Chef Lockard

Guided

Kitchen Leadership Program: Guided

$4,995

Sponsored, plus me.

  • Everything in Sponsored
  • Development Plan, Progress Check, and Capstone and Next-Role Plan calls, with written notes
  • Paid in full
  • Your sponsorship includes 6 months of The Pass HQ Chef's Office, free, when it opens.
  • Finish the program and pass the completion quiz to earn your certificate and 2 months of Chef's Office, free.

A property can enroll a candidate directly.

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Kitchen Leadership Program: 1:1 Mentored

1:1 Mentored

1:1 Mentored — Guided Program (Part 1 of 2)

$9,500, paid in full. Four seats at a time.

Chef Lockard develops your candidate himself. 12 one-on-one sessions over six months, plus a Development Plan call, a Progress Check and a Capstone and Next-Role Plan. All work is on our teaching property, so your numbers never leave your building.

One checkout, $9,500 total. Add Chef Lockard's Sessions when checkout offers them.

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How Guided works

Your chef or GM runs the 12 sessions on their schedule. I'm in the candidate's corner for the whole six months. Three calls with me: a Development Plan at the start, a Progress Check at the midpoint, and a Capstone and Next-Role Plan at the end. Written notes after the Progress Check and the Capstone, shared with the sponsor. Between calls, direct access to me by email on the work and on where your career goes next. No sponsor yet? Start with Self-Study. If you pay up front, your $549 counts toward Guided within 30 days. Guided seats are limited. When The Pass HQ Chef's Office opens, the Guided sponsor gets 6 months included.

Coming soon

Coming soon

The Pass HQ Chef's Office

For chefs and managers already in the seat. The Pass HQ method behind your AI, plus a weekly note from the pass.

I want Chef's Office access

Architecture

Mission

Install the numbers side of the chef's job on the property you already work: plate cost, labor, purchasing, period close, and the case your GM will act on.

Questions? See the FAQ →