However, this is, after all, another workable approach for those times.
Parsley root puree, tiger prawns, salmon and an incredible arabic bean and prawn salad…
Overall evaluation: An excellent modular menu from a Michelin one-star restaurant that you pick up and fly home to enjoy.
So what is so smart? You do not have to reinvent the wheel. It is a well know procedure we all know from fast food. Here the focus is on real food and not on a value stream for stuff that is only legally considered as food and optimized to squeeze the last micro cent of margin. In terms of the Extended Business Model Canvas, it is just a new channel without any changes to the rest.
Cuisine, I mean real food, served at real places, from real chefs is probably amongst the most severely hit sectors of our global economy.
Carless strolling through ancient lanes of historic cities to find a new gem – gone
Browsing the menu – gone
Chatting with the service – gone
The somehow weird privacy in an overcrowded bistro sitting close to others and knowing the noise level is a perfect cover for intimate secrets – gone
However, the food itself is still there, and it is fascinating to watch the digital evolution right in front of you by exploring the new ways of enjoying cuisine in the digital age.
I want to start by sharing the fun with unboxing, preparation and enjoying “Müller’s Glücksmomente für den Muttertag”.
Müller’s Box
Nelson Müller and his fabulous work deserve more attention, but here I want to focus on his approach, which is very close to the Cuisine Value Stream along the cooking line that you have in any good restaurant.
The chef is gently nudging you to a menu, and you should take that hint and order it.
The stations have everything prepared for the last step to ship out quickly when the order ticket arrives at the cooking line.
The pre-processed ingredients you get are:
Bread and salted butter
Just give the bread a final kick in the oven and let the butter warm up at room temperature.
Vitello Tonnato
Vitello Tonnato ingredients
Just arrange the perfectly pre-cooked thin slices of veal meat on a plate and add the tonnato sauce (still looking for a more artistic way to do this without jeopardizing the amount). Decorate with the assembly of delicious antipasti.
Vitello Tonnato – servedMorel Essence ingredients
Just heat it and add the Mule Pockets, Crepe Roulades, and finely sliced root vegetables.
The corn chicken breast meat in champagne sauce with champignons, asparagus, and carrots needs some heat and slight dilution. Of course, I have skipped the dilution and just heated up very carefully. Pour this over a bed of colored rice.
Chicken Fricassee – served
Chocolate Mousse with Strawberries and white chocolate truffles
Chocolate Mousse – served
The only trick here is to get it out of the box on a real plate.
Overall evaluation:
Excellent thought out menu that keeps you busy enough in the kitchen without taking to much time and letting you enjoy a tremendous multi-course menu at home. Next time we will try out the Grill Box.
So what is so smart?
None of the courses themself are stellar, but all guarantee a good enough outcome and keep you busy enough to let you think you have done something.
Therefore a
low downside risk combined with
realistically achievable business value with the
available resources at a
reasonable price with
transparent control governance.
The secret sauce for business value in the digital age, right? Oh, my goodness, the business value artist in me once again slipped through 🤓
I think, as most of the nerds of my age should have, seen most of the relevant end-time apocalypse movies. One excuse was: it may be proper preparation for whatever may come…
Well, so far, I can not remember a movie where one of the issues was the asparagus price that went through the roof.
However, I still do not understand why people buy pasta and flour. There is much better stuff to eat during our last days in the civilization we grew up…
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was normal is lost and will, by time, fade from our memory. It began with the forging of a highly complex global mesh up of huge but fragile value streams. They yielded incredible wealth to the great craftsmen of business models. But they were, all of them, deceived, for they ignored the fragility. In the land far in the east, in the fires of a global source, mutation forged a tiny thing, not even alive, that spread out and dominate all human life since then…
However, I owe some photos, after all, this is mainly a photoblog, so let me share some picks from my growing Corona album…
I have a perfect home office, I am busier than before, at least until now, as it is tough to see through the fog of war.
My wife and I have plenty of space and a park right in front of our home to exercise. The deli shop is one station away. I finally have a perfect reason for not going to the hairstylist, and we have no kids but a bidet and can endlessly sustain a toilet paper shortage.
Perfect Corona-quarantine environment, right? No! There is nowhere a place to hide from the upcoming change for nobody. Check Richard Branson’s story. He had everything I still would like to have: a lodge in Sabi Sands, my island in the Caribbean sea, and a company able to build space ships.
The change will be huge. It will be dramatic. It will blow our minds.
As I enjoy fatalistic statements, let us try this: It will be a significant evolutionary step for humankind, or it will ring the bell for a long, painful decay into oblivion.
Where are we right now? Some nations have successfully survived the first wave with more or less damage. Writing from the German perspective (1st May 2020), ca. 160k infected, ca. 130k recovered, ca. 6k dead.
We successfully handled the first wave, where only 0,2% of the overall population got involved.
For this, we essentially had to pull the plug on the entire society. Now with an R0 of below zero, everybody (IMHO) shouts for: put the plug back! Just where? How do you restart the world economy? This has never been done before?
…let us explore this later…
(we need a story – I have one, I am just not sure how many share my perspective, that it has to be a totally and absolutely new story)
The more time I have to think about it, the more I come to fatalistic conclusions.
We pulled the plug. We have successfully cut off most of our intoxicated limbs to preserve the brain.
I have no doubt, the pandemic will pass by, and here in Germany, from my perception, we are on the right path toward the near term OKR.
Key Result: reduce R0 under 1.
Objective: do not hit the health system capacity ceiling;
That is the procedural path where engineers optimize in the well-known efficiency domain. Germany has an outstanding success track record in this domain.
However, switching to tec diver lingo now: we had never performed s-drills on the replug-the-world-economy-procedures. It will be very dark in an even darker world.
We may be along with some few other not-losers of this epic escape-the-bear-race, just to realize there is nothing left. From my point of view, the global shutdown goes way beyond the darkest days of the last world war.
What we see is the afterglow of our civilization. Nothing will be the same. We are fucked up…
Finally, an opportunity to jump on the Corona topic! 🤓
This is living
Humanity is so incredibly mind-boggling! So, while we are right in the middle of a pandemic outbreak of, well, what exactly? Looks like a more contagious but less deadly flu? The only threat is, it would overload the capacity of the health system, which admittedly would look bad but would not kill more people as flue does anyway every year. OK, the overload would take its toll to, but come on at 7+ billion, there is enough material. 😉
In this crisis, the ONLY thing you really can not get any longer at the supermarkets is TOILET PAPER? Is this the most significant concern people have?
AND, shortly after taking this picture, parts of the shelf were refilled with standard toilet paper, people then ask: “is this recycled toilet paper? No? Ah, well, then we will not take it!” 🤪
OK, I have to admit, I also didn’t buy it. I use only four-layered toilet paper. The new supply was just double layered. 😎
Kydroon 