Thursday, April 24, 2008
Where our money is going
In a time when everyones finances are tight the culinary has made some strange choices. It seems they have hired people who's only job is to stand in the hallways at service time and tell people when they are out of dress code. I was told by three separate people in the course of getting my lunch today that I had to tuck in the short sleeve polo shirt I was wearing. Not only should the dress code enforcement be the least of the worries at this point in time, but I have yet to understand why schools such as Harvard, Yale and even Vassar have absolutely no dress code, yet are producing students with hundreds of times the professional capabilities of the Culinary. Is it really essential to turn of the air conditioning, cut kitchen production (read: student experience), and instead direct that money toward a position designed to tell us to get into dress code?
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Cut backs and Dress Code Enforcement surely is an odd combination. Here in Bangkok Thailand your appearance is still far more important than actual ownership of knowledge you appear to know. Clean and neat should be what's important not that you know how to tie a tie and wear a suit. At Ma-Sa-Man Cooking School the dress code is simply put on an apron add a hand towel and you're right on!
In South Africa we are strict about candidate chefs dress code, but only when they are in the kitchen. If you walk into a restaurant and spot a sloppy chef, an opinion is formed in your mind, whether you realise it or not. It affects the overall dining experience. SA Chefs Academy is old school when it comes to dress code. The neatly dressed students always seem to have organised minds and do well. Thats telling!
So, Benjamin, I would ask you...why do you stay? If the CIA is as you say, perhaps there is a place that is a better fit for you? I would agree with the person who signed, SA CHEFS Academy....a sloopy chef implies, sloopy, ill prepared food. I am not a chef, but I teach at Duke. We have a very tight dress code for our nursing students...you do not want to get cared for by a sloopy/unkept nurse...and I do not want to the eat the food of a chef that first of all cannot keep himself tidy.
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