On Saturday we celebrated Johanna’s 10 - year anniversary at the CIS office and Maureen’s birthday. We went for lunch at The Bank in Dumfries just on the sands. We ordered a selection of tapas and drinks from the menu and shared amongst ourselves. I personally ordered the Mussels in a creamy sauce and coconut breaded prawns, a few other dishes we enjoyed were pigs’ cheeks, Chorizo & king prawns and some lamb kebab styled skewers. Lots more tapas too but too many to list! Also forgot to take a picture of the food as were too excited to get stuck in.
They have deals on through the week as well, a selection of tapas and a drink for £20. The prices were very reasonable as they were large portions for being tapas dishes. We thoroughly enjoyed, so much so that I am going again this Saturday for the mussels and prawns! Would highly recommend. We never had any desserts as we were full, but the selection looked nice. It’s a lovely restaurant with nice views of the sands as well. We continued on from here to the Hole I’ the Wa for a few other drinks.
We are all back in the office today and hoping for a busy week! We are hoping for snow but there is nothing in Moffat yet. Let see your snow pictures if you have any.
We are having a good week in the CIS office this week with 20 adverts, 13 relief jobs confirmed and 1 permanent placement so far. Johanna has been away on annual leave, so I have been dealing with relief and some permanent recruitment and Jade has been picking up the rest of the permanent recruitment and has been arranging a lot of interviews.
We have 30 relief chefs out working which is on par with last year.
The weather has been dreadful with storm Dennis and the continuing rain. We hope everyone has stayed safe on their travels to jobs.
We are keen to meet chefs here in Moffat for future work relief or permanent. Please get in touch to check our availability.
We have now got some managerial and front of house positions on our list for permanent if you are looking for front of house work.
We have an offer on for adverts until the end of February with £25 + vat off any advert placed.
Policy on taking on new relief chefs – we are happy to get new chefs registered but the priority of work goes to the chefs who have worked all season and previous seasons. Relief work picks up from mid-March 2020. Please just email your up to date CV reference details and hygiene certificate to jojo@chefsinscotland.co.uk
Here are a few chefs we have out just now
Chris Mcsevney is at the Spiritualist in Glasgow for a few weeks. Brian Ferguson is back at The Scores Hotel in St Andrews. Ally Elder is over at Portavadie Marina helping them out for a couple of weeks. Ross Hunter is working for the next couple of days at The Woodpecker Restaurant in Lanark. Roddy Mackinnon is at The Scalloway Hotel in the Shetland Isles. Peter Norrie is back at Kastille and Ally Brown is in Oban at The Ben Nevis Hotel.
Thanks all for your patience and hard work, we really appreciate it 😊
It was very sad to hear over the weekend that Caroline Flack had taken her own life. There has been a lot in the media recently about her personal life regarding an upcoming domestic violence trial involving her boyfriend. She had received countless abuse from both social media and through the press. A petition is doing the rounds through social media as we speak to bring in ‘Carolines Law’. A law that will ban the press and online trolling from posting inaccurate or false accusations about people and to stop cyber bullying. Many of the newspapers and magazines were all paying tribute to her over the weekend, yet only a few weeks ago they had her pending court case plastered over the front pages.
This is the third Love Island star to claim their own life due to severe pressure from the media. Saturday nights show was cancelled due to Caroline’s death, but I personally feel the whole show should be cancelled all together. There are masses of pressure on everyone to look a certain way, act a certain way etc according to what we see daily on social media. Women especially feel the pressure to look like those we see in magazines, newspapers and tv shows.
It is times like these you can truly appreciate not being in the public eye. Everything you do constantly criticised for the world to see. It must be really hard for celebrities to cope with the media and you would need to have a thick skin to cope, but it shouldn’t be that way. Mental health is very important to everyone and we shouldn’t ignore it. We should all know that it is okay to not be okay and end the stigma around mental health. Hopefully there is some good that can come from Caroline's passing, that those who are struggling can finally speak up and get the help they need. A smile can hide so much and we should all be kinder on social media and to those we meet on a daily basis. #carolineslaw #boycottthemedia #benice
We are having a good week in the CIS office, with 7 permanent, 9 relief and 18 adverts so far.
We have 26 relief chefs out so far, this is slightly down on last year.
The weather has been dreadful with storm Ciara and then storm Dennis approaching. We hope everyone has stayed safe on the roads.
We are keen to meet chefs here in Moffat for future work relief or permanent. Please get in touch to check our availability.
We have now got a couple of managerial front of house positions on our list for permanent also if you are looking for front of house work.
We have an offer on for adverts until the end of February with £25 + vat off any advert placed.
Policy on taking on new relief chefs – we are happy to get new chefs registered but the priority of work goes to the chefs who have worked all season and previous seasons. Relief work picks up from mid-March 2020. Please just email your up to date CV reference details and hygiene certificate to jojo@chefsinscotland.co.uk
Here are a few chefs we have out just now
Dylan Hughes is going to Eden Court Theatre in Inverness for 1 week before starting his new job
Mike Pallister is at Archview Lodge Care Home
Peter Norrie is back covering holidays at The Kastille in Turriff
Ally Elder is at Portavadie in Loch Fyne
Chris Mcsevney is at The Spiritualist in Glasgow
Sarah Pozzi is at The Craig Manor Hotel in Windermere
Chris Wright is at The Old Manse of Blair in Perthshire
James Pratt is at The Cabarfeidh Hotel in Stornoway
Thanks all for your patience and hard work, we really appreciate it 😊
Monday 10th February
A rather wet Monday here in Moffat with torrential rain over the weekend. We are expected snow this week and across other parts of the region. A nice busy start to the week in the office with 1 relief confirmed, 4 permanent and 3 adverts. We are hoping for a busy week here in the CIS office. Lots of new jobs getting registered every week and CV’s coming in daily.
I was reading an article this morning about the rise in the minimum wage that will become effective as of April. The national minimum wage will rise to £8.72 per hour for those over 25 and up to £8.20 for those 21 and over. We are very lucky to have the higher minimum wage here in the UK I comparison to other countries. When I was over in America, waiting staff solely rely on tips to make up their daily rate and if the service isn’t good then they don’t make the extra money. The minimum wage in America accumulates to around £5.60 per hour ($7.25 per hour) which is what I was making when I was around 16.
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