The pantry is the next step in developing your knowledge of food, as well as the technical skills you need to be successful. This station requires that you handle and prepare menu items from scratch. Salad, appetizer and dessert preparation forces you to use knife skills, read and follow recipes, develop time management skills, multi-task, […]

Washing dishes is one of the most basic and important tasks in the restaurant kitchen. It is a starting point for a lot of people in this field; some people will always be dishwashers and some take advantage of this opportunity to learn all they can about how a kitchen runs and were their […]

Becoming a chef is a serious commitment to hard work in an industry that requires you to work long hours, involves high levels of stress, constant deadlines, public and internal scrutiny. If you have any illusions of some glamorous lifestyle and loads of money, you are in for a rude awakening. The kitchen is a […]