GAP Ministries is a nonprofit organization that provides vitally needed social services to residents of Southern Arizona. Its 10-week culinary arts certification program teaches second-chance individuals marketable job and life skills, while the GAP community kitchen utilizes thousands of pounds of good quality, highly perishable donated food each week to prepare meals for low-income children, adults, and residents of GAP Ministries group homes.
GAP Ministries Executive Chef John Hohn has several decades of culinary experience, much of it at five-star resorts and restaurants, and worked in kitchens with RATIONAL combi ovens for years. When he left his job at an intensely busy property in search of a new opportunity that would enable him to spend more time with his family, he made it known during the interview process that if he were to work at an establishment, he would require a RATIONAL combi oven in the kitchen.
“If my job as a chef is to be financially responsible, to make my team better, and to execute meals for guests, then I have to have this tool in my tool box,“ Hohn said. “If not, we cannot be as successful as I want to be.“
He found the rewarding work he was seeking when he joined GAP Ministries in 2015. Today, his kitchen is equipped with two RATIONAL SelfCookingCenter® combi ovens that work around the clock to prepare meals for people in need.
