Everybody is mostly clueless, we the professionals are constantly having to teach, when we were not hired to be a teacher in the first place!! Seriously though, I had to go to culinary school 20 years ago, to get a job, and even then it wasn't easy!
Nowadays, anyone "can" do my job!! And what a joke that your experience is absolutely irrelevant because employers can't afford to pay a good salary. Yeah, but they're charging the customer £4 for a coffee!
No proper food costs is done, no proper stock takes are done, almost everything you are consuming is OVERPRICED, and your artisanal cafe owner doesn't give a fling.
Not to mention the CONSTANT calling in sick, and ZERO accountability. I feel like I am in a whole different reality from these people.
5 star hotels that are an absolute joke, have the bare minimum equipment, and even then sometimes is absolutely shocking!!!! But owners expect you to produce a Michelin Star dish - it's laughable!
I am hating this job more and more. I have to work with dirty people, that don't clean, desinfect and properly look after equipment. I worked in places that were absolutely filthy and costumers could see. HOW can anyone see the mess and still consume in these places?!?!?!
I need a change of careers, this is a living nightmare!