And I’m not talking about fast-food joints like macdonald’s. I’m talking about your everyday restaurants, especially asian restaurants where they have many dishes. How do they take your order and have it cooked and out in a reasonable timeframe? (Less than 10mins waiting time)
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Prep cooking for a restaurant works because they are making a lot of the same things routinely. The home cook has to prep not only to the day but to the portions of a single meal or you waste a lot. Restaurants make a lot at once and if there is extra it just gets used first tomorrow. No waste. You want extra so you aren’t having to prep during the rush because you ran out. That is really bad.
There are a lot of other things too. Enough staff doing dividing up the tasks so multiple steps get done at once not just one person cooking entree and sides and getting drinks and setting the table. Workspace optimized for speed. Practice making the same dishes so it is routine. No looking at the recipe and figuring things out. Recipes optimized for speed and consistency. A professional kitchen is an assembly line for food.
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