Restaurants are paying less these days while cost of living is increasing. I think it is absurd that restaurants choose to pay less and not raise prices. Cooking for LV and that is the pay? It is in NYC too. I do not live in NY and this pissed me off. Stay strong guys.
by extrabeggin
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Pffff I make $25.30 in a corporate ran restaurant💀
$21/hr in NYC? Fuck outta here…
Can a line cook survive on 21.00 in NYC? Parking, transportation, time. America sucks so bad.
That pay + “one-of-a-kind gastronomic destination for food and culture” like shut the fuck up oh my god. Can’t remember the last time I read such a punchable sentence.
You can make more than that stocking shelves at the grocery store.
I’m a waitress in NYC and we’ve all complained to corporate about how poorly our line cooks are paid, and they make like $22 per hour. It is NOT sustainable. Atp, most of the line cooks I know either live at the end of a train line (Think yonkers or Brighton Beach) or they have family money.
Our “chef” has said that our restaurant has enough prestige that they will always have people who want to work here and he doesn’t have to pay more. I’m lucky the customers pay my salary and not him.
I used to make 30k in this city 8-10 years ago. I survived, but rent has basically doubled since then.
Then Management bitches WhY aRe We AlWaYs understaffed
I started at $10.00/hr in the NY fine dining scene in 2011 and we were guilt tripped over the folks that long-term staged for free.
They’re “paying you for exposure.” This is very common with established brand names. The employees feel honored to take part of something so big, so they accept low wages.
Should be $40/hr
They can go not-nice themselves with those wages.
With that kind of wage in Midtown manhattan, youre looking at living very far away with multiple roommates a looooong commute
I make $21.50 knocking out mediocre pizza and burgers at a brewery lol
Stephen Starr is a cunt
16% battery? Totally crazy. Charge that thing.
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Here in Los Angeles, I have actually seen Executive chef jobs listed at $20 – $24/hour this year. I left a toxic job that was exploiting my labor in January and still can’t find a decent job 🙃
Dude I work in a small town in the south and make $20/hr plus tip out. That’s insane lol.
My brother makes more at whataburger in NW Florida lol
I understand where some comments are coming from. I know how much cooks get paid. I am mad at the trend I see that pay is decreasing while it is hard to survive these days. Just waiting for the crash.
make about that now as a fucking line cook eyo
It’s got to be a weird feeling to be the cheapest thing for sale in a Louis Vuitton store…
This is laughable, and you wonder why the salad you got from the LV store tastes and looks like shit. Pay for some damn talent for the love of jebus!
STARR restaurants are scumbags, they’ve been vicious against the workers trying to organize at some of their restaurants in DC
I was getting paid $22 an hour at Sak’s down the block as a pastry cook.
Great Performances is always hiring. I was an event chef there and was paid $28 an hr.
In 2014, I made $10/hr working pastry production at Momofuku Milk Bar in Williamsburg.
In 2015, I made $12/hr as a line cook at a local joint.
In 2016, I made $55K/yearly as a line cook at another local joint.
In 2019, I made $65K/yearly as an exec sous chef, this time in Boston.
It’s a mixed frickin’ bag. Big names don’t want to spend money on their people. Small names can’t always afford to. There’s no excuse for the above, holy shit
As I like to say, exposure is what people die of, not what you thrive on
“Prestigious” places (or those that think they are) constantly do this, like it’s some great honor to do scrub work and have the super high salary chef shit on you all day and teach you nothing. Wages like this in NYC are either because the business is a failure and they can’t afford to pay well, or because some greedy fuck needs a new Porsche and thinks you don’t deserve to survive.
I have worked for Le Diplmate, PASTIS, and Bread Alley.
DO NOT WORK FOR STARR RESTARAUNTS.\
DO NOT WORK FOR STARR RESTARAUNTS.
DO NOT WORK FOR STARR RESTARAUNTS.
Thank you, this was my TED talk.
Central VT, not even the good VT, and McDonald’s pays starting 18 and hour.
Apparently a living hourly wage in NYC is north of $32 bucks!
Wow, Louis Vuitton is a clown brand.
pretentious AF menu, $100 PLUS check, no prices listed??? And foie gras on top of it? “Le stinky cafe” can take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. Dumb asses. I am sure as shit not dining at some twat waffle restaurant that is so full of itself no prices are listed
Keep in mind, LV isn’t running the restaurant, it’s contracted out to Starr restaurant group. They’re not exactly known for great work environments, high pay, and long-term employees….
Fuck Steven Starr
I worked at one of his restaurants where the chefs and cooks were called “producers”
Starr would come in during our busiest times of service, order half the menu, create changes on the fly and we were expected to start doing things that way the next day (fuck what was already prepped or how long it would take to re-prep)
He also had the prep cooks make him a whole thanksgiving dinner and uber it to his house
Additionally, side complaint: The head chef (clipboard chef) was getting ready to slice up the turkey for transport and all the other sous chefs stood around joking like “alright, get your cameras out, don’t see this much.” That’s how often the man actually picked up a knife
And that’s all I’m going to complain about at this time.
Yea hard pass on Stephen Starr I won’t work for him or Scarduzio ever again.
Even ignoring that bullshit pay, CDP with 0-1 years experience? What the fuck are they even looking for here?
SRO (STARR Restaurant Organization) is known for this. They got sued for wage theft. Look up Talulas Table.
You would think more skill equals more pay.