IT TAKES A LONG WHILE WHEN YOU NEED A SPANISH SPEAKING MICHELIN STARRED CHEF.
It was to meet this requirement that we got asked to look in the first place! The freelance yacht consultant offered the captain our credentials. We set about the task with alacrity.
Only people like Gladstone Park Chefs can provide Senior Michelin Starred chefs and well over 50 of them at that!!!
Now when you want them now and you want them to be conversant with Spanish, you have a problem.
We found our first man but felt equally sunk, when his knees would not take the strain in June!!
We had to find a replacement and to everybody's delight came up with a Spanish speaking replacement with the correct Michelin procedures and 5 Star experience.
Well the man was good but not the standard that the boss liked, so we had to go on the search for a very special guy. We even had to get him to do a trial in Spain before the bosses favourite chef. You guessed it, we found yet another. This guy was the head of a string of ships and we managed to secure him for this one yacht. 3 Spanish speakers in 6 months and all with Michelin credentials.
He was French and he spoke some Spanish. He was even trained at 3 Michelin Starred The Waterside in Berkshire for a few years.
Now we have to admit that we cannot always meet the bill. We had the head chef of a 3 Michelin star one day and could not place him just because he liked a cigarette after work!!!
So if your boss likes El Bulli, The French Laundry, or The Waterside Inn, it goes to reason, go to the people who have been there for a lot of their staff.