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Chef Pop-Ups Provide Opportunity, and for Marginalized Chefs, Some Larger Questions | Eater

"A Baltimore cocktail bar that launched a structured quarterly chef residency aimed at career development rather than merely a résumé boost: each resident revamps a menu framework with two wild-card items, trains the in-house culinary team, and is compensated both as a consultant and with a share of gross sales. The program is explicitly designed to teach organizational and business skills, create an internal talent pipeline, and give nontraditional chefs a practical pathway to grow, with early community engagement on social media cited as reinforcing its value." - Jaya Saxena