🍽️Surviving Toxic Leadership in the Hospitality Industry
🔥 Setting the Scene: A Hospitality Shift Turned Sour It started like any other day. Uniform on. Smile loaded. Game...
in the mind of the chef
Classic Cookery Techniques: Why Skill Will Always Beat Science
Mastering classic cookery techniques is the true heart of being a chef. Cooking is a craft — not a science...
🍽️ You Can’t Teach Hospitality, Heart Matters More.
🧡 You Can’t Teach Hospitality I've seen enough "suits" in my life to know a couple of things about this...
🌍 Culinary Travel: What It’s Like Cooking in a Foreign Country
✈️When the Kitchen Is Foreign — and So Are You There’s a moment when you realize you’re not in your...
🧑🍳 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...
🧠 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....
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...
