Ready for a Feast?
A Career as a Chef
Why should I become a chef?
Why not? Salary income, no matter how many hours you get a week, you are guaranteed to get a set amount on your paycheck unlike hourly employees. Experience matters the most, work experience in this field is needed more than a fancy degree. School can give you insight of how a kitchen should work and how a chef should be, but does not necessarily mean school can prepare you for the work that needs to be done. The skills that you earn when you become a chef can be used in everyday life, being able to cook good meals for your family and friends to see smiles and enjoyment on their faces will bring a warmth to your heart. Becoming a chef is to devote your time to feed and entertain people who come to your establishment. To be able to make amazing food is a privilege to make people around you happy.
Job Outlook
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Salary
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The Work Place
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Working in a kitchen can be related to retail and entertainment businesses. Open everyday of the week, mostly part timers, and working with managers of the restaurant, not just the chefs’. It is a hot environment. The stoves are on, the ovens are on and everyone’s mood is heated as well. forcing everyone in the kitchen to become constantly active in the work they do whether it’s dish-washing or cooking extravagant meals for a banquet. In the kitchen the pace fluctuates from fast to slow giving an idea of how many people dine at the restaurant you work in. When a rush of orders hit, the kitchen becomes alive and busy with moving bodies and the smell of food in the air.
As an employee in the kitchen you get to know your co-workers better as you’re with them for hours on end in a fast moving day. As the days go by you grow an attachment to the people around you and they start to become close family rather than distant co-workers. At the end of the day, handshakes and hugs are rewards and recognition of a day gone well as customers are content and complaint free.
This is what we do
Often, Chefs:
- organize menus and food on restaurant menus.
- They direct kitchen staff
- Create new and original meals,
- Order product and repair SOME equipment.
- Organize meetings for special events such as banquets and weddings, prepare meals for banquets and weddings.
- Prepare product for storage and meals.
This is how we do it
How can I become a chef?
Reference List
- http://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/chefs-and-head-cooks.html
- http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/639/default.aspx
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUtZzMGctdM
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Johnny Howorth & Anthony Alberto