08/30/2026
I THINK IT'S TIME TO ASK FOR SOME HELP.
When I started this thing, it was basically a weekend operation. Fire up the smoker, make some BBQ, load everything up, go sling food somewhere, and do it all over again the next weekend. I didn't have some giant master plan for what this was supposed to become. I enjoyed doing it, people seemed to enjoy what I was making, and every time an opportunity came along that made sense, I tried it.
Somewhere along the way, this little weekend BBQ thing became something much, much bigger than I ever expected it to.
The food trucks got busier. Catering continued to grow. I needed more space, more equipment and eventually a real kitchen and smokehouse. Then Green Bay happened, which is where Teddy came into the picture and helped take on an entirely new side of High Kaliber. Now there's a restaurant operating four days a week with another day of prep and cleaning, a kitchen and smokehouse crew starting around 6AM almost every day, food trucks bouncing around to events, catering mixed in throughout all of it, and now this completely new adventure at the brewery in Appleton that's already operating four days a week and will eventually become something even bigger.
Sometimes I look at all of it and genuinely wonder how the hell this happened.
For a long time I had the mentality that I could just do everything myself. If something needed to get done, I'd figure it out. If there was a problem, I'd fix it. If I needed another 20 hours in a week, I'd somehow find them.
But the truth is, it's not just me anymore, and it hasn't been for quite some time.
I've got a REALLY solid team around me already, and I want to make that VERY clear. The people who are here are incredibly good at what they do, and none of what High Kaliber has become would be possible without them. There are people showing up early in the morning, people running kitchens, people prepping, cooking, cleaning, serving customers, working events and doing a hundred things behind the scenes that most people will never see.
The problem isn't the people I have. It's that I simply don't have enough of them.
As much as I still like to think I can do everything myself, I can't. And more importantly, High Kaliber isn't going to become what I believe it can become by asking the same handful of really good people to just keep doing more and more.
This thing needs a bigger team.
And when I say I'm hiring, I'm not looking for one specific type of person or one specific schedule. I need people of all shapes and sizes, with all kinds of availability. Maybe you're looking for a legitimate full-time position and want to become a major part of what we're building. Maybe you want 15 or 20 hours a week. Maybe you're looking for a few shifts around another job. Maybe you want to be someone we can call when we have a giant catering job or food truck event and need extra hands.
Maybe you're great in a kitchen. Maybe you're great with customers. Maybe you're insanely organized. Maybe you're good at cleaning and keeping things moving. Maybe you've never worked in BBQ in your life but you're reliable, willing to learn and aren't afraid to work.
There are a LOT of different ways someone can fit into what we're doing.
I also think it's important to explain who we are, because High Kaliber definitely isn't for everybody.
We're bold. We're loud. We're witty. We're sarcastic. We're a little out there. We talk some s**t, make fun of each other, laugh at ourselves and don't take ourselves too seriously. We move quickly, make decisions quickly and aren't afraid to completely change something when we realize there's a better way to do it.
We're also still growing up as a company. We're building processes and procedures while we're operating. We're figuring out how to make things more efficient, how to communicate better and how to add structure to something that grew much faster than I ever expected it to.
But there's one thing that isn't up for debate, and that's our standard.
We hold ourselves to an incredibly high standard when it comes to the product we put in front of a customer. That has been important to me since day one and it always will be. I don't care how busy we are, how long the line is, how many tickets are hanging or how much we have going on behind the scenes, if our name is on it, it needs to be something we're proud to hand to somebody.
We're still learning how to become a bigger and better company, but we're not learning what our standard is. We know what that is, and the people who work here are expected to care about it.
So yes, sometimes things around here can be organized chaos. Sometimes plans change. Sometimes an idea we talked about Monday is something we're doing Friday. You need some thick skin, you need to be able to take a joke and give one back, and you need to understand that sometimes the answer to "whose job is that?" is simply ours, because it needs to get done.
If you need an extremely structured environment where every day is predictable, everything is laid out months in advance and nobody ever gives you a hard time, this probably isn't going to be your place.
But if you work hard, have a personality, take pride in what you put your name on, can roll with the punches and like the idea of being part of something that's still being built, you might fit in here really well.
I'm incredibly proud of what High Kaliber has become. I'm proud of the team I already have, and I'm incredibly thankful for the amount they've carried to get us here.
Now I need to add to them.
I don't need one person to come save the day. I need more good people surrounding the really good people who are already here, because I genuinely believe there's still a whole lot more we can build.
So whether you're looking for full time, part time, a few extra hours, weekend work, event work or something in between, fill this out. Tell me who you are, what you're good at, what you're looking for and where you think you might fit.
I don't necessarily know exactly who I'm looking for. I just know I need more good people.
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