Rockets

Running a restaurant kitchen in Johannesburg means juggling load shedding schedules, managing delivery routes through traffic that changes by the hour, and sourcing ingredients from suppliers scattered across the city and beyond. Rockets handles the operational side of service in a city where reliability isn't guaranteed—keeping food hot, orders moving, and customers fed despite the infrastructure challenges that would break lesser establishments. The work of keeping a restaurant functioning here involves backup plans for backup plans: generator capacity, pre-prepped components, timing that accounts for blackout windows. What separates restaurants that survive in Johannesburg from those that don't often comes down to operational discipline—and Rockets demonstrates understanding of the practical realities that define restaurant life in Gauteng.