A female chef breathes fire and dishes the dirt
A female chef dishes the dirt, and tells it like it is. Why are chefs leaving the industry in droves? This will give you an idea. It’s not pretty.
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A female chef dishes the dirt, and tells it like it is. Why are chefs leaving the industry in droves? This will give you an idea. It’s not pretty.
To burnout and back is too often a fact of life for chefs and hospitality workers. We need to look for solutions, rather than the problems. We know those already. Burnout needs to stop being a badge of honour, and start being a thing of the past.
Life in a kitchen shouldn’t be all drudgery and hard work. The best and most efficient kitchens work on a light mix of success tools that put the fun back into working life.
“During all the trials and challenges I pushed myself through, so you as a leader must pull your staff through. To do that you give them the right piece of the puzzle to succeed and get to the next level of enhancement. It just takes time.”
Meeting Bill Clinton is a highlight in a career full of them. Christian’s story unfolds as a massive journey, with no regrets. Cheers!
Advice? There’s always something that’s going to happen – that’s not right, every day, but you have to make sure that you know why you’re in it, and you have to know where you’re going with it.
“Collaboration underpins it all. Life is relationship based, the soul of any business”
“In this industry, 30% is really hard and 70% is fun, and the crazy thing is we spend more time kicking ourselves up the arse about the 30% than enjoying the 70%. Isn’t that nuts?”
“Hospitality is very pressured, with hard long hours, and it’s important that you have some sort of hobby or interest outside of your work that burns that stress, gives you an outlet and releases the pressure so you live to cook another day.”
“Probably by next year I’ll be phasing out of the private chef market and into the health and wellness in the corporate world. Funny how life pushes you into a direction, and then you suddenly go, “Oh yeah! Something from 8 years ago set me up on this path!”