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View Poll Results: How many hours per week do you work at your restaurant? | |
Less than 20 Hours
|     | 3 | 7.69% | |
20-40 Hours
|    | 5 | 12.82% | |
40-60 Hours
|    | 20 | 51.28% | |
Over 60 Hours
|    | 11 | 28.21% |
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03-20-2003, 01:36 AM
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How many hours do you work per week at your restaurant?
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03-20-2003, 04:28 AM
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Good poll. Will be interested to see the results. |
03-20-2003, 06:46 AM
| | ChefTalk Supporter Culinary Experience: Professional Pastry Chef | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: norwalk, CT USA
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What about non-restaurant chefs? |
03-20-2003, 06:54 AM
|  | Registered User Culinary Experience: Professional Chef | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: new england
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being happily un-employed(retired at43?) i entered less than 20, when i was working it was always 40-50 hrs. per week. sometimes more, as when i was working 2 jobs about 4 years ago- then it was 57-60 hrs. and i was very tired and extremely
_itchy. talk about burn out.
kat |
03-20-2003, 07:07 AM
|  | ChefTalk Moderator Culinary Experience: Professional Chef | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Fond du Lac, WI
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I very happily hit 40-60. One of the few good things about the Country Club is that I do get to work a pretty decent schedule. It may be 6 days most weeks but I still manage to average only 45-52 hours per week. Can't say that about some of the high end places I worked at, where 60-70+ hours per week was not uncommon. Heck, during one opening, I pulled over 30 days straight and averaged 85+ hours each week. The sick thing is that part of me misses that!! The other part says 'never again!!!' |
03-20-2003, 06:36 PM
|  | ChefTalk Moderator Culinary Experience: Professional Caterer | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: St. Louis Mo
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weekly....18-25 hours PC, catering who knows could be another 10 or so....then contracts, phones, foraging, teaching....too random to know...and then when events come I'm out of pocket for awhile. |
03-20-2003, 07:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Michigan
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I've been in the business for 23 years, 15 of which as a chef.
Here's my add on: Salary or Hourly?
My position, hourly! I will never work salary as an executive chef again...... It's slavery!
Eric www.RestaurantEdge.com |
03-20-2003, 07:34 PM
|  | Registered User Culinary Experience: Owner/Operator | | Join Date: Jul 2001
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It's an old saying, but, I can check out but I can never leave. So 168 |
03-24-2003, 04:16 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by panini
It's an old saying, but, I can check out but I can never leave. So 168 | Panini,are you an Eagles fan,as this"old saying"is a variation of a line from the song Hotel California? |
03-26-2003, 12:52 AM
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well hmm seeing as i am merely a line cook and it is a new business i do 35+ (this is my second week in so i can't average). I work the grill closing due to my ability under pressure, as time goes and i get back into the swing of things i expect to be in the kitchen at least 15 hours per day (between culinary school, home and work) every day...i think for most people in the industry that i have met it is a labor of pure love |
04-19-2003, 09:59 PM
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I am the Exec. Chef so with Eric's quote " ...I will never work salary as an executive chef again...... It's slavery! ..." I do way more that 60 ++++++++++ hrs.
But with that said I love my job. would not change it for any other JOB.
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