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There you are watching all the latest episodes of "Iron Chef" , reading Gourmet Magazine and your family went bonkers over your last Thanksgiving dinner and now you are telling yourself; heck, I can be a chef, I know how to cook, it is cool to be a chef nowadays and I'll make a hundred grand a year, is that so? Let's us present to you a good dose of reality with a couple of dashes of real facts. Here's a couple of sobering statistics for you in case you are considering investing in a culinary... Read Full Story

So you've heard Vegas now is a culinary mecca, probably you heard that all the big name chefs are opening restaurants on the strip, sounds great right? sounds fun! and heck wouldn't hurt to add on your resume that you worked with Thomas Keller, right? well..... I would say don't! while Vegas glamor has always succeeded in attracting tourism and dollars it is certainly not reflecting on wages and work conditions for culinary professionals. Hundreds and hundreds of culinary professionals are... Read Full Story

As we all know New Orleans is undergoing a rebuild and revive process, the news are encouraging conventions are back and so are the tourists, but how about workers? well, it seems that culinary workers are not eager to take a jump into the Bayou just yet. So what is the strategy to attract new workers? not a good one... Some restaurants in New Orleans are posting job offers in different markets through "Craigslists" offering "management" positions such as Sous Chef, Chef de Cuisine, and... Read Full Story

This Blog has been created to expose the restaurant industry and the continuous practices that affects culinary professionals impairing them to fully develop and strive withing their chosen field. It is time we start exposing the offenders, the abusers, and the people that crippled our opportunities as Chefs. While the media outlets love to over glamorized our industry in television shows, books and magazines they seldom do the job of helping us expose the reality of this industry. An... Read Full Story