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Originally posted by PoteMatic
How hard is it to make it into a big resuraunt in a big city? I think that would be an awsome job also and have been looking for the same information.
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That depends.... are you a good cook? Have you worked in a kitchen before? Can you handle the near-inhuman stress of a friday night rush? I've seen people literally reduced to tears because the job was too hard... and this was at Red Lobster, the opposite of quality dining.
Without any schooling and experience, getting into a halfway decent restaurant is impossible. Like I and a few others have said, if you're intersted in pursuing a career in cooking, take any kitchen job you can get and see how you like it.
Up here in Ontario, you have to work 6000 hours (about 3 years, full time) in a kitchen before you can write an exam to get your chef's papers. No self-respecting high-quality establishment would even look at your resume until you have those papers. I don't know how things work elsewhere, but I'd assume they're similar.