Become dangerously adaptable
Accelerate your progress in professional kitchens, with proven & time-tested skills.
✍️ Finally feel organized with extensive task lists and heavy prep
🤝 Communicate effectively with team members (while gaining respect)
👀 Build lasting habits that you’ll use for years to come
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Improving is for everyone.
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you acknowledge a gap.
A gap between where you see you’re at now, and how you see high-performers working in professional kitchens.
It’s frustrating to look at co-workers and managers who can get more done than you, with seemingly effortless “finesse” and level-headed “calm” under pressure.
Watching them work might bubble up questions like:
“Why can’t I do that?”
“What are they doing differently?”
“How is that even possible?”
Well, it’s definitely not:
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No one’s cracked the code on getting more than 24 hours in a day (yet).
Chances are, you and your peers probably clock in at around the same time, too.
But as hard as you “push”, you just can’t seem to get as much done in the same amount of time as they do.
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Unless you’re built like the Pokémon Machamp (he’s got 4 arms), physical capacity rarely leads to increased performance in kitchens.
I’ve worked with folks of all shapes and sizes in my career, who can crush both prep AND service with ease.
Unlike the Olympics, having increased lung capacity or extra-long arms isn’t going to make you a better team mate.
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A new spoon, fresh-out-the-box knife, or offset spatula isn’t gonna make a difference.
Give a high-performer a bad set of tools and they’ll still come out ahead.
Don’t get me wrong, having a great kit is a joy to work with, but I hope we can agree: your gear isn’t the problem.
The Right Skills
What will bridge this gap, and what Total Station Domination (TSD) is all about, is Skills.
It’s not about “born-with-it” talents or hacks that feel like “duct-tape solutions” (sure, those might work on Thursday but they fall apart during Saturday night service).
I’m also not a fan of the “just figure it out” advice that gets thrown around out there when people ask how to improve.
I think about it like an equation: Skills x Time = Expertise
I can’t put in the Time for you, but TSD lays out the Skills required in a structured way, that anyone can start using immediately.
You deserve to develop Expertise.
Why take Total Station Domination?
I know what it’s like to feel anxious and scattered in a professional kitchen. The feeling of uncertainty, disorganization, and fear of getting sent home during service plagued me for years.
The feeling of being in a career-plateau is all-too-familiar for me, as well. If you’re going through it now, it’s a slog, and I’ve felt your pain. When you’re unsure of how to break through the ceiling, it’s REALLY hard to get promoted.
To cut straight to the chase: I want to teach you the skills which will develop into the confidence to:
💰 Ask for a raise in your current position (and get pay increase that far pays back the investment into this course)
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📈 Expand your resume into a kitchen that might currently feel “out of your league”
Sound good?
🔍Find what you’re missing
Believe me, I know…it can be incredibly lonely in high-caliber kitchens. You sacrifice your social life, family time, and leisure for your work.
What if you could connect with other folks, from around the world, who are also in your same shoes? You guessed it, you can find them inside of Total Station Domination.
(Shoutout to you if you’ve been frustrated by not being able to find like-minded people who want to improve at work or school…I know the feeling)
What’s included in the course? 👇
Total Station Domination programming is split up into 3 sections, all designed to “bucket” different sets of skills that are critical for professionals to master in order to perform at the highest levels.
They’re custom-designed to maximize learning, teach timeless principles, and give you the skills to stand out.
I didn’t build this curriculum just to “check the box”. I asked myself: “what are the REAL problems that line cooks and folks in a chef-de-partie position navigate on their day-to-day?”
After ruthlessly editing out everything that isn’t practical or adaptable, I’ve never been more proud of this version of TSD 💥
At the core, you’ll get 3 structured sections divided into 25 Modules, along with downloadable tools and templates which include: an Upgraded Prep List, the Night-Before-Prep Worksheet, an OOP Matrix (for tracking dietary/allergy substitutions), and a Reducing-Steps Tracker.
You’ll get 5+ hours of content, with over 25+ tailored modules, and a private Community to connect with other students.
Want live exercises? The Collective and Premium Editions give you access to connect with other students via live, interactive exercises with an instructor to help put these skills to the test. There are 4+ types of live exercise sessions:
Prep List Mastery - Take a complicated and unorganized list of tasks, and turn it into a prioritized, ready-to-crush list 📝
Out-of-Place Prep - Never get flustered by allergy/dietary modifications again!
