Posts by ZEN!!!

It's funny. One of the cooks at my restaurant and I were talking about Chef's pants the other day. He said he was about to order some from Chefwear when he saw how much just three pairs would cost him. So instead, he went to TJ Maxx...

Hey, I was in your same position a few years ago. 25, BA in English, etc... As far as I know, a lot of culinary schools have rolling admissions, meaning that you can apply whenever for their earliest start date. I was looking...

I work in Cambridge, just outside of Boston, but still on the subway lines. The guys in my kitchen make anywhere from $11-13/hr. I'm currently part time and I make $10/hr. I know that at some of the more prestigious restaurants, some...

Wow, I didn't expect to see so many responses. Thanks for all of your input. I've been researching insurance and I've found that I can get basic medical & dental for $149/month, which would work out to just under $40 per...

It's been so long since i've been on this forum... It was nice checking on how this topic progressed and hearing what Columbus has gotten himself into. I figured that since I'm about to hit a personal milestone, I'd update a bit. So...

Hi, I've been cooking the line for a little more than a year an a half part time (though I have usually averaged around 36 hours/wk)in addition to working a day job. I'm about to make the leap into cooking full time and I have a few...

So any of y'all workin' yet?

I graduated college in 2000 with two BAs and have worked in the financial industry for the past five years and decided in December that I wanted to move from the financial services industry to the food service industry. When I...

Hah, I know exactly what you mean. I've been looking at culinary schools over the past four or five months. I, too, had it narrowed down to FCI and CCA. I went to visit FCI and I absolutely loved it. The faculty & staff...

Hi, My personal recommendations are The California Grill in the Contemporary Resort, and Flying Fish and Spoodles in the Boardwalk Resort. I've been going to Disney World since I was 4 years old. It was the only place that my...