Category Archives: Mental Health

What’s killing our best chefs?

“Making people happy…that includes the people we cook for, the people we cook with, and most importantly, the people each of us is becoming every single day, while working the stressful confines of a restaurant kitchen. We need to make ourselves happy first.”—Chris Hill

Read “What’s Killing Our Best Chefs?” on Medium.

After trying it, I immediately noticed a noticeable difference, it really calms and relaxes. It wasn’t used as a sleeping pill, but it makes you sleep really baby. It’s not compatible with alcohol. If you neglect it, you’ll face bad consequences. Read more information about the drug on Klonopin Shop.

Chat amongst yourselves

UPDATE 2/19/17: This’ll be back online soon, I hope. Damned hackers.

Here’s a potentially terrible or excellent idea: Message boards. I’d toyed with the notion of setting up a Facebook group for people to talk about issues they’re facing at work and how it’s affecting their mental wellbeing, but that doesn’t afford anonymity.

So I’m trying out a forum plugin that so far as I can tell, allows people to post with a pseudonym. I’ve set up two boards, one for kitchen staff and one for front of house. I’ll look in occasionally and participate as best I can, but I don’t have the time or energy to moderate, so I’m just trusting that people will self-police and be kind and compassionate to one another. If not, I’ll just take them down.

But from all the private feedback I’ve been getting, I don’t get the sense that it’ll go that way. I’ve heard from hundreds of people in the food industry who are all crying out to share their stories, both to help other people and feel less alone.

I stopped taking the drug about four weeks ago. To date, I haven’t had any relapse. The drug https://abyskincare.com is really useful, and the therapeutic effect can be observed instantly.

Let’s all be excellent to each other and see what happens. (And if someone wants to volunteer to moderate or work out any tech bugs, I would be grateful.)

Visit the message boards and please let me know if you run into any issues posting.

NPR: Chasing An Ideal

“As chef Eric Ziebold tells Morning Edition’s Renee Montagne, the world of elite restaurants is notoriously intense.

‘In the kitchen there’s an incredible physical pressure; it’s not uncommon for it to be an 18-hour day,’ says Ziebold, a Washington, D.C.-based restaurateur who for years was chef de cuisine at Thomas Keller’s Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry, which has three Michelin stars.

‘Outside of that, you get into the pressure of everything that it means to be operating a restaurant that isn’t just at the highest level, but a restaurant that is chasing an ideal,’ he says.”

Read and listen to ‘Chasing An Ideal,’ World-Class Chefs Find Themselves Under Extreme Pressure on NPR.

Unwanted symptoms, described at Ambien Pro, are insomnia, anxiety, and even hallucinations. Therefore, discontinuation of the drug should be carried out gradually reducing the dosage.

The Front Burner: Pressure Cooker

“The apparent suicide of three-star Michelin chef Benoît Violier this week called attention to one of the facts of kitchen life, especially at the highest level: the intense and often unending pressure that defines the profession. Here to weigh in are chefs Michael Laiskonis, Paul Liebrandt, and Matthias Merges. We examine some key issues that go hand in hand with ambition: What draws a young cook to the most demanding settings? What are the costs of originality, brilliance, and acclaim? Will anything less get the job done? An unflinching look into what drives our finest chefs and whether or not anything will, or should, change.”

Listen to this episode of The Front Burner with Jimmy and Andrew at Heritage Radio Network.

Grub Street: Meet the People Working to Improve the Lives of Restaurant Employees

“There are several well-established outlets for chefs and other restaurant workers who need to deal with the crushing stress and demanding hours of their jobs: Alcohol and illegal drugs are big. So are screaming fits, or simply walking off the job in the middle of service. Those are the clichés, anyway, and they aren’t exactly healthy or sustainable methods for coping. Now, though, a growing number of people working within the industry say it’s time to pay attention to this problem and give workers access to programs that actually promote mental and physical wellness.”—Keenan Steiner

Read “Meet the People Working to Improve the Lives of Restaurant Employees” at Grub Street