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Chef Thomas Parker on Running a Floating Fine-Dining Restaurant in Tampa Bay
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This week on the Walk-In Talk Podcast, we step off solid ground and into one of the most demanding kitchens you can run. Chef Thomas Parker , Executive Chef with Manthey Hospitality , joins us on location aboard Craft , a fine-dining cocktail and food river cruise operating in Tampa Bay. Running a restaurant on a moving vessel changes everything. Space is limited. Storage is on land. Service is compressed into a two-hour window. Once the boat leaves the dock, there are no second chances. Chef Parker breaks down how discipline, preparation, leadership, and trust replace shortcuts, and how cooking at this level requires a different kind of calm under pressure. We also talk ambition,…