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CEO & Founder @gusto54restaurantgroup 🍝@felixlosangeles @chubbysjamaican @gusto501 @azhartoronto @nervosato @paitoronto @gusto101to

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Finesse 🫶🏻✨

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Let’s do this friends! SEASON 13 is premiering tonight!!!
Catch it at 10pm EST @flavour.network and streaming on @stacktv

Don’t miss it!

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LI asked @janetzuccarini what her secret was with training.

She runs Gusto 54 and many other concepts, judges Top Chef Canada, and has kept people on her teams for decades in an industry where nobody stays.

Ongoing training.

Not onboarding. Not a week. Not a binder someone signs. Training that never stops.

Most owners hear that and nod, and then go right back to running training like a vaccination. One dose up front and you are covered for life.

That is not how any skill works.

Nobody learns a craft in seven days. You learn the bare minimum to not drown, and then you either get developed or you plateau at week two and stay there for three years.

And then owners wonder why the experience is inconsistent.

So build it to keep going.

Train, nurture, coach. Forever. That is the whole job description, and it is why the restaurants that take it seriously look like they found a cheat code.

Put it in your restaurant training systems so it is a cadence, not an event. Every position defined, reinforced monthly, not left to whoever happened to train them in March.

Run real hospitality training alongside it, because the why has to get repeated too. Hear it once and it fades. Hear it three hundred times a year and it becomes who they are.

Then your restaurant leadership carries it in every pre shift, which is the only time your whole team is in one room on the clock.

Do that long enough and it becomes your restaurant culture.

And here is what Janet actually proves. Her people stay for decades. That is not luck. That is what happens when somebody keeps investing in you.

Guest experience gets consistent. Retention climbs and turnover drops. Upselling improves because a continually trained team knows more than it did last quarter.

That is a restaurant sales increase and restaurant growth you built, and what makes scaling restaurants real in a second location.

It takes work. It takes systems. It does not happen overnight.

But success leaves clues.

That one is sitting right in front of you.

#hospitalitytraining #restaurantleadership #restaurantsystems restaurantowner

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Thank you, @evahartling for creating such a beautiful event with inspiring speakers, @paige.cey and @janetzuccarini ! It was wonderful connecting with so many incredible attendees, exchanging ideas, and learning more about the amazing work happening in our community. Events like these highlight the power of networking, collaboration, and women supporting women. At TD, we’re proud to support women-owned and women-led businesses and be part of a community that helps women connect, grow, and succeed.

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Seafood rice noodle soup and my pics @thebrandisfemale event this morning td tower 66 wellington street Toronto with @drinkbenny ceo and founder @paige.cey pic and me @komaljafri00 @janetzuccarini too @victor34199 @guannycage @guannycage322 @vicrock221 .

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Trattoria Nervosa, Yorkville, Toronto
Watercolour painting

The Canadiana Series
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Like family - so grateful for these amazing humans in my life!

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The Band. Bob Dylan. Martin Scorsese. Killers of the Flower Moon.

To the world, Robbie Robertson was a Canadian music icon. To Janet, he was the man she fell madly in love with.

He was 22 years older, and Janet knew what that could eventually mean. She chose love anyway.

They had nearly six years together. After Robbie died, Martin Scorsese wrote Janet words that stayed with her: “never enough time with the ones you love.”

Janet’s takeaway? At some point, you have to let go of the fear and go all in.

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20 days, the cheque that changed everything, and what she calls “the best day of my career.”

Janet, on betting on yourself, playing the long game and building an empire.

Full episode on @Spotify, @ApplePodcasts, @YouTube and wherever you listen.🎙️

#BuiltForThis #Podcast #JanetZuccarini #Gusto54 #WomenWhoBuild RestaurantIndustry

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Dinner with the queen of Toronto’s restaurant scene. 👑

Last week we joined Janet Zuccarini at Gusto 501, where the room is almost as memorable as the food. An old auto shop reimagined by PARTISANS into one of the most beautiful spaces in the city.

The 2026 MICHELIN Guide Toronto & Region was just announced, so it felt like the right week to sit down with a woman who has helped shape Toronto’s dining for nearly three decades.

Come for date night. Stay for the campanelle con gamberi. And notice the staff, because Janet’s not so secret sauce is her people. ✨

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The pressure is real! The judges are tough! The time is never enough! But let’s make mama proud!

Can’t wait for everyone to see what transpires this season! Because this competition is fucking hard! BANG BANG!

This has been a hard secret to keep. ❤️ Competing on Season 13 of #TopChefCanada is a career milestone, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to test myself against some truly exceptional chefs! Watch the season premiere October 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on @flavour.network and @stacktv

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@chubbysjamaican being recognized as a Michelin-recommended restaurant for a fifth year is an honor and a blessing! However, being recognized by our community is heartfelt. We delight in taking care of our guests like family. Choosing us over and over motivates and inspires us to bring you our best food and service everyday. Thank you @shannondempster_ @dadriancoke @janetzuccarini and the whole Chubby’s team for keeping our guests happy and our place in the Michelin guide alive.

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