Can you learn anything as an apprentice in a western restaurant?

At present, China's western food industry is developing at a high speed, and the market demand is in short supply, but the professional western food talent resource reserve is very short. More and more young people, seeing employment opportunities and industry prospects, choose to learn western cooking.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to learn western food. One is to find a hotel or restaurant as an apprentice and learn skills while working with a master. The other is to find a regular cooking school and learn from the celebrity chef system.

Being an apprentice to western food and learning from a master is actually a very informal and unsystematic way of learning. As an apprentice, handyman is the main job, and there is actually very little time for real study. Hotels and restaurants are all for profit. Only by unifying time, mood and the actual needs of work can the master teach a little cooking. To reach the cooking level of professional cooking school graduates, it takes at least three years, or even longer.

At the same time, the salary of western chef apprentices is actually quite low in actual work, doing the lowest salary and the most tiring work in the hotel. In the early study, the training in cooking school required tuition fees, while the apprentices in western food earned extra wages. It seems that an apprentice is more suitable. However, this is not the case. Generally, apprentices of western chefs can earn about 1500 yuan a month. From the perspective of learning effect and late returns, the students from cooking school are proficient in western cooking after systematic course study in the school and hands-on guidance from famous teachers. Once they graduate, they can become rare chefs in western restaurants in the society, with a general income of more than 4,000 yuan, enjoying a high salary and easy employment, which can be described as "high investment and high return". At this time, compared with the students who graduated from cooking school, the western food apprentices not only have a gap in professional cooking skills and job selection, but also have a considerable gap in salary. The salary is much lower than that of students in cooking school, which is really "low input and low return".

Success comes from a wise choice! In the long run, it is wise to learn western food or find a professional cooking school.