Flashback: It’s not all fun and games for these young sous chefs who climb up the food chain with self-doubt and bruised egos | via FnBReport
“In college, I didn’t know what course to take, so I went for HRM focusing on the culinary track,” says Queenee Vilar, 23. She went for an internship abroad and was invited to work there, but she missed home and the millennial in her had doubts. “Is this really life?” she pondered. She went home to check out what was new and was disillusioned once more. “The hotel I worked in took me as a trainee, then extended my contract but did not pay me wages.
Her work day chalks up long hours and she sometimes gets by on four hours of sleep. When it comes to managing people older than she is, Vilar reminds herself of what her dad advised: “Think of them as your children. Kung paano kami sa iyo, that’s how you should be with them.” This leads her to finding a compromise with people her senior and putting herself in their shoes.
He likes this job better at the restaurant than with the hotels he has worked in before because he feels that he has broken out of the cookie-cutter mold. “Sobrang daming tao sa hotel, and the hierarchy is stricter. I don’t like the feeling that the food is mass-produced. Here, I get to play with the food. Jordy is also very open to ideas.”
Only in his mid-twenties, Cruz already gets to live what he has set out to do, something people his age would typically just be starting to discover. “I think this is the right place for me. I have been hooked on Filipino food since I was a kid and what we are trying to achieve at Toyo is in line with what I want to happen to our cuisine, where we want to present something that fits into the bigger picture.”At the age of 24, Carlos Villaflor of Vask is already seasoned.
Villaflor doesn’t deny that his job was daunting since he was only 22 when he got promoted and some of the other staff were already in their 30s and 40s. “But I learned not to mind that because I made it a point to come to work and prove to them why I am in this position. I am also lucky that everyone here has a good attitude and we were able to create a good atmosphere.
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