Chef Jim Cox - Highs and Lows of the Culinary Industry in Cleveland

Chef Jim Cox, who spent 14 years as executive chef for Mr. Hero and now is a chef consultant for Orlando Baking Company. Chef Jim has built over 10 restaurants in the Cleveland area and graciously shares several stories of failures and adversity he has endured in the restaurant industry.

Learn how he tackled the restaurant industry for four decades, bit off more than he could chew at times, could be on top one minute and the next minute couldn't get a job. How do you mentally weather the ups and downs in a career that can feel like a roller coaster?

Chef Jim shares some inspiration about long-term goal setting in the culinary industry and how COVID impacted the Orlando Baking Company, a top manufacturer of consumer breads throughout restaurants in the Cleveland area.

Thanks to Chef Jim Cox and the Orlando Baking Company® , a family organization founded in Italy in 1872. After five generations Orlando continues the tradition of quality baking. You can find Orlando Baking Company on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/orlandobaking and Chef Jim Cox on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chef-jim-cox-owner-25b59762

Also thanks to our hosts: Kirk Teets of ⁠⁠Cleveland Custom Coatings⁠⁠ and Kim Kitchen of ⁠⁠Burning River Marketing⁠⁠.

Produced by ⁠⁠Cleveland Podcast Production⁠⁠ in Westlake, Ohio.

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