Everyone has had the dream of cooking a grand meal for all of their friends and family and every body applauding their work and flavors. Truthfully, I know very few people who can pull this off. You need to know more than just how to cook a roast, or how to bake a potato. You need to have some awesome cooking skills, organizational skills, and a good tongue.

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Photography: Cunard QM2. Brittania Restaurant by Tom Mascardo

Being a Service Manger in a restaurant requires a person to make very many decisions at work every day.  Decisions must be made for everything from: "What to do if a server doesn’t know the menu entirely?" to "Why do my bussers keep grabbing glasses with their fingers on the inside of the glass when I keep telling them not to?".

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Photography: The Kitchen by Rick

The UnClad Chef Job Board is here!

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Photography: The Zen Water by Dark Patator

Ask almost any Chef when they first became interested in food, and the answer will almost always date back to their child hood. Some how some way a passion for working with ingredients to create something special was seeded in a Chef’s childhood. For me, it was the Gourmet Glass of Water.

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