Interviewing for a New Chef
Posted by Van on November 17, 2009
As a restaurant owner it is very difficult when one of your chefs decides to leave and start a restaurant of their own. But truth be told, if they are any good, it should be expected at some point, but a loss is still a loss.
So, after our head chef decided to go out on his own, I find myself having to do interviews today to replace him. I am not much of a fan when it comes to job interviews, so thankfully it isn’t something that I do a lot of.
Before any job interview, it is customary to go through the resumes to weed out the bad applicants. I took the better part of Sunday afternoon to go through my stack of fifteen odd resumes. There were about five that definitely had to go which left me ten resumes to go through.
I was particularly interested in the applicant that had attended one of the most prestigious culinary arts institutes in the country. I had high hopes that he would be the final pick, but I wanted to make sure that his personality would be a good fit for our restaurant as well.
Needless to say, this interviewing process should be interesting – hopefully I will have a good idea of who the new head chef will be by the end of the day.