Chef Alan Gibb
I didn’t know that Chef Alan Gibb was a relatively young man or that he was born in Aberdeen.
Alan registered with CIS when he finished at The Cluny in Forres back in the mid noughties. He was of a mind to do a bit of relief work, but picked up a head chef position at the City Inn in Glasgow before making his way back to Gleneagles.
Over the following years, we occasionally sent out via email to him for work references. Without fail, he would take the time to fill in the work reference answering honestly and send them back to us. I am sure we were one of many such requests that he would deal with in a busy day.
I still remember the name of the first chef we placed at Gleneagles, Rosemary Phelan, this would be back in 2000 or 2001 and when the ladies from HR at Gleneagles phoned me up, sitting in my back room in Glenmore on Skye, I was astounded that I was thought worthy of trying to find them chefs. The check stub was pinned up on the wall. We placed a few chefs at Gleneagles at that time.
Ten or so years later and we weren’t dealing with Gleneagles but a good young chef from Stranraer, Ryan McCutcheon, registered with CIS and I did up his CV and popped it over to Chef Gibb.
The HR department queried our 200 pound plus VAT fee. I emailed Chef Gibb and said it is ok, just leave the fee. He said no, if HR wouldn’t pay it, it would come out of his kitchen budget. HR paid the fee.
A man of decency and integrity in the small world of Scottish Hospitality.
Our sincere thoughts are with Alan’s wife Karen and son Liam.
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