Ken Lorber de The Kitchen
Commemorating the start of its 19th year, The Kitchen calls for a celebration of its dedicated staff worldwide, operating under these most unusual conditions.
“The self-less tasks that our teams internationally have undertaken, in terms of securing safety and health in this Covid-19 era, in order to continue to deliver client’s projects on time, have been heartwarming and I applaud each and every effort made by of our team, resulting in a mostly uninterrupted workflow for delivery. From extraordinary efforts to sanitize our studios every hour, or after every session worldwide, to implementing high quality, at home recording studios that meet our strict standards, our teams have accomplished unprecedented feats, in a very short time,” explained Ken Lorber, president & CEO of The Kitchen International.
He mentioned that The Kitchen has posted an update “Heat Map” regularly over the past 8 weeks, primarily to inform clients of any limits in capabilities at each of their 12 studio locations. “Of course, our translation and subtitling teams, in all locations, are operating as usual. This part of our daily operating procedures has always worked well remotely.”
“It is a bitter-sweet celebration of 19 years. Things have changed greatly in the past two decades. We began with 3 dubbing booths in Miami, and now have 17 fully equipped suites at our headquarter studios, with an additional 30+ suites worldwide, in 12 countries. We moved from tapes to a digital world. We’ve won two Prime Time Emmy Awards for the development of our proprietary suite of software for translation, dubbing and subtitling, and a NAB Award for Best in Show. We’ve grown from a 3-person operation to a global staff of nearly 150 full-time employees, with hundreds of free-lance translators, adaptors, mixers, and talent. Although our focus this year is not on our birthday, it IS on the exceptional efforts of our team to keep The Kitchen strong during this most unprecedented of times around the globe,” Lorber concluded.
