🧠 Cliques in hospitality: The Unspoken Hierarchies That Divide Us
"We’re like family here." If you've worked in hospitality for more than five minutes, you've probably heard that line. It...
Confessions of a Chef
🥵 The Day I Didn’t Eat for 12 Hours
⚠️This Shouldn’t Be Normal — But It Is It’s 11:30 PM. I just finished wiping down the pass. My stomach...
🧑🍳 Chef vs Cook: What’s the Real Difference?
👨🍳 What’s in a Title? Chef vs cook—a debate that sparks more fire than a flambé pan in a rush-hour...
📉 Why Some Restaurants Fail (And What You Can Learn from It)
Why do so many restaurants fail—even the ones that look great on the outside? That’s a question every chef and...
🔥Inside the Fire: The Life of a Chef in the Escoffier Era
Today, we throw around words like “brigade,” “saucier,” or “mise en place” without thinking. But those sacred pillars of our...
🧠 How ChatGPT Is Becoming a Chef’s Secret Weapon in the Kitchen
Being a chef is not just about cooking — it’s about managing chaos, solving problems on the fly, staying creative...
Why I Took a Pay Cut to Escape Hospitality Burnout
You know that saying, “Money isn’t everything”?Well… I used to laugh at it — until I stopped. I used to...
When Fewer Hands Cost More: Hospitality’s Global Staffing Crisis Through a Cypriot Lens
Welcome to the 2025 version of hospitality, where kitchens run half-manned, room service crawls, and “fully staffed” is a myth....
Micromanagement in Kitchens, a morale killer.
You know what drains the soul out of a kitchen faster than a clogged fryer on a Saturday night? Micromanagement....
Climb the Ladder on Your Feet — Not on Someone Else’s Shoulders
"You don’t earn your place in the kitchen by stepping over others. You earn it by showing up, every damn...
