By Johanna Watson
Paul Hackland after doing 5 days up at The Kingsmills Hotel in Inverness back in March he went straight up to The Parkdean Holiday Park at Nairn Lochloy for 1 week but is still working away getting on well.
Andy Mill is still at The Dowans Hotel in Aberlour another good long stint Andy.
Marion Pohlmann is still doing well with Franc at The Links Hotel in Montrose.
Scott Galloway getting on extremely well at East Haugh and is staying on for an extra few days.
Graeme Kennedy after helping out at Capriolo for a few days last week he is off again to The Green Hotel.
Grant Buchanan and Kenny Bruce working well at The Kenmore Hotel.
Patrik Pohly is at The Scotland’s Hotel in Pitlochry.
Ally Bell is at Murrayshall Hotel in Scone and is working well with Head Chef Craig Jackson.
Ian Barron and Stephen Kessell still working away over on the Isle of Arran at Auchrannie.
Phil Smith and Andy Cook getting on well and making a good team at The Onich Hotel.
Thanks again for your continued support
Another busy week here in Moffat and the rain comes down. Adverts and relief coming in at a fair rate, practically every day we have to put a hold on taking new jobs till we clear the backlog. Around 60 chefs out at the moment, very few fall downs, well done!
Business picking up everywhere it seems, well into the season now and hoteliers are having to make more pragmatic choices to get bodies into the kitchen than they were a month or two ago.
Anyway, back to the coal face to see if I can get some of these sous vacancies filled…
All the best,
Mark
By Johanna Watson
Martain Irvine completed 5 weeks at Onich Hotel and will be travelling over to Nairn today to work at The Golf View Hotel.
Steven Speed is getting on great and enjoying his time at The Old Manor Hotel in Fife and will be staying for longer.
Edvinas Stankaitis is getting on well at The Torridon Inn along with William Sillars.
Phillip Blackburn worked a good stretch at Crianlarich Hotel and is booked for Auchrannie in the Eighteen69 restaurant along with new Head Chef Richard Agnew.
New man William Allan is still working away at Eden Court Theatre where Scott McKenzie and Garry Wilson will join him for 4 days next week.
Steven Chandler good reports back from Moness he will be joining Alan Kaye up at The Boat Inn in Aboyne.
David Ironside getting on well at Broxburn Care Home has enjoyed the Chippy salt and sauce Yes Please !!!
Mark Irons completed Fife Arms in Braemar and is now up at The Tongue Hotel working alongside new relief chef Shaun Lee.
Mikko Koskinen is enjoying the great outdoors up at Nevis Range and is booked again for a 2nd stint in July with a 4 week job down in Lockerbie at The Dryfesdale Hotel along with Antonio Demir.
Thanks again guys for doing great work.
Sun please come out it is June after all
Busy?
I will say.
Mark Operations Manager is off on a well deserved holiday for five or six days off to Knockengorroch music festival over by Carsphairn on the way up to Ayr.
Johanna Watson is managing the office this week, helped by Callum Graham our midsummer temporary helper who is on phone 1 this afternoon and will be kept busy.
Ian Paul comes in Monday and Tuesday evening to get invoices done. We call him “Invoices” and he plays a mean game of golf and in his mid-sixties, he has won our golf competition the last two years running.
Colin Fraser comes in on an ad hoc basic as he has a full time job and helps with “Special Projects” “Director of Special Projects we call him. New website, new database you get the gist. Give him a task to project manage and he will get it done, again a good golfer just down to six.
Ann Holt The Housekeeper comes in a couple of days a week, again just four hours part time but does a much needed job in keeping the office and downstairs tidy for interviews.
Bentley the Basset Hound lies about and eats what food he can and will bark when left alone.
We seem to have properties dotted all over Dumfries-shire now.
The Flat at Dundanion House which is connected via Chefs In Scotland and doesn’t need too much work.
The Shop on Well Street, Craizy Daisy Crafts, run by Ann Hornell, into her second year and doing very very well Ann has her own business at the Chefs In Scotland shop.
Nether Cottage by Crocketford over the other side. Holiday Cottages Crocketford a lovely 3 bedroom cottage which is tastefully down out and hand for relaxing and walking Bentley and cutting the back garden. But NO, the bookings are piling in and Angela Ferguson who decorated the property and looks after the house-keeping there more than does her bit.
We have over a hundred jobs on our website and Johanna has a pool of over 50 relief chefs working all over Scotland from Shetland to The Borders and into Cumbria also.
We are currently ok to recruit for perm head and sous and adverts for chef de partie and below positions.
We do take payment up front for adverts and us to look for head and sous.
Check out our website for pricing.
Busy, I will say.
3pm this afternoon I am off golfing with the Buddhists in the weekly medal at Moffat.
By Johanna Watson
Henry Samms has now finished his stint at Chester Hotel and is now working as Head Chef at Four Seasons Restaurant in Onich he is helping out this weekend at Loch Fyne Oysters in Cairndow.
Stuart MacColl has finished a good stint at The Old Manor Hotel where as usual he god on great he is working a few days at Balgeddie Toll Tavern and will be awaiting his next assignment starting Monday.
Alex Henry has now been put on week on week off at Glensander Quarry and will be able to help out the odd day here and there.
New man Scott Galloway is starting his first relief contract on the 20th of May at East Haugh House.
Paul Waters worked a few days at Fonab Castle and is now at Saplinbrae in Mintlaw working a relief Sous Chef.
Douglas ‘Denzil’ Gillies has completed another long stint on Shetland (September 2013 – May 2014) he is now booked to start work on Monday the 19th with Brian Crawford at Cross Keys Hotel in Kelso.
Damian Bolton is helping out at Inch Hotel in fort Augustus for 2 stints then heading the The Caledonian Hotel in Oban for 4 days.
Michael Njoroge is working with Paul Waters at Saplinbrae.
Phillipe Alamichel has been to Kildrummy Castle then went on a wee holiday to France and jumped right back in the work at The Green Hotel in Kinross working with new head chef Gordon Wood placed by Michael.
Thanks for all your continued support.
PLEASE NOTE when you are on a relief job we do not want you to mention your hourly rate of pay to other members of staff as we have never and will not start poaching chefs from their full time positions.
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