Matthew Li

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370 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Checking In by Hotel Owner · 'Respect works both ways – that's how great kitchen teams are built' · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

When you're managing

twenty, twenty-five members of staff from different corners of the world, different ages, different religions, different beliefs.

And everybody's different just as a person.

So I think it's very important to

understands that you can't always fix everything with the same

Tool.

And

not necessarily overwhelm them with it.

You can you you can just be the person they come to if they need something, you don't have to like pound them and press them and say, Tell them what's wrong.

Sometimes that can push people even further away.

So if people wanna c our door's always open.

I say our like Andrew and I.

I our doors always open if you want to speak.

We would rather them do it as well than not.

Throw yourself into really uncomfortable situations.

as long as in the right situations.

When I left college after four weeks to go work an apprenticeship with Andrew, I was walking into um Manchester only Five Star Hotel at the time.

awards left, right, and centre.

And I was w I was walking into a team where I was probably the youngest chef by about eight, nine years.

That in itself as a sixteen year old can be quite daunting.

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