Marking Your Board - Keep track of incoming orders in a highly effective and adaptable way - no tickets required!
New Menu, No Disasters - When the menu changes, clarity is key. Preview this session below 👇
Plus, these upgraded Editions include access to Group Coaching sessions. Not only do I custom-tailor answers to your specific questions that will help you navigate your career (and avoid costly mistakes), but you get to learn from other industry pros too (on questions you might not even know you had!)
Coaching is INCLUDED on an upgraded Edition of Total Station Domination:
Sound impactful? There’s more…
Click into the Sections to learn more about each one 👇
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Lay the foundation with increased technicality. Module discusses:
Prep List | Automating | Kit Building | Ergonomics & Consistent Variables | Time Frugality | Instruction Following & Delegation
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See changes & execute results, over long time horizons. Module discusses:
Capture Prospective Requests | Night-before Prep | Building in Buffer Time | Marking Your Board | Station Partner Communication | Responding to Feedback | Reducing Steps
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When it doesn’t go according to plan, or when changes arise (ie, the seasons change & so does the menu)…
Advanced techniques & frameworks. Module discusses:
“D.D.F.P.” | Making Better Decisions | Optimizing T.S.D. | Critical Communication | New Menu, No Disasters | OOP Prep | Taking Projects from Others
Alumni Reviews
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Check out students sharing their thoughts (~5 minutes) from taking T.S.D.
Total Station Domination is for…
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…who run a station independently or with a station partner. The course materials are custom designed to adapt to your extensive workflow, and address commonly-encountered obstacles. The time savings, alone, make TSD a win for you…not to mention the decreased stress levels heading into service.
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…who are craving more. I remember feeling misunderstood for being ambitious.
I spent my weekends in culinary school staging at Michelin-starred kitchens in NYC because I was starving for accelerated skill development.
TSD brings that information to you ASAP, so that when you get your first job out of school, the traction you get is immediate and high-impact.
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…who want to train their teams more effectively.
Sure, you know how to cook effectively and run a station, but now you’re in charge of managing others.
TSD lays out the skills that make for a high-performing team, so you can understand the structures behind the skills, and become a mentor to your team.
🤔 Did someone say savings in labor cost?
Build trust in your team, keep standards high, improve communication, and boost your organizational skills.
By the end, you’ll be able to:
I know, this seems small, but how awesome would it be to achieve?
This is one of the most popular goals that students share, and it’s often achievable through just saving 30-45 minutes during your day.
Sure, maybe your day ends up following Parkinson’s Law: the tasks fill the amount allowed to complete them.
But what if that time felt more controlled, organized, and allowed you to actually focus on quality vs “just getting it done”?
Maybe it’s not about you.
Between stagiaires, externs, prep cooks, or station partners, being a better team mate makes you more likely to move up in the brigade and increase the quality of your work relationships.
Creativity comes from space.
If you weren’t constantly playing catch up, you’d be able to observe more, broaden your experience, and connect dots.
Achieve TSD, and you’ll make space for that next great idea to shine.
Think of it like this: you’re investing in these results 👇
✍️ Finally feeling organized with extensive task lists and heavy prep loads
🤝 Achieving effective communication with team members (while gaining respect)
👀 Lasting habits that you’ll use for years to come (versus useless “tactics”)
Meet the Instructor 👋
Hi, I’m Justin Khanna 👊
I’m the one on camera, for every single session, of every single module.
Students who enroll in packages that include coaching and exercises: I’ll be with you to provide direct and personal stories to add context to the lessons from my experience.
Total Station Domination was born out of frustration.
I asked myself:
Why does a solid, foundational set of knowledge in the culinary arts have to cost tens of thousands of dollars?
(If you skip school) - Why does jumping into a professional kitchen not come with its own set of structured lessons?
Why are all of my peers that are running their own restaurants and food businesses crying out that, “good chefs are so hard to find these days!”
How can I turn the catastrophic global pandemic of 2020 & 2021 into an opportunity to acknowledge the current job market, track trends, and forecast where the industry is going, and structure lessons around that reality?
I went to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. I staged at restaurants in New York City, Copenhagen and Chicago, ultimately receiving the opportunity to complete my externship at Per Se.
Post-graduation, I achieved an opening-team, Chef-de-Partie role at a restaurant that would go on to garner 3 Michelin Stars. I worked my way up the brigade at The French Laundry.
