Sunday, August 21, 2011

My new Job

I have a new job! Well, sort of. I have been there for about a month now and wanting to make sure this is the place for me. Here is where I am working.
Fourpaughs I love it here. When I first went to check it out and do a working interview, the chef told me he has a bad temper, he will swear at you, yell, scream and do other things. He said if I could handle that, the job is mine. I told him I could, and the job was mine. He is living up to his promise. He is a former marine and if you have ever seen the TV show, Hell's Kitchen, it's like working for Gorden Ramsey. Now, the chef is not like that all the time, pretty much only when it starts to get busy, otherwise he is a pretty nice guy and really does take care of his cooks.

He spent two years working at one of the best restaurants in the Untied States. This is where he was working: French Laundry. He has also worked for other very high end restaurants. The chef really looks out for the cooks. We get fed a family meal every night, and a basket of fruit is set out so we always have something to eat. It's healthy and keeps us focused. We do a nine course tasting menu, plus ala cart menu. Some things require tweezers to put food on the plate.

We have a daily special, a weekly special, and we change the entire menu every 6 weeks. We buy as much as possible from local farmers and are working on getting everything from local farmers. We have our own herb grow room where we cut herbs as needed. We make our own sausage and bacon in-house. Everything is made from scratch and to order.

Also, the chef likes me so much and because I have a family, he has given me every Thursday thru Saturday off of work. I work 4 days a week, but I can be there up to 10 hours a day. Usually it is 8 hour days, and they do not allow any over time.




4 comments:

Delirious said...

Sounds like a match made in heaven!

satire and theology said...

A very classy looking place.

Interested said...

Congratulations! I'll tell my son to check it out if he has time.

concrete said...

Excellent news Rick. This is fantastic. I had a look at the website, "wow". So good to hear they look after their employees too.