View Full Version : Cheshire pub : Chef Wanted "No Snowflakes"
arista
01-09-2022, 12:17 PM
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[Pub advertising for new chef says
'SNOWFLAKES' need not apply as
landlord admits since lockdown
bar has been plagued by 'flaky people
who don't want to work and constantly
want time off'
A Cheshire pub is advertising for
a chef but told 'snowflakes to not apply
Landlord Christopher Darnbrough said
he is after someone 'hard working'
He says he has struggled with
'flaky' people constantly wanting time off]
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/08/31/10/61899987-0-image-a-15_1661937557645.jpg
[The Queen Anne offers homemade
food using locally sourced fresh ingredients]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11164123/Pub-landlord-advertising-new-chef-says-NO-SNOWFLAKES-people-dont-want-work.html
The Slim Reaper
01-09-2022, 12:28 PM
Imagine not wanting to work 70 hour weeks for £25k (or whatever he's offering). Snowflakes :laugh:
Pay your staff what they're worth and provide decent working conditions and his problems will disappear.
Gusto Brunt
01-09-2022, 01:33 PM
Imagine not wanting to work 70 hour weeks for £25k (or whatever he's offering). Snowflakes :laugh:
Pay your staff what they're worth and provide decent working conditions and his problems will disappear.
Totally.
Cherie
01-09-2022, 01:36 PM
Great bit of free advertising for him
I think it is harder to get people to work in hospitality since (a) Brexit and (b) the pandemic due to the work not being strong and stable but weak and wobbly :laugh:
GoldHeart
01-09-2022, 01:38 PM
Imagine not wanting to work 70 hour weeks for £25k (or whatever he's offering). Snowflakes :laugh:
Pay your staff what they're worth and provide decent working conditions and his problems will disappear.
Pretty much this
Cherie
01-09-2022, 01:46 PM
Pretty much this
I don’t agree cheffing in a pub or restaurant means unsocial hours generally working when everyone else is off, money is not always the factor ..the landlord said himself time off was a major factor in staff not staying
take a look at any of the reality shows based in a chefs kitchen. Some of it will be put on for the camera for sure, but underneath all that, its not an environment for the squeamish
Crimson Dynamo
01-09-2022, 01:57 PM
Get a Polish worker
grafters
The Slim Reaper
01-09-2022, 02:20 PM
Unsociable hours is not the same thing as being expected to work way more hours than you are being paid for.
thesheriff443
01-09-2022, 02:47 PM
Time off is not the same as being asked to work more hours
Mystic Mock
01-09-2022, 02:47 PM
Imagine not wanting to work 70 hour weeks for £25k (or whatever he's offering). Snowflakes :laugh:
Pay your staff what they're worth and provide decent working conditions and his problems will disappear.
This tbh.
I get that some workers can be a nightmare, but in this case he should definitely be paying his workers more.
Cherie
01-09-2022, 02:49 PM
Unsociable hours is not the same thing as being expected to work way more hours than you are being paid for.
Do you know this is what has happened? I only scanned the DM article so maybe it is in there somewhere?
thesheriff443
01-09-2022, 02:54 PM
There is a big difference in wages for a chef working in a pub kitchen that in a top restaurant
GoldHeart
01-09-2022, 03:03 PM
I don’t agree cheffing in a pub or restaurant means unsocial hours generally working when everyone else is off, money is not always the factor ..the landlord said himself time off was a major factor in staff not staying
Everything comes into factor, ok maybe some people might need to be reminded how difficult a job is.... when applying to make sure it's the right job for them.
But the salary is still a big part of it , also being treated well. Especially If you are expected to do extra hours. And the chef already has a weird attitude ,if he's advertising by calling potential applicants 'snowflakes' :rolleyes: .
The Slim Reaper
01-09-2022, 03:41 PM
Do you know this is what has happened? I only scanned the DM article so maybe it is in there somewhere?
No, I read the article and couldn't find out any real info, but that industry is well known for expecting chefs to come in early for prep and leave at the end of service. It's standard practice, but it's a bad practice/work habit that is everywhere.
arista
01-09-2022, 03:50 PM
Get a Polish worker
grafters
Yes a Great Polish Chef
could help him.
The Slim Reaper
01-09-2022, 03:53 PM
Yes a Great Polish Chef
could help him.
Anything happen fairly recently to make this way more of a difficult prospect than it used to be? :hehe:
arista
01-09-2022, 03:54 PM
Imagine not wanting to work 70 hour weeks for £25k (or whatever he's offering). Snowflakes :laugh:
Pay your staff what they're worth and provide decent working conditions and his problems will disappear.
Look its good
he is still in Business
I bet he pays a Bonus to his Chef.
Customers
having a top quality meal,
matters in these hard times.
Redway
01-09-2022, 03:55 PM
Imagine not wanting to work 70 hour weeks for £25k (or whatever he's offering). Snowflakes :laugh:
Pay your staff what they're worth and provide decent working conditions and his problems will disappear.
Other than surgery and investment-banking 70-hour working-weeks shouldn’t even be a thing.
But he has got a point about some people being unreliable.
Crimson Dynamo
01-09-2022, 03:56 PM
Anything happen fairly recently to make this way more of a difficult prospect than it used to be? :hehe:
Poles came during the Communist era, escaping from political and economic problems at home.
no wonder
Communism and socialism are other words for stinking corruption
The Slim Reaper
01-09-2022, 03:57 PM
Look its good
he is still in Business
I bet he pays a Bonus to his Chef.
Customers
having a to quality meal,
matters in these hard times.
Wages have been killed for decades. People need realistic incomes not poverty wages to never see their families.
arista
01-09-2022, 04:41 PM
Wages have been killed for decades. People need realistic incomes not poverty wages to never see their families.
Yes Slim
but I respect this owner
who has tried snowflake chefs
and it has failed.
The Slim Reaper
01-09-2022, 05:09 PM
Yes Slim
but I respect this owner
who has tried snowflake chefs
and it has failed.
Putting a snowflake into a hot kitchen is asking for trouble. Basic chemistry tells us that.
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