I had to learn these skills the hard way: by recognizing patterns, researching how coaches train professional athletes, running experiments myself, reading about performance psychology, and deploying those learnings into real-world situations.
Back then, I wasn’t following a “structured system” or taking a course - how could I? They didn’t exist.
I was just so hungry to progress in a kitchen, and I felt like all I needed was an opportunity to show what I was capable of.
In 2014, I moved to the West coast of Norway and worked at the Michelin-starred Lysverket in Bergen.
Using (what I now call) TSD Skills, I went from Chef-de-Partie to Sous Chef in 10 months.
I would continue managing that kitchen team for over 2 years.
I taught these lessons to my line cooks one-at-a-time, which gave me tons of insight into how these skills can make you a better team mate. Since then, I’ve distilled all of that information into this course, allowing me to share this material:
🌎 Without geographical borders - students from over 8 countries have taken TSD
⏩ 17x faster than “spending a year” working somewhere that might teach you everything included here
💰 For a fraction of the cost of a 4 or 5 figure institutional culinary school
Since then, I Co-Founded a 6-figure-per-year event production company called Voyager’s Table where we produce private events for clients around the world: from intimate 12-course tasting menus, to 200-person gala dinners.
I also advise the virtual, creator-led restaurant brand company, Popchew, in launching food brands across 300 locations nationwide.
To help the next generation, I share a ton of free-to-consume content online to an audience of over 30,000 industry professionals worldwide and host a top-rated podcast for Hospitality Creators.
And I’d be honored to have you as part of Total Station Domination.
Danger Zone!
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Danger Zone! 🚨
Total Station Domination is NOT right for you if:
👎 You’re into behaviors that throw others under the bus to get ahead
👎 You don’t value working hard to reach your goals (AKA: you’re hoping to get a single “trick” or “hack” from this course to solve all your problems)
👎 You’re impatient about progress and think that success happens overnight (spoiler alert: it never does)
👎 You’d rather appear skilled than actually be skilled (ie: you wanna “fake it” ‘til you “make it")
👏 You’re mastered cooking in professional kitchens your kitchen team grows without you there (this one actually deserves a round of applause, well done! 😉)
Danger Zone!
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Danger Zone! 🚨
Save Valuable Time ⏱
What would you do with more of the world’s most precious resource?
You could:
Execute your prep with a 10-40% time savings - in a 10-hour workday, that’s an entire HOUR saved, or 3, 20-minute chunks sprinkled throughout your day to be less stressed, less anxious, and more organized at work. I’ve trained chefs who are able to cut the duration of certain projects completely in half…a 2x improvement on their productivity.
Avoid potential career plateaus where you get stuck in a position you know you want to scale out of - saving an average of 6-15 months of “lost time”. Just do the math on how much that would potentially “cost” you.
Free up head-space to explore leadership opportunities, present dishes you’ve created, or improve your relationships with your co-workers. What would that give you the capacity to achieve?
Speaking of time…
🗓 Scheduling & Sessions
🕒 Course Length: The video content spans 5+ hours. High-performing students find the most success splitting up all of the material across 3-6 weeks. Watch on your own time, and put the skills to use in your work or school context.
📅 Sessions and Challenges 👇
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Every student of TSD gets a minimum of 90 days of access to Challenges inside the Repertoire Pro Community.
Considering you’re taking this course, you’ll have additional opportunities to put them to the test and earn badges inside of the Student Community for completing them.
Examples of challenges: Limit the Hoarder, Hard Conversations, Garden of Inspiration, Mentor it Forward, and 9+ more!
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If you select a course experience that includes Exercises, you’ll get additional practice with the instructor and other students. Each session takes a specific skill and puts it to work with a real-world case study.
Keeping track of incoming orders, coming up with a new dish and then identifying allergy substitutions, delegating tasks to others, and creating a structured prep list were all skills that took me ages to master. To solve that problem, I’d rather just teach you the skills ASAP.
All exercise sessions happen across different time zones and days of the week in a staggered fashion to make sure that regardless of where in the world you live, you’re able to get involved.
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For students that select a course experience that includes Group Coaching, it’s exactly what it sounds like - consider this your private area for Q&A and contextual obstacles that you’re grappling with.
Justin will be live and on-camera with you to help solve your critical problems and coach you through crossroads in your career.
Plus, we record the sessions and share them so that you can benefit from the knowledge that’s shared from the entire student base.
Group Coaching sessions also happen on a staggered, alternating-day calendar so there’s always an upcoming session to look forward to.
