Hospitality Influencers

At the start of your career, you want to listen, watch and write everything down, and take pictures or make drawings!

A picture tells a thousand words, so just imagine how much information can be sent in a running video.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. I didn't realize this until I began to reflect on my past experience of a few decades in the hospitality sector.

It’s an extremely common thing these days for a chef to get somewhat hot, and then all of a sudden that chef is opening up a restaurant everywhere.

Communication is the KEY to anything! Why? It is the most important skill for living in this life.

Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, TripAdvisor, Pinterest, etc.) has overtaken the "sword and the pen" in terms of information dissemination. It is as useful and conversely as dangerous as the sword and the pen.

In any restaurant that has a reservation system, no-shows are inevitable. However, there are also lots of steps you can take to reduce them drastically! We have spoken to four experienced chefs about their thoughts on reducing no-shows, and here is their advice.

Being a head chef means you have lots of responsibility in the kitchen. You're responsible for getting food orders out on time, ensuring each dish is made to a high standard, and the other chefs are working well together.

The word 'chef' is not only about wearing a nice white jacket (or one of the trendy coloured ones preferred by many) with your name on it and putting a set of ingredients to create a dish.

What did I wish I knew when I started my career?