This document summarizes key points from a workshop about working clean and having mise-en-place like professional chefs. It discusses that working clean involves committing to preparation, process, and presence. The workshop teaches participants to create a daily schedule called a "Daily Meeze" to organize their next day's tasks and actions in a calendar format to be more efficient. With good preparation and organization through techniques like mise-en-place and a Daily Meeze, people can better manage their time and tasks.

1. Work
Clean
An introduction workshop
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Committed.

2. “A book that shows the rest of
the world that a chef’s
meticulous need for order isn’t
about obsession - it’s a way to
set them up for success.”
- Chef Marcus Samuelson

3. First, some food porn…

8. What do all these world-class
kitchens have in common…

9. -Thomas Keller
Make sure that your station is clean…
and everything that follows from that.

10. mise-en-place

11. everything in its place

15. -Chef Dwayne LiPuma, Culinary Institute of America
I’m not going to teach you how to cut a carrot, I am going to
teach you how to organize yourself.

16. All of these chefs work clean by
embodying the mindset of
mise-en-place.

17. Working Clean involves committing to 3 values…

18. Working Clean involves committing to 3 values…
• Preparation

19. Working Clean involves committing to 3 values…
• Preparation
• Process

20. Working Clean involves committing to 3 values…
• Preparation
• Process
• Presence

21. Today’s meetup is going to be focused on…
• Preparation
• Process
• Presence

22. Today we are going to practice a
part of the book’s most important
recommendation…

23. Creating a Daily Meeze - the
paramount habit of
the world’s best chefs…

24. Here is what it looks like for
chefs…

27. A to-do list is not enough.

28. Actions > Timeline Sequence > Commit

29. This is what the same kind of output
might look like for us…

32. Ready to practice your Daily Meeze?
Let’s go!

33. 5-10 Minutes: Record Tomorrow’s Actions
• An action is anything you plan to do during the day.
• Any task (“Pick up coffee, “Call Ryan,” “Sketch designs for new
campaign”)
• An appointment (“Staff meeting”, “Video call”, “Lunch with Bianca”) is also
an Action.

34. 5-10 Minutes: Sequence Actions in Calendar
Format
• Sequence all of tomorrow’s actions.
• Calendars make the perfect tool to guide our daily actions because they
are finite. They compel us to be honest about time.
• Be realistic. We are all guilty for being either overplanners or
underplanners.

35. 5-10 Minutes: Review with
another person and revise
• Allow someone else to make your timeline more realistic.
• Are you squeezing in too much or not taking on enough?
• Be realistic. We are all guilty for being either overplanners or
underplanners.

36. -Chef Dwayne LiPuma, Culinary Institute of America
The world is a giant gerbil wheel right now. I think if we just
became a little bit more organized, used a little bit more mise-
en-place, understood what we really need, and only do what
we really need, I think we will have more time.
We will be able to sit down at a table with those you love and
actually cook a meal.
With good preparation and organization,
you can greet the day.

37. Thanks for being committed
to putting books into practice.