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How much money do chefs make?

posted 13 years ago by waters-9
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I understand the guy was a successful chef, but this family seemed very wealthy, especially with the wife unemployed. Maybe some of the money came from the mother-in-law's earnings as a a singer.

How could Flor be in the country six years and know that little English?
I guess no need in the barrio.

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[–] hal-9010 13 years ago

He owned a successful restaurant

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[–] mikeflw1 13 years ago

How could Flor be in the country six years and know that little English?
I guess no need in the barrio.

Besides the fact that language lessons are time consuming and expensive you mean?
(BTW, there is a difference between 'understanding' and 'speaking' a language, but Flor did not do either one. A former South Vietanamese Army Captain repeatedly asked if he was going to be paid twice - we enventually realized it was Sunday, and he meant to ask if he was going to be paid double-time for working on Sunday.)

This may come as a surprise to other people, as it did to me (years ago).
Even in Dallas, (Texas, USA), there are large areas where no English is spoken; FRENCH in one case. The parents of a visiting French businessman came to Dallas, lived there over two years, and spoke NO English, (they were wealthy, and expected people to speak their language). The entire area where they lived primarily spoke French only.

Spanish is far from the only "other language" in Texas. There are large groups of (in no special order, and NOT in tended as a complete list), Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Cambodian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, British, Irish, French, German, Czech, Polish, Phillipino, Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli, Indian, Pakistani, Nepalese, Tibetan, Somali, Belgian, Spanish (European both Castillian, and Castillano), Italian, Greek, former Warsaw Pact countries (including the former Soviet Union), Brazillian, Colombian, Argentine, Mexican, and many, many more than those! Those are just the origins of people I know I personally have come into contact with in my jobs. Many of those were here with H1-B visas ("specialized worker"), some for training and/or military visas, others with student visas, and some with dual citizenships.

On a trip to Fredriksburg (Texas), I heard German being spoken on the street during their annual Peach Festival.

While I do not speak all those languages, I have been able to recognize many of them, and learned a few phrases and words.

There is also a Texas based grocery chain that adds the 'nationality' to the cashiers name tags! I surprised the bejeebers out of one when I said "hello" in Mandarin Chinese... I had to say it three times before she realized I had spoken Chinese! Then she answered me back in Chinese, and I was lost... back to English.

You will have a hard time going by a person's looks too. Another co-worker wore cowboy boots, shirts, and hat to work, and some visiting European businessmen were delighted to see a real Texas "cowboy" until he took off his hat. He was a second generation American from a Japanese heritage, and was born and raised in Iowa!

[–] jporter-6 12 years ago

How much money do chefs make? Charge chefs? Lots.

Successful, starred restaurant owners? Lots.

[–] jgroub 12 years ago

Well, the budget for the movie was $80 million, so Clasky got a nice chunk of that . . .

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[–] Madonna-whore 12 years ago

I work as an interpreter, and I often speak to many latinos that have been in the US for more than 40 years and do not speak a word of english, some people are just stubborn and want to keep their culture, others are just really bad at languages, I really don't know, but I have spoken to too many of them to know that it happens way more often than you might think.

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