For the Record

Tip Percentage Increase Proposal

Posted by on October 9, 2007 at 10:05 pm

Inflation looks like it will average about 2.5% this year. Which is within the norm. I understand that restaurant prices, someway or another, tend to increase along with inflation as does everything else. Because service people in the restaurant industry are customarily tipped on a percentage of sales, logic would state that if inflation goes [...]

Spanish Words Every Gringo Chef Should Know

Posted by on October 8, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Spanish Chef

Kitchens are becoming the micro-melting pots within cities. In them you will find ethnicities of all types. If you work with someone of non-English speaking decent who speaks no English, you will find it hard and frustrating to even attempt communication with them. Learning a little Spanish, being the most predominate minority tongue of the [...]

The A** Grab – A Kitchen Verse

Posted by on October 6, 2007 at 11:44 pm

For veterans of working in kitchens, this concept shouldn’t be something you have never encountered. Each and every kitchen does have its own, unique, personality. In my experience however, 4 out of 5 kitchens encounter this gesture on a daily basis. You can be a gay, communist, illiterate, Jewish, and of any race and no [...]

Internship – What It is Like to be an Intern

Posted by on October 5, 2007 at 1:29 pm

So you want to advance a little in your culinary arts career. Or you are going to a Culinary school that wants you to do an internship midway or at the end of the degree program. The whole concept of doing an internship is an admirable one. You get to set your feet into a [...]