From cooking on luxury yachts to surviving in Madrid

[gwolf666]

This chef's story from cooking on fancy yachts in Monaco to opening a restaurant in Madrid shows how weird the job market is today. What really gets me is that, even with his fancy background, he's struggling to keep his restaurant afloat because of crazy rent and unpredictable money coming in. I find it wild that 1,500 euros isn't enough to live on in a city like Madrid. It just goes to show the difference between how glamorous fancy food looks and how tough it is for people trying to run a restaurant. To me, the big takeaway is that we need to pay attention and find ways to help small restaurant owners. In the end, this story feels like it reflects how unfair things are in the food world.

 

[pousinha]

I'm afraid that things got unfair among many, many fields: the food world is only one of the thousands. Translators earn ridiculous amounts cause the very high rate of competition (and lately, the AIs competitors). Teachers are underpaid. And Spain and Italy are among the worst countries in the world where to work with a compulsory VAT (unfair bureaucracy and tax policies firstly). This chef should have better chosen an eastern European country, if his idea was the EU. You don't live with 1500 euros in the main European capitals.