Easy Come Easy Go

Well what a week!! Just the one wedding and only a la carte to deal with, things were not too bad. Time to attend to those 2008 function and conference menus. Also time to do those extra little cleaning jobs that often get missed.

With our search for staff at a premium and little response to most advertising, it was a great bonus to have walk through the door an Aussie born chef with plenty of experience in many good places, like Berardo’s and Bistro C in Noosa and with a recent 10 month stint with Gordon Ramsay in London, it was a serious shock to the system. Without hesitation he was given a start, just our luck that we were quick off the mark as we are not the only restaurant in the area looking for Chefs and he having handed out his CV to many. Friday came and my new chef started. He settled quickly and found no problem in orienteering himself in the kitchen. Not all what you read on a resume is always clear and you need to read between the lines. I hadn’t expected anything else to tell the truth. The evening went well and after a cold beer at the end of service we parted. On a high I went home to enjoy a good nights sleep with the great plans to up the anti in the Beaches Kitchen.

Only to be brought back to ground with a hammer. A call from the Boss to inform me that the new chef is currently on his way to Sydney to work at Aria for Matt Moran. Great, excellent, well done, fantastic, were not my selection of words, but we will not repeat that. So after just one night work he’s gone, easy come easy go.

I guess you can’t pass up a chance to work at Aria with Matt Moran, I wouldn’t, well maybe at Beaches with John Mundell……………….Anyway the week ended on a good note with possibly a new chef to start next week. Also my review from Michael’s Dinner coming soon.

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