Tag: work abuse

  • Thank you, chef, may I have another

    Thank you, chef, may I have another

    The more and more I work in the restaurant industry the more I am dumbfounded by the unprofessional and down-right abusive behavior that goes on and is accepted by everyone as the way things are. Why is it acceptable for a chef to make abusive and even racist or sexist jokes, yell, or even throw…

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  • Help Wanted: Executive Chef

    POSITION SUMMARY This position provides experienced culinary leadership, training and support to the BOH (back-of-house) staff while maintaining fiscal management over the entire Restaurant. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Leadership, Training and Human Resources Possess the exceptional patience to train, retrain and retrain again BOH staff on culinary…

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  • The Tourist

    For 15 years I sat at a desk in an office. Working hard was nine or ten hours a day because of a work event or dinner, and I would come in late the day of or the day after to make up for it. I encouraged my staff to too because, after all, our…

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  • Chef is always right, and yup, he fucking is

    Chef is always right, and yup, he fucking is

    I didn’t actually mention after my Green Than Neon post that the head chef offered me a job. I’m pretty impressed with myself that after my first night in the back of the house that I got hired! I shouldn’t get so cocky though, because he said it was not so much my prowess with a whisk,…

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