Sadly it's normal.
Cooks at many fine places make no more than cooks at slop joints.
While the good places may have linups to get a job there, there is an overall shortage of kitchen labor, that is becoming increasingly serious. There has also been a total failure in the concept of supply/demand. Cooks wages should be going up in a tight market, but they are actually receeding when adjusted for inflation. and about two thirds of all cooks make sub poverty level incomes. The wage gap between cooks and dishwashers is getting smaller, now only 2 or 3 dollars. |