Today, I worked a catering job. PLEASE! Never try to compare catering to restaurants!
It was a cool job, I'm not gonna lie. I got to help feed the entire Chicago Bears football team. And it was a lot of food (over 800 attending), and it was a lot of fine food. And I stayed on point the whole night. Until the head chef offered me a job.
Which i would have liked, except...
He didn't offer me a position (which meant I had to start at the bottom of the ladder -- though I applied for an advertised Sous Chef job
), less money than I made at my last job, and no chance at being part of the management. Just to be another cog in a wheel full of cogs that don't care. It's just a job to them. And I'm not gonna hate on that, but it's not why I'm in the game. All those commercials during the "Jerry Springer Show" for ghetto cooking schools are cool to get motherfuckers off the street. But those motherfuckers are not COMMITTED! They don't care about food, they just want a job. And I got no time for them okay?
I'm a chef. And a damn good one.
oh, and by the way, working a party of 800 is a cake walk compared to dealing with over 500 covers on a Saturday night at a restaurant!
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