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Secret Sauce

The Proven Recipe for Kitchen Leadership

Glenn Flood

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Glenn Flood
01 July 2025
Are you a head chef, sous chef, or hospitality leader trying to build a high-performing team while juggling creativity, consistency, and cost?
Secret Sauce is your go-to leadership guide for the modern kitchen-written by Glenn Flood, a seasoned chef, mentor, and leadership coach with over 25 years in the industry. From five-star hotels and Michelin-starred restaurants to working with Jamie Oliver and MasterChef Australia, Glenn brings sharp insights and real-world tools for leading under pressure.

In today's kitchens, great food isn't enough. You need to be a chef, coach, manager, and motivator-often all at once. Whether you're battling staff shortages, burnout, or high turnover, this book gives you 12 powerful principles to lead with confidence, lift team performance, and thrive in the heat.

You'll learn how to:

✔ Attract and retain skilled chefs in a tough market

✔ Drive consistency without killing creativity

✔ Lead under pressure and reduce kitchen stress

✔ Build loyalty, boost performance, and shape team culture

✔ Balance cost, quality, and innovation without burning out

Who it's for:

- Executive chefs, head chefs, and sous chefs

- Apprentices stepping into leadership roles

- Hospitality managers and venue operators

- Culinary educators and chef-trainers

If you're ready to step up, retain top talent, and find your flavour as a leader, Secret Sauce is the recipe you've been looking for.
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Imprint:   Glenn Flood
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   231g
ISBN:   9781923425774
ISBN 10:   1923425773
Pages:   232
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Glenn Flood is a chef, hospitality leadership coach and kitchen culture expert with nearly 30 years of experience across five-star hotels, ski resorts, Michelin-starred kitchens and national food strategy roles. He's worked with Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Foundation, MasterChef Australia, Nestlé, and Fonterra, and now helps chefs and hospitality leaders build high-performing teams and thrive under pressure.Glenn is an NLP-certified Meta-Coach, holds an Advanced Diploma in Hospitality Management and a Diploma in Positive Psychology. His book Secret Sauce delivers the leadership tools, mindset and strategies every chef needs to succeed.

Reviews for Secret Sauce: The Proven Recipe for Kitchen Leadership

'On every page of Glenn's handy book you can feel his passion and dedication for helping people get the best from their kitchen teams.' Jamie Oliver 'Glenn Flood is a passionate and creative chef, trainer, educator, mentor and an advocate for doing business better. His book will help you shift your thinking and take your hospitality career to the next level.' Gary Mehigan 'Glenn is a chef of the highest order. Not only a man in the business of flavour but a man with a modern-day calming mindset. If you want to become a better chef then read his book - now.' George Calombaris 'I'm pumped that Glenn has written this book! It's a gamechanger for anyone who reads it. Dive in and discover the secret sauce that makes a truly great kitchen leader.' Tobie Puttock


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