You would think that there would be a glut of Chefs with all of the glamour these days of cooking shows with top chefs on TV.
The cooking schools have ample students.
One of the clearest obstacles to hiring a good cook, let alone someone willing to work the kitchen these days, is that living in this country’s biggest cities is increasingly unaffordable.
In New York, for instance, where a cook can expect to make between $10 and $12 per hour, and the median rent runs upward of $1,200 a month, living in the city is a near impossibility.
As a result, people end up living far from the restaurants where they work.
Add to that how late dinner shifts can end, causing people to arrive home well into the night.
Top it all off with the fact that culinary school graduates are often working through significant amounts of debt, and the burden can be insurmountable.
And a good deal of the money earned by the former comes in the form of television contracts, book deals, guest appearances and other tangential earnings.
“The pay just isn’t there,” said Kim McLynn, a representative for industry research firm NPD Group.
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