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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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In November 2013, a 22-year-old cook named John Schaible arrived in Pocantico Hills, New York, to work at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. As Barber found fame by advocating for a culinary revolution, former cooks, servers, and managers say that conditions at his own restaurant could be brutal, rife with grinding pressure and explosions of anger.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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It was served with accompaniments, one of which was an asparagus relish; at another table, the server was explaining how he’d seen the chef arranging the asparagus on her bread like dragon scales while testing out the recipe. Nothing outwardly distinguished her from the other servers, unless you already knew who she was.

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White Castle Flips for Flippy and Burma Bites

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as the restaurant group’s front-of-house platform. Using SevenRooms’ suite of tools, the chain will be able to optimize their front-of-house strategy and operations for today's dining environment including: Improving data capture for online reservations and digital waitlists.

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