The crippling problem restaurant-goers haven’t noticed but chefs are freaking out about

Good cooks are getting harder to come by. Not the head kitchen honchos, depicted in Food Network reality shows, who fine-tune menus and orchestrate the dinner rush, but the men and women who are fresh out of culinary school and eager.

The shortage of able kitchen hands is affecting chefs in Chicago, where restaurateurs said they are receiving far fewer applications than in past years. "It’s gotten to the point where if good cooks come along, we’ll hire them even if we don’t have a position. Because we will have a position," Paul Kahan, a local chef, told the Chicago Tribune last week http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food-restaurant-cooks-shortage-20150803-htmlstory.html .

By Roberto A. Ferdman

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Thanks to Abraham Risho of The Silk Road http://www.silkroadcatering.com/ in Missoula for sharing.