Iv been working in the restaurant business for 5 years, my first kitchen was a nursing home kitchen(3 years of nursing home experience) We can all agree that unfortunately nursing home food is depressing. I fell in love with the fast pace energy of a restaurant, with the food in all its beautiful glory when someone served it with pride.

I have worked with some amazing people. I have learned a lot more from the difficult people that Iv worked with.

I’m posting because I purposely made my chef look bad today at work. It’s Sunday and we are a small restaurant that gets lucky with events and catering. It’s slow, chef and other cooks are just chilling on their phones. I take it upon myself to find busy work because I am that kinda person. They finally felt bad and started to participate in the busy work. They stopped once they thought they were finished. That’s when I went ahead and cleaned the walk-in and sharpened all the knifes. That’s when the manager walked in and noticed the activity. I kept busy. When our very small dinner rush came, I asked the chef were I could help. I was completely ignored. I stood there a couple seconds, was still getting the cold shoulder. So I removed myself. I’m not going to beg someone to teach me or to have patience to teach me.

Luckily corporate chef sent some material that should help me. I’m going to hobby lobby, gonna buy a little binder and make my own build guide. I will be slow at first, you know flipping through the pages finding the right way to plate it but it will be worth it. I’ll get to say I built it myself!

I hate that we work with such big egos that make the job hard when it should and could be fun. We get to work with some great food in the restaurant business. I wish more people had the patience to teach this beautiful craft we can all participate in.