Postsecondary: A Career As A Chef

There are more little jobs that the catering associates must perform. They must know all the diets, do their cleaning jobs within the kitchen, and ensure that all their patients are happy.

For our final team project our group has decided to analyze and look at a Food and Beverage Manager at the Manhattan Country Club. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics in 2014 there were 305,000 Food and Beverage Managers that made an average salary of $48,690 per year. Some of the important duties of the job we found were overseeing employees to hire, fire, and train them. They need to ensure employees are complying with health/food safety rules. It is also important for Food and Beverage Managers to take food and beverage complaints and handle them properly. They also need to schedule staff and assign duties and responsible to each person. A big part of any job is also dealing with budgets and managing payroll. This job entails

In the kitchen, many people were constantly bustling around. For example, sauce cooks were constantly watching soups, boiled meats, and sauces. The pantler was in charge of serving bread and butter. Assistants worked hard to chop vegetables, clean poultry, cut and gut fish, and to ground herbs and spices. Aside from cutting and cleaning, assistants also shredded and grated cheese, strained jellies, and blended sauces.

Executive chef: The executive chef is expected to manage as well as train the kitchen, he must supervise the kitchen team and also come up with strategies for the kitchen to run smoothly. The executive chef must have a minimum experience of 8-10years and should have a good understanding of how to run a kitchen. Other than that he is expected to come up with innovative and new recipes and menu for every season. He will also be responsible for controlling and estimating food cost, wastage and food consumption. He is responsible to know and follow proper nutrition and hygiene standards. He must also keep a log of the time and the payroll records. He is expected to meet the guest if asked for and help them understand a dish or help them decide on a dish if required.

Baking and Pastry Arts Degree at Carteret Community College teaches you the skills for being an employee at restaurants, wholesale/retail markets and bakeries. I might have a interest because I look to cook and home and also eat food. To complete the program you will have to have 65-68 hours of studying but once you complete it you will qualify as a assistant at a bakery, area pastry chef and an assistant pastry chef. You will also get a American Culinary Federation certification.

When I was a little girl nothing was more gratifying than lining all my stuff animals and dolls up with paper and pencils. It gave me great pleasure to stand in front of them and share my intellectual knowledge. I played school for as long as I can remember and that is where the love for my career choice started. When I got older and started going to school I noticed that there were not only normal kids there were also other children who needed extra attention and who were is special classrooms. I started taking an interest in the special education students, so I decided that I not only wanted to be a teacher, I wanted to be a special education teacher. For as long as I can remember, college has always been in my future. After realizing that I wanted to be a special education teacher, I started searching for colleges that fit my career plan. I found that Illinois State University was interesting and has an outstanding Special Education Program. I will be attending Illinois State University in 2016 getting a B.A.Degree in Special Education focusing on Severe & Profound population.

Gordon Ramsay, famous UK celebrity chef, born on November 8th, 1966 in Scotland and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Ramsay had played soccer all through his early life in high school. He endured many occupational injuries during his football career which led to knee injury. Ramsay enrolled at North Oxfordshire Technical College to study courses in Hotel Management when he was 19. He then moved to France in order to learn classic French cuisine after his graduation. (baversa123, student mode, Apr 2012) Being trained with some world-class chef in Paris for 3 years, Ramsay had learned enough knowledge as much as he could

The 5-week apprenticeship in a professional kitchen was a big factor in deciding which school will best prepare me for a career in the food industry. The oppurtunity to work in a professional enviroment excites me because i will be able to put my hard work and training in to action. The hours of training and practice excite me, as I am looking forward to using my talents in creativity and learning techniques from experienced professionals.

The book is highly informative and educational, and as Michael Ruhlman wrote I could feel his learned passion for the craving to become a cook. He did the greater part of the course, both preparing to be a gourmet expert and expounding on it as a writer. Ruhlman learned the fundamentals of cooking stocks, roux, vegetables, and sauces; also, he gained the experience of working the front of the house by waiting tables. Most importantly, he gained the knowledge of the meaning of being a chef to become a leader within the industry. You were expected to know the answers to all the questions in the Culinary Institute of American (CIA), and know why things happen the way they do. As chef Pardus would add, “you better know how to do it” (35).

To explain the responsibilities of a Restaurant Manager, I used my two years experience, where I was a manager at Beirut by Night. A Restaurant Manager must know every position, there is in the company. From cooking a entrée to cashing customers out, because if anyone quits or gets fired it is the managers responsibility to cover until a new worker begins. It also, requires but isn't limited to solving problems between workers

How much do chefs get? In the United States, chef salary is somewhere between $23,000 up to $50,000. This annual average is applicable for novice to sous chef position. For higher chef positions like chief, executive and others, the salary range from $33,000 up to $84,000. The salary will also depend on the degree of education, city of employment and other terms and conditions from the employer.

Culinary training includes training by chefs that know the requirements of working in the kitchen and experience to teach the fellow student. Food preparation is another training that typically involves obtaining, measuring, and weighing ingredients as well as cooking the meal. Preparing food chefs have to ensure their food prep areas are clean and sanitized. Several illness are passed through improper food handing, education in sanitation and proper food handing is necessary to pursue a career in culinary arts Other curriculums are classic French culinary techniques, knife skills, sauce and stock preparation, to identify quality food products and facts products and facts about seasonings. Other training in several of cooking styles from Mediterranean and Latin American to Asian and regional American. A great many things determine the average salary for a chef, you got positions like head chef, sous chef, assistant chef accounts for base salary. It is about location, experience, and the restaurant rating also the rated classification of the

They expect me to be patient, clear with orders, not demanding, and aware of what is going on. I must know what food they just told me was done and where to take it, but first I need to pay attention to hear when my name is called. There is usually more tension between the kitchen and waiters than there is with any other workers. The roles are so different. The kitchen staff usually looks at servers as just wanting to get a good tip, and that we do not care the extremities the kitchen has to go to for us. It is important that servers respect the kitchen staff; they are in charge of the food we will be serving. “Servers, as mediators, need their food when their customers demand it: sometimes this is before the food is ready; at other times after. If servers demand food too early, cooks are stressed; but if they don’t pick up the food on time, the food is poor and the cook seems incompetent.” (Fine 105). This is the most true on Friday and Saturday nights. Everything seems to be more chaotic on these nights, since most people decide to go out. This is good because it brings in more business for the restaurant, but then there are always more unhappy customers on these nights as well. Overall, positive interaction with the kitchen staff can make amazing things happen.

There are a lot of different things that you need to do to become a chef. First, off after high school you need to either go to culinary school or another four-year program and get a degree. Then after that you need to start out slow not just jump to the top. Start out slow like starting out in a restaurant and assist the chef to learn more before you become a head chef. Now there are certain things you must wear when you cook:

Most chefs have to wear a uniform that consists of white pants, a double breast jacket, a hat and a neckerchief. To be a good boss you have to have great leadership and listening skills. It is best that you have a keen sense of