650260 Restaurant Cooks prepare, season, and cook soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other foodstuffs in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu. The highest pay is usually in the most popular restaurants in the expensive areas in large cities and in large and exclusive hotel restaurants. Chefs in small restaurants often work a split shift for which they get extra pay.
Benefits depend on the how much the restaurant sells.
They most often include meals, professional seminars, health and accident insurance, and sick leave. Other benefits, such as pension plans, interest-free loans, professional dues, and company cars may be offered. For a long time there has been a need for skilled Cooks and even more for qualified Chefs. The work is demanding and the pay has not been very high. In recent years the public has had an increased interest in food and this has brought a lot of attention to some talented and stylish Chefs.