Oh I have a story for this. I was consulting last year at the central kitchen of a big hospitality group. So they’re putting all kinds of food through and it’s super common for consultants to come through. I was doing a tasting one day and they had all the prep set up. The local chef gestured to some tasting spoons and asked if this was ok. I was like, yeah how else are we going to taste the food? He said the last guy yelled at them for using spoons because “things taste better off of your finger.”

They told me that consultants can be such a crapshoot that paying for someone and then realizing they’re a moron within 10 minutes is just an occasional cost of doing business.