Oh man. Like as has been said above, foodservice is a demanding job. But there are jobs, like the one that I have now
, that make it worth the struggle to learn how to perform.
I graduated from Western Culinary Institute in Portland, opting for WCI over CIA due to housing and social issues, and I was highly impressed. It is a Le Cordon Bleu program, and I personally learned alot from it.
Johnson & Wales is also a great school, I toured their Colorado campus prior to attending WCI, and it was really nice. I am not sure if all J&W are the same, but I was impressed with the facilities, not so much the curriculum.
I would say, just get some information on a few different schools, and see what you are most interested in. That is basically what I did, and even tho I would have liked to goto CIA in NewYork, I feel that the education I received was suffificent.
Have fun, and good luck!