Kitchen Stories

Trail, try-out, stage, whatever you call it, if you're doing it because you need a job, it sucks. What is trailing or staging? Stage is the French word for "internship". In this context, it's part of the hiring process for cooks and chefs where they work a full day in the restaurant they're trying to get hired at without pay. Sometimes you would get a meal at the end of your free-labor shift. You might be forgotten about because you were put in some dark corner cleaning