Old Ducky

Running a restaurant in Randburg means working around load-shedding schedules, unpredictable kitchen demands, and the logistics of keeping food quality stable through the day. Old Ducky handles the realities of Gauteng dining — managing prep work when electricity is uncertain, maintaining cold storage integrity, and adjusting service flow when power drops affect cooking times. The braai culture remains central to how restaurants operate here; some nights require rapid pivots to charcoal-based menus when stage 4 hits. Keeping the kitchen humming, maintaining stock rotation, and delivering consistent plates despite infrastructure challenges separates places that survive from those that do. It's the unglamorous work of sourcing, timing, and adaptation that makes a restaurant function reliably in this city.