The Angry Chef Narrative Continues On

The article by GrubStreet describes what it’s like to date a chef, by showing a person who is utterly consumed with their job to the point where it leaves them hurting within their personal relationships, using the hit show “The Bear” as a reference point. The problem with this article is it reads as playing off stereotypes along with more quotes from friends and people who believe that chef’s are bad and cannot have good relationships rather than people who believes that they can. In general, it is not only chef that can be extremely engrossed by their job. In my own experience within the restaurant industry, I have ran into many people within the industry who live, breathe, drink, eat, sleep everything within the industry — to the point that their friends are solely people within the industry as well as their partners. There is no release from this as their entire worldview simply becomes the hospitality industry.