Example of our rotating, weekly schedule. Times & days for exercises & coaching change to accommodate both Sundays + Mondays, and multiple time zones. Click or tap to enlarge 🔍
See how TSD Compares
I believe Total Station Domination is the best dollar-for-dollar investment you can make in yourself and your career. If you’re craving progress, here are other alternatives people often consider:
Do you agree? 🤣
One last thing…
If you’re down here, you’re probably thinking about piecing together a free solution. A few of my YouTube videos here, a high-value cookbook there, maybe an impactful stage in a few months.
My 100% honest take? There’s nothing wrong with the DIY route. Many of your favorite chefs – myself included – have created successful cooking careers through good ‘ol “trial & error”.
But I’m guessing that if you’re here, this approach has only gotten you so far. And it’s likely taking you hours to sift through free content or one-off experiences just to find one useful piece of advice that’s relevant to you.
That’s why I created Total Station Domination. Consider it your one-stop-shop.
It’s filled with the steps I took to go from high-school-graduate-from-the-Midwest to running a kitchen in Europe (and yes, I went to culinary school and STILL felt under-educated).
Think of it like this: TSD is everything I wish I’d known as a culinary school student, all in one handy place.
Plus, if you trust the process and follow the steps, you’ll spend less time waiting for the solution to “reveal itself” and more time intentionally moving towards what you actually want…
Smooth service with precise execution
Streamlined prep with actual workflows
A path to leadership positions
The confidence to pursue a raise
Focusing on details vs barely getting through the day
Still on the fence?
Let me introduce you to TSG…
…the Total Satisfaction Guarantee
I can’t guarantee you Michelin stars, 1M followers on TikTok or the runaway business success that the founder of Chipotle had after he decided to do burritos instead of fine dining.
I can, however, promise that if, within 30 days, you aren’t satisfied —
I’ll give you all your money back.
Just email the team at: hello@joinrepertoire.com and we’ll get it sorted out for you. No hard feelings, ever.
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FAQ’s
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Each experience offers different benefits, depending on where you’re coming from. Here’s how I think about it:
Essential Edition - A solid option if you’re tight on time or tend to be incredibly self-motivated. You “just want the material”, and you’ll make it work in your own way. You might ask a question or two in the Student Community, but you also might “lurk” and read others’ posts to gain more insights 👀 I didn’t hold anything back from this tier, but it’s definitely more “solo” than the other Editions 👇
Collective Edition - This is the most popular experience, and for good reason. I’ll be hosting exercises to put these skills to work in a role-play & case-study style environment with other students, live (preview a real exercise video on the Collective Edition page).
If you thrive in team-focused environments or get incredibly motivated from being surrounded by peers, pick this one. Plus, getting access to Group Coaching means you’ll be able to get help on questions you might have about topics outside of TSD (creativity, management, content, branding, recipes, leadership, etc)
Premium Edition - This includes all the bells, whistles and features to skyrocket your success. If you need progress fast, this is the best option available. If you’re new to the industry and want to avoid years of failure, or if you’ve already got experience and want to “go beyond the basics”, that’s why I created this tier. I get to dig into your specific problems and help tailor solutions. Considering I work closely with you and there’s Group Coaching included, I can say this confidently: you’ll become a true savage and incredibly confident in professional kitchens, or I’ll work with you 1-on-1 until you are.
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On average, 30% of course students are made up of culinary school students that enroll in TSD to take as a supplement to their institutional education.
To be honest, the most common issue that arises is that (depending on the school) they can’t start to use the learnings quite yet.
However, considering I share skills from the next logical step in your journey, folks that take TSD during culinary school end up finding traction incredibly quickly once they enter their first job.
In other words: many of the lessons and skills are ones that I wish they taught in culinary school…so if you’re in school right now and you’re “craving more”, it’s kind of made for you 😉
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This course works incredibly well if you’re already working somewhere. Why? Because you can implement the skills right away.
You can spend less time in the “hypothetical” and put the learnings into practice immediately. Plus, if you enroll in a package with coaching, Justin can help you directly with your real-world scenario.
Run into questions during the course?
Make a post in the Student Community! Your learnings help the collective.
Starting a new job soon? Considering you get lifetime access to this course, check back in and see how the updated course materials can help!
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You’re thinking ahead, I like it 🙌
Yes, I recommend including Total Station Domination on your resumé in the “Extracurriculars” or “Continuing Education” section of your resumé.
