Chef Works will be spotlighting someone in waitstaff each month through November as part of our “Five-Star Service” blog feature. In December, we’ll ask our blog’s readership to vote who has the “best story.” We’ll dress the winning restaurant with Chef Works gear! Pictured above is Brandon Carlisle of The Patio on 101, photographed byFIND OUT MORE |

Sorry, Alice Cooper. School’s back in session. Chefs know that the right gear makes the difference. That goes beyond knives and hardware. “Time and time again, the feedback we get from culinary institutions is that the quality of apparel they get from Chef Works is so solid and sturdy, that many students go on toFIND OUT MORE |

Welcome to Week 34. Extra credit if you know what that number has to do with Alexandre Dumas and Edmond Dantès. Hint … there’s a sandwich named after it. That’s all you’re going to get. This week we’re bringing you female farmers on the rise in Georgia, a mathematical breakthrough in Massachusetts, thievery in NewFIND OUT MORE |

Each month we feature an International Chef of Chef Works. If you’re a fan of Chef Works gear and are interested in being featured, email marketing@chefworks.com. Pictured above is our August International CoCW, Chef Anna Gedalof, photographed at the Havergal College for girls in Toronto in her Marrakesh V-Series Chef Coat.  Chefs are used toFIND OUT MORE |

There’s just one day left in the Chef Works Chef Appreciation Week Sale. Take 15 percent off of your entire order of $50 – with 10 percent going to the Trotter Project – by entering CHEFLIFE18 at checkout.  Sale ends tomorrow night.  As Chef Appreciation Week comes to a close several connoisseurs of the kitchenFIND OUT MORE |

Welcome to Week 33. For all of the Disney insiders, this is your week. Also, this is a big week for Rolling Rock drinkers, who have long debated the meaning of “33” on the labels. The origins of the “33” have taken on lore-like status. Not even Snopes has the answer. If you crack itFIND OUT MORE |

Each month we feature an Apron Ace. If you love your Chef Works apron and wear it outside of the traditional kitchen setting – makeup artist, potter, florist – or in the case of this month’s Apron Ace, a coffee chef, we want to know! To be featured, email marketing@chefworks.com. Pictured above is our AugustFIND OUT MORE |

Sunday officially kicks of Chef Appreciation Week.  That’s obviously a big deal for the gang here at Chef Works. In fact, it’s such a big deal that we might be offering a big deal (cough, SALE!, cough). Follow our social channels for details: — Instagram — Twitter — Facebook To kick off Chef Appreciation Week,FIND OUT MORE |

Welcome to Week 32. If you’re Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal (the Miami version), Karl Malone or Sandy Koufax, this is your week! Today we’ve got the argument against automated technology, an overnight stay in one of LA’s most famous restaurants, plant-based “skin,” and other news from the restaurant industry. To the links! Shutterstock photo TroyFIND OUT MORE |