Business for Chefs

How should chefs learn business? You would think that this most important of lessons was handed down from day one in kitchens across the land. But, it doesn’t happen that way. Indeed, trying to learn business as a chef is very hard.

“Going from sous chef to chef/owner nobody teaches you the price of things, VAT or tax,” he explained. “You work in a kitchen for 10 to 15 years learning just to cook. I sat with my business partner for the first profit-and-loss meeting for two hours having no idea what he was talking about.”