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Prep Cook Service

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Some food establishments use prepackaged meals and are essentially microwave services. Others are high end joints where each tiny piece of radish is painstakingly carved. Many are somewhere in-between. They might employ a prep chef to cut fresh vegetables, herbs, etc. They might just wrap that into one or two cooks' duties. They might use frozen, pre-cut vegetables. Or non-frozen.

A lot of factors will influence this choice: What is the restaurant's price point (vs overhead)? How much space do they have—is it a hotdog stand, a hole-in-the-wall, a mall food court joint, a downtown restaurant, or a food truck?

This is where your cape comes in.

They run a local restaurant services business that offers pre-diced onions, pre-grated wasabi, pre-julienned cucumbers with a guarantee of freshness (not like the supermarket stuff that was cut five days ago in a processing facility) and an emphasis on quality.

Maybe they do deliveries, maybe they have a distributor, maybe they have a small storefront—I don't know—but they only devote 1-2 hours in the early morning to that part (say, 9 A.M. to 11 A.M.).

The chefs they supply imagine them getting up at 3 A.M. to start prep so that their veg is ready by 9. Nah. They rolled downstairs at 8:05 and the kitchen was a flurry of knifework. They use a mandoline faster than what is humanly possible or safe.

Maybe they even have a superhuman connection for their produce supply—people probably wouldn't notice.

This job would take only a few hours a day, provide an okay-to-good living, and be very low profile.