You can include it in the “Education History” section, however I recommend including context on the course itself. An example might be:
Total Station Domination | Online Course
Completed 2022
Taught through RepertoireWe currently don’t offer any certifications or LinkedIn integrations, but it’s on the roadmap for the future!
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Total Station Domination is organized into 3 sections, with over 25 lessons and roughly 6 hours of content. You also get a workbook full of templated assets and exercise companions to complete as you progress through the course.
You can certainly binge all of the content right away, but because there’s so much information included (distilled from 10+ years of experience), we recommend doing a combination of watching & practicing at school/work so that you can put these skills to use. If done well, this can take 3-6 weeks.
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No worries!
I know working in professional kitchens and life can get pretty chaotic, which is why our course is structured for you to work at your own pace.
Every module is broken into smaller sections which can be watched in just 10-15 minutes each. In fact, students that take a “slower” approach tend to see the lessons “stick” better over time.
Enrolling now makes it possible for you to jump into conversations happening in the Community ASAP, too.
You’ll also have lifetime access to this course, so you can revisit it when you are ready to tackle the materials in your own time, locking in the current pricing for yourself.
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If you find you’re not feeling more confident about how to progress in your career, that’s where the 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee comes in.
If you do the exercises, implement the skills in a real-world environment, and still feel unsatisfied, email my team here: justin@justinkhanna.com and we’ll give you your money back, no questions asked.
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Excellent question! I’m reminded of this quote: “If more information was the answer, we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.” -Derek Sivers
It’s not about the information. In fact, I’ll probably end up sharing the entirety of the TSD course materials, across multiple YouTube videos, over the next 3-5 years.
In fact, I became an expert on this topic through a combination of an expensive institutional education and real world experience…it just took me 8 years to do it.
With Total Station Domination, you don’t have to sort through all the information on your own (or over countless years).
It’s all the steps you need to improve & progress, in the right order. So instead of spending your precious time consuming endless free videos, you can focus your attention on implementing the skills you’ll learn to your own career.
Real talk: what you’re paying for is the course and the community; a group of like-minded folks to do exercises with and to bounce ideas off of.
Think about it this way: what’s the difference between someone who’s been saying they want to get in shape for the past 3 years with no progress or habits made, VS, the person who joins a CrossFit gym and immediately feels accountable to a group?
Yeah, that’s the goal. Make sense? 😉
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Believe it or not, possibly yes.
Many businesses will reimburse tuition for professional development at enrollment or after a course is completed.
Here’s a template for reaching out to your employer about reimbursement.
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Real talk? You’ll see most, if not all of these skills in one way, shape, or form in your career. But just because you see it doesn’t mean you can do it yourself.
For example: pick a high-performer at random, and they might not use my exact Prep List strategy, but I find it hard to believe that they’re not effectively managing tasks throughout their day.
Can you learn these skills on your own, across years of experience? Absolutely.
But if you want to save time by learning from my mistakes, skipping the overwhelm, and avoiding being distracted by the shiny objects you’re bound to come across - then this is for you.
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Absolutely - you’ve got 2 options:
🔘 Purchasing 3 or more seats to TSD in one purchase qualifies for bulk pricing. Same content, community access, and benefits, but discounted for your business. Email justin@justinkhanna.com to with your desired quantity of seats, and we’ll be in touch!
🔘 Request a dedicated cohort (starting at $11,995)- I’ll work with you and your team’s schedule to identify 3 dedicated half-days to deliver the content remotely. You’ll also receive custom-tailored case studies that use your menu and prep tasks for the exercises, so the team gets lessons that align exactly with their day-to-day work. The cohort will pay for itself in time savings (labor cost) over 6 months, or your money back.
Email justin@justinkhanna.com to with your team size, scheduling constraints, and ideal start date, and we’ll be in touch!
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We grant between 5-10% of the last quarter’s enrollment for scholarships.
In order to ensure that opportunities are offered with your context in mind, we ask that you fill out this questionnaire so we can learn more about you.
You will get lifetime access to Total Station Domination content and the Student Community.
Check out more information about different plans here.
I gotta agree with best-selling author James Clear on this one ^^
When’s the last time you had 3 straight months of zero uncertainty?
Is it reasonable to expect you’ll have a completely-predictable next-3-months?
Become better prepared to adapt and approach uncertainty with confidence and systems that you can take anywhere.
Welcome, to Total Station Domination.
