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I can promise you that 90% of line cooks don't "love" cooking
Then why do they do it? It's not the hours and the wages...
Remember chef, there's a difference between line cooks and chefs. A great chef is rare and people who are line cooks may never understand our passion for food.
Because people have to do something to put bread on the table and cooking in a restaurant is one of the jobs where they'll hire you without qualifications because they're always looking for new staff because people hate it, especially the conditions.
I've been doing this for 30 years, what you're describing is the situation in the front of the house more often than not, but I've mostly worked fine dining so maybe i don't see how it is for those who work, say, at the Cheesecake Factory... How many tv shows are there about front of the house? Every day is sunny? How many are there about BOH? So many I can't even count. But hey I'm sorry your being paid so lousy in the kitchen but what you're describing isn't the job, it's the coercion of capitalism.🏴🏴🏴
Dude nobody has a passion for making fifty Bloomin' Onions a night unless they have like severe autism or something.
BOH is almost always hiring, which makes it a good fallback if you lose your job. The barrier for entry is pretty much, "Can you get here on time for every shift?" There's a reason that kitchen work is one of the most common jobs for people who have been recently incarcerated.