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Originally Posted by Greg  The misuse of the title "chef" is intolerable, however....The translation of chef is "chief" and I fail to see what exactly a cook flipping pancakes is chief of, other than the pancakes. Maybe not even those if they're not particularly good at it. |
One of my first jobs out of culinary school, a grocery store hired me to restart their scratch baking program. The bakery/deli manager wanted to refer to me as 'the pastry chef', but I flat refused!
They didn't quite get why. It made me a little sad.