FOR ALL RESTAURANT PROFESSIONALS

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Stand up for yourself. Set healthy boundaries. Build a career that leaves room for your life. Free articles, suicide prevention tools, and addiction resources are at the heart of Kanned Heat Kitchen.

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You deserve support beyond the shift.

Find suicide prevention tools, addiction recovery communities, and mental health support. These resources are the reason KHK exists. Our shop and coffee expeditions help fund the mission.

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Articles & Support

For everyone who works in restaurants. Practical articles on boundaries, mental health, physical wellbeing, recovery, and leadership. Free to read, whenever you need them.

  • A head chef briefs the kitchen crew before service.

    Manager Break Plan

    Jonathan Sargent

    A practical coverage worksheet for breaks that happen without dumping the load on someone else.

    Manager Break Plan

    Jonathan Sargent

    A practical coverage worksheet for breaks that happen without dumping the load on someone else.

  • A cook takes a breath and drinks water during a break on the line.

    Career and Boundary Audit

    Jonathan Sargent

    Find the line between a demanding career and a life being consumed by one.

    Career and Boundary Audit

    Jonathan Sargent

    Find the line between a demanding career and a life being consumed by one.

  • A chef pauses at the pass, looking out toward the city at the end of service.

    Seven-Day Micro-Habit Tracker

    Jonathan Sargent

    Choose one action small enough to survive a hard shift. Run the experiment for seven days.

    Seven-Day Micro-Habit Tracker

    Jonathan Sargent

    Choose one action small enough to survive a hard shift. Run the experiment for seven days.

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  • 20 Years on the line
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NOW LIVE · EXPEDITION 001

The Search for Coffee

A field record from the hills of Peru — and the coffee we carried home.

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THE FLAGSHIP

The Backbone

The cross-back that pulls the weight off your neck.

Twelve hours on the line and your traps are doing the work your spine should. The Backbone redistributes weight off your neck and across your shoulders — vertically aligning your spine through service.

Stand taller at midnight than you did at noon.

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THE FOUNDER

Jon Sargent. Nearly two decades on the line. Then his back gave out.

From sixteen years old washing dishes to executive chef — nearly two decades on the line, every station in the brigade. Worked through doubles, through service from hell, through nights where the line broke and only the bodies on it held it together.

The back went first. Then sciatica. Then the surgeries that didn't quite hold.

KHK is what came next — career-extension engineering built by someone who lived the consequence of going without it.

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