Jan 13, 2021 | Food Service
Western Australia is home to many mining sites and resorts where Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) jobs are a popular employment model. FIFO workers are temporary workers flown to a worksite, where they stay for a set number of days. Afterwards, they are flown back to...
Dec 28, 2020 | Food Service
Hiring and firing employees, regardless of industry, are never fun. In restaurants, food catering businesses and food establishments, chefs are prime and critical positions that any shift involving their employments can significantly affect the business. If you find...
Dec 16, 2020 | Food Service
When hiring someone to work in cooking or food preparation, one of the desired traits to look for is having an eye for precision and detail. Executing accuracy in measurements falls under these traits. All in all, these traits play a significant role in guaranteeing...
Dec 2, 2020 | Food Service
Have you ever interviewed a chef or kitchen staff who claimed to be a team player, only to find out later that they aren’t? Some people can pretend their way through an interview and can come up with convincing answers. In hospitality kitchens, you need a team...
Nov 23, 2020 | Food Service
Employee turnover rates in the restaurant industry are very high in comparison to other sectors. Even without the worries brought about by the current Covid-19 pandemic, staffing in the restaurant industry has always been a cause of concern for business owners and...
Nov 16, 2020 | Food Service
When looking for a chef to handle large volume cooking, either as temporary hire or permanent hire, you need to look for someone who knows their way around big batch preparation. But more importantly, someone who knows how to do them safely. It is a great skill...
Oct 15, 2020 | Food Service
Hosting an event and feeding a big crowd is a challenge that most people are more than willing to hand over to Professional Chefs or caterers. Hiring professionals not only ensure that your guests do not leave hungry, and at the same time, they also help you...
Oct 8, 2020 | Food Service
Braising is a method of food preparation where food is cooked slowly in low heat. This method has its roots in French cooking (from the French word “braiser”) and is one of the basic French cooking techniques that every Chef should know. Aside from being...
Sep 30, 2020 | Food Service
One of the skills that you need to look for when hiring Chefs is their skill in heat control – how the right level of heat is applied to achieve the desired cooking outcome. In the previous article, I wrote about the use of low heat sautéing and why Chef’s...
Sep 23, 2020 | Food Service
A Chef’s skill in controlling heat runs a spectrum, ranging from the highest heat to the lowest heat. Each cooking technique has a specific purpose of achieving the desired cooking outcome. Skilled Chefs know that for each method, you can yield a considerable...
Sep 15, 2020 | Food Service
How does a Chef create fork-tender foods rich in flavour? He does it by doing one of the most fundamental technique in cooking – simmering. Simmering is done by raising the temperature of the liquid where either meat or vegetable is cooked into, to just below...
Sep 9, 2020 | Food Service
What’s a not so secret to faster but flavourful cooking? Parboiling. It is a method of precooking food items by putting them into boiling water and cooking until they begin to soften. However, the food item is removed before they are fully cooked as intended in...
