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From my experience, it is pretty much down to how much you're willing to pay. When I was younger and worked in lower quality places, a lot would be purchased t
by marak830 9y ago
From my experience, it is pretty much down to how much you're willing to pay.
When I was younger and worked in lower quality places, a lot would be purchased through a supplier (although very rare to see premade items purchased), where as now (I work at a fine dining establishment), the current head chef indeed goes to the farmers market once a month - he will go through their produce, and select which items he will want for that months menu (note we get deliveries daily, and check each for quality - anything subpar gets returned and if happens more than once we will find a different supplier).
The same goes for our meats and seafood.
As for those places that order in bulk, optomised for shelf life. They do not deserve to be called restaurants, they are just a fast food joint with a different name.
(Source: 17 years as a chef).
- sametmax 9y agoSemantics. Restaurant are places where you eat. For most people, restaurants don't have star. In France, they mostly buy their stuff at Metro. That's why I pay more and more money to go to very good restaurant. But I care deeply about food, I love it, I cook, and I have money. That's not the usual situation.
- marak830 9y agoI agree it is semantics, but it shouldn't be in my opinion. While it will never happen, I would prefer to call yourself a restaurant you would need to prove that you had hired qualified chefs and that you were producing all the for you sell. It's a major gripe of the industry that people like me do the work to create real quality food, and then get lumped in with places that use premade crap. I should probably stop my rant now, I could go on for a while haha.
- p1esk 9y agoWell, now is the perfect opportunity to name your restaurant :)
- marak830 9y agoI doubt anyone on HN is close enough, it's in Ibiraki Japan - a little far for most of the people on here. (Note most of my experience is in Australia btw)
- sametmax 9y agoThe fact is people vote with their moeny, and they don't vote for quality.
- marak830 9y agoWell we are full every night (I can't remember a night in the last 3 weeks we haven't been at least 75% full at one stage). So at least enough are voting for quality here.