We were lucky to catch up with Jean claude Melito recently and have shared our conversation below.
Jean claude, thank you so much for joining us and offering your lessons and wisdom for our readers. One of the things we most admire about you is your generosity and so we’d love if you could talk to us about where you think your generosity comes from.
I come from a Franco-Italian family, where family is more important than anything, having learned to respect and listen to people and give without return
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
i just created a kitchen, in Tempe AZ , where i sell my menu online via platforms (Door-dash, Grubhub, Uber eat) and my kitchen is located in the food court in Tempe,
i sell a selection of dishes, carefully chosen to bring my customers everything they want to eat, with fresh and local products to be able to introduce my customers to something other than fast food, i work with fresh ingredients, and trust local farmers in Phoenix to have the best products.
I launched three brands for my kitchen
1 JC’S KITCHEN (breakfast, lunch, brunch)
1 CRAZY CREPES (with savory and sweet crepes)
1 BITE ME BAKERY (for fresh pastries every day)
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I don’t like to talk about skills, I love my job, and every day I try to improve it for satisfactory results. I learned my trade in France in the best culinary schools, I started cooking with my mother who also worked in the kitchen and from a young age I was always with her in the kitchen watching her make and prepare her dishes.
it was she who gave me the taste to cook for others, to offer her know-how transmitted by her mother,
the only advice I could give to other young people who want to start their life, (and it is because I am 62 years old now that I can say this) always do what you want to do do not wait years to advance in life do the things you love with passion and generosity to have in the end a personal satisfaction of having done your job well. Life is Short .
Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?
my parents brought me a lot in my life so that I could always do what I wanted to do, and I thank them eternally, and another person took over
and it was my wife who knew how to support me in the good and bad times of our life she was always there for me and she always said yes to my (man’s whims) because for her leaving for a foreign country, and leaving all her family and all the things she had in France was the hardest thing to do for the love of her husband, and supporting him at every step in life, and for all that I will never thank her enough.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.jcs-kitchen.com
- Yelp: jc’s kitchen
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