This term is used in kitchens to determine the most creative cooks/chefs with the best artistic view and cultural outstanding for food. Those individuals can push trough all culinary boundaries and they are the most to creat new and inovative food combinations and decorations.
All is a pasion about foods and the ones to do it to extreme, the passionate chefs will be consider the one to succed in their career as a long term.
Avant-Guard individuals will use old and new technology and can apply new techniques which are to improve the overall services and strach culinary thinking to new limits . If you as a manager or as an owner cannot identify those individuals there may be a problem. Please reconsider and hire the most open and willing cooks and chefs to have your culinary department up in trend with the cooking world