It was an absolute pleasure to sit down with Chef Jensen Cummings this week for a beautiful beast of an episode. Jensen is host of the Best Served Podcast, chef, restaurateur, and restaurant consultant. To say that Jensen Cummings was born to be in the culinary world is quite the understatement. He is the fifth consecutive generation of Chef and Restaurateurs in his family. They opened their first restaurant, La Fond House, in 1900 in Little Falls, Minnesota. While they joke that his father can't boil an egg, multiple family members are in the industry across the US. So, it was no surprise that Jensen jumped into the kitchen at 17 years old and has had a heralded twenty-year career as an award-winning Chef, Certified Cicerone, Fermentation expert, and Consultant

Jensen is a prolific public speaker, bringing education and entertainment to forums such as chef conferences, food fermentation groups, and craft brewing events like the Great American Beer Festival. Put him in front a room full of culinary students, with his bravado and philosophical delivery (along with a few F-bombs), he really resonates with these future industry leaders, seeking authentic insights into hospitality and the opportunities and challenges therein.

As part of his efforts with Best Served Creative, to focus on Why and Who before what and how, he launched the Best Served Podcast. On this platform, he has the opportunity to interview current industry leaders on the #UnsungHospitalityHeroes in the trenches that make it all happen. They have the chance to reflect on the people who have impacted their lives and careers. He strongly believes that is only in acknowledging others can we capture the true essence of hospitality and usher in the future of the industry he was born to inspire.

When Jensen finds some time to himself, you'll find him indulging in his love of movies. In his youth when others were immersed in college sports bracketology, he was filling out Oscar brackets. He is also a true-blue Los Angeles Dodgers fan. Since his first experience at Chavez Ravine, getting a cheap blue giveaway glove signed by Ramon Martinez, he was hooked.

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