My first project 'Fresh pancakes in a kitchen'

Hi blenders,

Here is a post of my work in progress of my first project, fresh pancakes in a kitchen scene. Its a concept, would be nice to have some comments now instead of learning afterwards what could have been done better :).
I’m new to CG and my goal is to create a nice architectural render one day. The reason I choose this scene is because there are a lot of different materials to practice with. So far I learned (in other models, not shown in this picture), modelling, basic shaders, UVmap and texturing, HDRI lightning, use of portals, render performance and some workflow.

So far I did the concept modelling, collected reference photos and set up the camera.

I would like to learn about render layers (fore- and background, render in steps), compositing and workflow tips to work efficient.

I would like to hear some thoughts and any advice is welcome!

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render of one of the items in the scene

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