When Chef told me he needed to hire someone else to work in the kitchens I left him to it. I contacted a few agencies and got resumes for him to look through. He did the interviewing and subjected the candidates to tests in the kitchen to see what they could do. He came back to me after a week and told me he’d found the guy he wanted. He was young and talented, and had a few years’ experience working in professional kitchens, starting off with the most menial jobs but soon gathering more skills. I told the agency and arranged the paperwork without ever meeting him, knowing that if he wasn’t up to the job Chef wouldn’t have asked me to hire him.
A few weeks later I got to the restaurant as everyone was setting up ready for the dinner service. The place was empty apart from the waiting staf
