Beau MacMillan, Executive Chef of Elements (located at The Sanctuary) , and Bill Nassikas, Owner of the The Sanctuary spoke to our Management class today. Chef McMillan, who is on the ACI Advisory Board, has wrapped up taping his first season of “Worst Cooks in America”. He just returned from filming a couple of episodes of “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”, and has a celebrity episode of “Chopped” on the horizon for the Food Network. He shared with students the path that his career has taken under the mentorship of Chef Chuck Wiley. Chef MacMillan takes great joy in trying to find the best in everyone and helping to inspire them to be the best that they can be. What advice did he give our students? “Never stop believing in yourself ! You can look at things when you are tired and it is a holiday and you miss your family negatively, or you can look at it as an opportunity. You have the freedom to get up every day and make someone the BEST hamburger that they will ever have in their life!”. Thank you Chef MacMillan and Bill for sharing with Arizona Culinary Students today .
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