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The rich and famous chefs can't get praised for their food at the moment so they're trying to attach themselves to the idea of caring. They're not saying that they are food insecure or receiving eviction notices from their apartment or are scared to return to work.
They have decimated this industry with their greed for years and just want some sort of attention while in the face of a pandemic they did nothing and now want something. They collaborated with each other to ask for money to help themselves over and over and over.
No real plans for moving this industry forward and addressing the rampant racism, theft of cuisines from cultures not their own, sexual abuse, and brainwashing people with the yes chef mentality.
They want to go backwards, that's where they are most comfortable at. They have fooled the public into thinking they care about them and have been lauded as creative geniuses while trampling over their cities in need.
Could you imagine having the gift of cooking and making food for people but using it to make yourself famous or obscenely rich and when people need it the most you just disappear then reappear months later looking for hand outs or wanting a ticker tape parade for your past?
To the cooks and chefs that are still standing by these types of chefs just know that you are the next generation of people in this industry that will bring nothing to the table and you're going to be screaming yes chef to yourself in the walk in.
To the chefs that are saying things like, "I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE WOULD BESMIRCH THE HALLOWED NAME OF MY CHEF FATHERS DURING A PANDEMIC". Grow up, there are more important things than chef statues that need to be toppled.
Everything is super dandy when they grace the covers of magazines, tire travel guides, and they get medallions to wear on their necks but the second something comes out about their day to day operations and how it sucks for everyone that's not them they want to gloss over it?
These chefs play to the idea of wealth and are now finessing the idea of lowering themselves to feed people at lower prices points and they are trying to act like they are redefining that space and are receiving credit for it.
People aren't traveling from around the world to go to their restaurants so they're actually having to acknowledge their communities on a regular basis so they want credit for that too.
So they'll just keep waiting things out until they can poke their heads back in and see if it's cool to say they have two or three stars and how that's supposed to mean something again. They can afford to wait it out.
They are rich. You are not. So many will race back to spend money the day they declare they are open for dine-in service. They will instantly sell out and the cycle will continue. They'll expand. Shit hits the fan again? Layoff, pandering, whining, and so on.
Keep an eye out on who is saying they have a new show coming out, new cookbook, new opportunity, new this or that. It's the same group over and over. They are rich. Their staff? No. Their opportunities? None. Their names? Who?
Major brands love them because they treat their employees the same way and can keep the focus on one person, the famous chef, versus looking at the staff inside the restaurant cage.
