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Hours per week

Poll Results: How many hours per week do you work at your restaurant?

 
  • 7% (3)
    Less than 20 Hours
  • 12% (5)
    20-40 Hours
  • 51% (20)
    40-60 Hours
  • 28% (11)
    Over 60 Hours
39 Total Votes  
post #1 of 11
3/19/03 at 11:36pm
Thread Starter 
How many hours do you work per week at your restaurant?
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post #2 of 11
3/20/03 at 2:28am
Good poll. Will be interested to see the results.
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post #3 of 11
3/20/03 at 4:46am
What about non-restaurant chefs?
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post #4 of 11
3/20/03 at 4:54am
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
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post #5 of 11
3/20/03 at 5:07am
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!!!'
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post #6 of 11
3/20/03 at 4:36pm
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.
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post #7 of 11
3/20/03 at 5:25pm

Here's an add on......

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
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post #8 of 11
3/20/03 at 5:34pm
It's an old saying, but, I can check out but I can never leave. So 168
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post #9 of 11
3/24/03 at 2:16pm
Panini,are you an Eagles fan,as this"old saying"is a variation of a line from the song Hotel California?
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post #10 of 11
3/25/03 at 10:52pm
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
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post #11 of 11
4/19/03 at 7:59pm
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.

D
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