Chefs, You Are Not Alone!

A simple, free program for cooking enthusiasts and users who are interested in recipe costing.  Resort Recipe stores, scales and prints recipes and is fully compatible with all of our recipe management products. The program is also incredibly easy to use.  Thanks to Steve from Resort Software.

Post your Job Listing discounted from $99 to only $9! This coupon code can be used an UNLIMITED number of times on or before July 31, 2009.

Why post a job in Chef21?  If you want to put your job in front of people who have a particular set of interests and skills, people who keep up with what's going on, the sort of people who visit Chef21 Blog - then this is the job board for you!

This is an e-book for chefs looking to work overseas.  It takes a look at the changes one goes through "becoming an expat".  First of all, why move overseas and live an uncomfortable and undignified life as an expat anyway?

Due to the wide variety of people working as "expats", it's very hard to label and identify the "expat experience" - it varies greatly, but there are a variety of constants that tend to come up as topics of conversation or interest in regards to "expat life".

Many people have dreamt of becoming a chef.  It is not easy, however, to become one.  You need to devote time and effort to learning all the culinary skills required from a chef.  It is not just about cooking.  It also involves learning how to run a kitchen. 

The process of becoming a great chef is long and hard, but there are perks that go with the job.  There are many places where you can go to.  You can choose to work in restaurants, hotels, resorts, hospitals or cruise ships etc etc.

The term social media is remarkably big this these days. With more than half the business world turning to the internet to market and sell their products, social media has indeed become quite big. People are using social media to earn money and to get their websites going. But what is social media?

Work safety means employees will have physical well-being in a kitchen environment. Because a lot of people spend their time working, work safety is paramount to the health and well-being of the employee.

The key to safety is policy and standards. This e-book will help you decide the best way to make policies and standards to help you improve the work safety of your kitchen environment.

To all the non-networkers or future networkers out there, Chef21.com has been a good networking and information tool that I have used a lot in the past 2 years. Chef Matthew keeps the information flowing (don't know how he has the energy to) and things get more interesting as the site and network grows.

Nowadays, even before the recession, networking is everything. Being a part of a growing network such as Chef21 is a priceless tool that can be used in many ways to educate, "hook up,” find info out, and learn from all open professionals who are interested in sharing and helping all to grow and make a better profession for all of us. In one lifetime, we will never know everything so it is better to learn as a team. Chef21 can help all succeed in this important task.

Kudos to Matthew for bringing us Chef21 blog. Your content and graphics are refreshing, informative and inspiring. The blog format has risen to the top of other culinary sites on many levels. First, your product is visually sophisticated, next, it is user friendly. After just a glance at each daily blog, I can skim through front page thumbnail topics and quickly zero in on those of interest to me.

Your product reflects excellence on several levels, professionally and personally. Professionally because I make it my business to know industry leaders, and have found Chef21 an invaluable research tool. Personally, because your content is 'real' rather than fluff. I look forward to more.

Having recently left the hospitality industry to start my own business after over 20 years in hospitality, I find your Chef21 blog/network an indispensable tool to keep me informed of the happenings of the industry. The rapid rise and presence your network has taken to be considered a major player and communication tool for hospitality professionals has been quite incredible to say the least.

Your network has quickly cemented itself (through a lot of hard work I'm sure) as "The" industry website to keep us informed. I, like many others, I'm sure, log in daily to check what's new. The web certainly makes the world feel much smaller and sites such as yours are fantastic tools to educate/inform many of us on what the trends/styles are like all around the world and can be so beneficial in our professional lives.

In addition to this the weekly updates always have something of interest and I find myself often forwarding on bits of info/stories that would interest some of my industry colleagues. After 20 years in a professional kitchen and now several out of the kitchen it is refreshing to see that there is still so much to learn out there and the Chef21 network helps us keep up with it all.

Thanks to you and the team for all your efforts and keep up the great work!

It’s not very often you come across something relevant and helpful to your profession that actually enables you to network with people in similar positions around the globe that are all aiming to better an industry that is the back bone of hospitality.

Chef21 has proven to be an up to date, state of the world website that is forever changing, with the vast experience and multi-cultural members that are a part of the site, it can only keep you enthusiastic about a dynamic industry that evolves as we do. Thanks to all members for your advice, stories and daily adventures which we in the industry can all relate to and even laugh about now that we have moved further along in our careers , but also memories we will never forget...food for thought? food for life..."