Depending upon the influence of supervising one kitchen or managing multiple kitchens, a chef manager, research and development chef, food and beverage chef, culinary team leader etc, would be either be ranked as a Chef de cuisine or an Executive chef.
The six 'SAKE' ranks (Categories) are:
Rank Influence in a kitchen
1. Food Service Assistant Comply with instructions.
2. Apprentice cook Practice as instructed.
3. Cook / Chef Accomplish as required.
4. Sous chef Enforce kitchen policies.
5. Chef de cuisine Supervise a kitchen.
6. Executive chef Manage a cluster of kitchens.
These descriptions do not in any way attempt or even suggest replacing the parti system, which for decades has classified chef’s roles.
All this philosophy does, is augment the classical system, and updates titles that did not originally exist placing them into understandable and logical categories.
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- Kitchen assistant.
- Kitchen attendant.
- Kitchen hand.
A Food Service Assistant is an unqualified culinary labourer who simply COMPLIES with instructions under the direct authority of a chef, their authority and influence is nil, as their fundamental role and position is “Yes chef”
Many aspire to become a cook, and technicall may become a cook when accepted into a commercial cook’s position, usually after a number of years of on the job experience.
Nevertheless, in doing so are very limited in their professional upward mobility due to lack of technical education.
Their duties are, to assist the chef with preparation, cooking and presentation of appetizers, soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, general kitchen cleaning and respond:
Yes Chef.
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...ationally and globally (Australia - England) and acknowledges a chef's contribution to the development of their local cookery community.
Pioneer is not a rank, it is a national award (Australia - Les Toques Blanches) and acknowledges a chef's contribution to the industry and its inherited cuisine.
Master chef is not a rank or title; it is an independent industry based qualification, accolade and acknowledgement of the chefs 'SAKE'. A Certified Master Chef is the highest technical achievement possible and can only be a genuine title if based on independent and external examination of a chef's 'SAKE' at the highest level.
Master Chefs must provide evidence of their accrediting organisation against their title or they are pseudo masters. Unfortunately, there are “cowboys” who have never taken external examinations to prove their worth and call themselves Master Chefs
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