Starbucks Café was buzzing as always as classes all ended for the day. Dave didn’t seem to have a care in the world as we sat down and he threw his feet up on the couch playfully while sipping on a tall double chocolate hot chocolate and scarfing down a fresh chocolate chip cookie, whose smell seemed to be luring in anybody so much as walking by. Knowing that he is a second year culinary and business student I was very intrigued and anxious to learn about this. Once he sat upright nicely dressed in his black slacks and blue button up he began to almost look like a sophisticated college student, although it was very hard not to notice the melted chocolate staring at me from the corner of his mouth. The more I talked to him the more and I was
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But either way, his happiness and the passion that he spoke with could have had an audience of onlookers mesmerized and smiling right along.
He began to speak about how much he cares about culinary arts and how the best part is serving great food you can be proud of while making your customers happy simultaneously. “How I see it, being a chef is like a 3-in-1 opportunity. You have fun doing what you love, you get that proud feeling in your gut while you watch those perfectly plated dishes leave the kitchen and make it to the customers who you know are going to come back because of what you made.” His face lit up and without an instant response from me he started to ramble on about the rewarding career of becoming a chef and how he feels at home walking into the …show more content…
Talking about his passion in life that is culinary arts it brings out a more grown up professional and opportunistic student who definitely earned that 4.0 gpa and has his heart set on his future cooking career. Any time I moved away from the subject and onto something else I could see his foot creeping up to the edge of the table and he got very restless. It was almost as if speaking of culinary turned on a switch that sent 12 year old Dave on break and in walked sophomore in college Dave ready to impress and disprove anybody who would dare doubt
But either way, his happiness and the passion that he spoke with could have had an audience of onlookers mesmerized and smiling right along.
He began to speak about how much he cares about culinary arts and how the best part is serving great food you can be proud of while making your customers happy simultaneously. “How I see it, being a chef is like a 3-in-1 opportunity. You have fun doing what you love, you get that proud feeling in your gut while you watch those perfectly plated dishes leave the kitchen and make it to the customers who you know are going to come back because of what you made.” His face lit up and without an instant response from me he started to ramble on about the rewarding career of becoming a chef and how he feels at home walking into the …show more content…
Talking about his passion in life that is culinary arts it brings out a more grown up professional and opportunistic student who definitely earned that 4.0 gpa and has his heart set on his future cooking career. Any time I moved away from the subject and onto something else I could see his foot creeping up to the edge of the table and he got very restless. It was almost as if speaking of culinary turned on a switch that sent 12 year old Dave on break and in walked sophomore in college Dave ready to impress and disprove anybody who would dare doubt