A Letter to Prospective Stagiaires

You have more power than you think.

Kitchen staff at the Grosvenor House Hotel, at work during a fifteen-minute gas mask drill, Mayfair, London, circa 1940. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

About a week ago, several prominent chefs with restaurants in Europe sent me a link to a recent story in the Financial Times about the working conditions of stagiaires in fine dining rest…