As someone that worked in kitchens for years, this is backwards. The environments are already like this and the media simply describe it. My personal theory is

As someone that worked in kitchens for years, this is backwards. The environments are already like this and the media simply describe it. My personal theory is that kitchen jobs attract a certain sort of person: ones with short attention spans (making a dish is immediately rewarding) and those that couldn’t get a “real job” due to tattoos, drug use, alcoholism, etc. etc. This all adds up to a more variable group of people than the white collar academic media class considers normal.