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Michael Lockard
Executive Chef · Author · Culinary Director
The Plaza · The US Open · Metrazur
The Food Cost Formula · 2026
Every dish earns its place twice.
Once in the kitchen. Once on the P&L. Twenty-five years of running rooms that had to be both — now written down. The Food Cost Formula: eight chapters, eighteen working forms, purchase order to plate price.