Behind the Line
Topic: On the Job
A Day in the Life
Do you work on non-restaurant focused holidays or take the night off?
- Nate Hamilton
- Chef de Cuisine
- Harvest
- Madison, WI
Thankfully, we're closed on some of the big ones - Christmas and Thanksgiving are especially important. We have such a small staff that my presence is required on the big restaurant holidays - New ...
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- Matt Danko
- Pastry Chef
- The Greenhouse Tavern and Noodlecat
- Cleveland, OH
I take the night off.
- Josh Galliano
- The Libertine
- Clayton, MO
I think I work on any day that the restaurant is open.
- Nathaniel Meads
- Pastry Chef
- RM
- Chicago, IL
We're open every day except Christmas. So, we get at least one night a year.
- Brian Reilly
- Chef
- Noodlecat
- Cleveland, Ohio
Depends on holiday. St.pattys day I do my own thing at a friends bar. Its good to take it easy though
- Charlie Berg
- Sommelier
- Michael Mina Bourbon Steak DC
- Washington, DC
What's a night off?
- David Katz
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Philadelphia, PA
We close for holidays. I don't like being open and making people spend their holidays working. We close for Christmas eve, Christmas day, the day before thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, labor day an...
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- Carrie Nahabedian
- Executive Chef/Owner
- NAHA and Brindille
- Chicago, IL
NAHA is closed on all holidays....
- Jill Barron
- Executive Chef/Owner
- MANA food bar
- Chicago, IL
eating at other restaurants is like a holiday.
- Paul Fehribach
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Big Jones
- Chicago, IL
I work for my customers when they want me. There are other times though. I am not an NFL football kind of person, but I do take the night of the Super Bowl off, because the restaurant is dead. I st...
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- Jason McLeod
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Box Tree Restaurant, Inc
- San Diego, CA
yes,
its the norm for our industry and I think it is the hardest thing for new employees to understand that holidays off does not happen
- Cary Taylor
- Executive Chef
- The Southern
- Chicago, IL
Yes