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On The House: What Does It Mean To Be A 'Corporate Chef?' Less Cooking, But Still Plenty Of Food

90.5 WESA | By Larkin Page-Jacobs

Published June 17, 2015 at 7:55 AM EDT

Bill Fuller, corporate chef for the Big Burrito Group, photographed at Eleven in the Strip District.

Bill Fuller is the corporate chef for the big Burrito Group, a restaurant company that began in Pittsburgh two decades ago. Fuller grew up in Dubois, a small town a couple hours northeast of Pittsburgh and pursued degrees in chemistry before learning about the upstart restaurant group. He joined the team as a chef and today big Burrito has a portfolio of 5 specialty restaurants, 13 Mad Mex restaurants and a catering company.

In this segment of On The House, Larkin Page-Jacobs visits the kitchen at Eleven in the Strip District to ask Fuller what exactly the corporate chef job entails.