Eight Myths About Working In a Restaurant

8. It\'s all about the after party. Seriously, after a busy night of cooking 200 plus covers (people served) the last thing you want to do is have to go to a bar with your greasy hair and clothes that smell like a deep fryer.

7. You get to eat whatever you want. Not true at all, in fact in some places if you are caught eating the good product then you are out of there. Restaurants are all about making money and if the staff is eating the profit then there is no money to be made. Also, after making that dish 50 times in row, the last thing you want to do is eat it.

6. You thought you could see the faces of the patrons. Think again! You are stuck in the kitchen. You live in the kitchen.

5. You get to be creative. What you have to realize is that the menu was probably put into place before you began working there. Don\'t think you can just come in and tell the chef that such-and-such is wrong with their menu. You will get no brownie points for that stunt.

4. I\'m going to be rich. Unless you have been in the game for a while don\'t expect to get paid. If you work at an extremely upscale restaurant most cooks come in a little early and work for free, worst of all it is usually expected that you will do that.

3. It\'s easy, all your doing is cooking some food. If only it was that simple. Most cooks arrive 3-4 hours before the restaurant opens to do all the prep that goes into each dish. You have to realize that usually each dish comes with at least three items on the plate plus the sauce and the garnish. Prep is the key. And I don\'t think you want me to talk about all the clean up.

2. All Chefs scream and carry on like Gordan Ramsey. While you can work with a chef that yells A LOT, they usually don\'t end up throwing the food right back in your face. I think most chefs have realized that those antics don\'t really work on the younger generation of cooks

1. It is so glamorous. Working in a kitchen is anything buy glamorous, unless you are the executive chef who rarely ever gets in the trenches and cooks with his cooks.

At this point you may be asking yourself, Why does she do it? Why does she put up with all this torture? First of all I love working with food and there is a little creativity. Call me masochistic, but I love the stress and the speed of the kitchen. I love that everything has to be put together in a mater of minutes. And I love, love, love that at the end of the day I know that I have accomplished something. I see the tangible evidence in front of me completed and patrons satisfied.

I started my culinary career as a child cooking in the kitchen with my dad. He loved food, loved to cook and loved to create, and so the seeds were planted. After college I wasn\'t sure where to go from there. I tried teaching and didn\'t like the academics, let me teach the fun stuff. Then I sold my soul and went to work in an office, I quickly learned this was not for me. All the while I knew there was something better for me. Something that would get my creative juices flowing and give me the purpose in life that we all desire.

From there I attended culinary school and proceeded to gain as much knowledge of the culinary industry as I could, still feeling that there was something even better out there for me. This is when it hit me. I had entered the culinary industry for one simple reason - I wanted to create food that would make people happy. After working in several upscale restaurants, I realized that I didn\'t get the chance to be very creative and, more importantly, I didn\'t get to see the looks on the customer\'s faces. Thus I created http://www.cookingrevealed.com

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