Since last two decades cooking has become an art. Anybody can cook but there are very few who can cook well. Food after cooking changes its taste, color, shape and smell. Through experience one can learn how much time a food takes to get cooked, and what is the method of cooking any particular dish, and one can only learn this experience by working with a chef.

Chef’s responsibility is not just to cook food but he has to supervise other chefs, work on the presentation of food, deal with the food suppliers and decide menu according to the occasion. When you pass out from any institution after acquiring education in cooking, you are only a cook but after working in a restaurant or hotel with a chef, you learn many different new methods of cooking, and gradually you learn through experience and become a chef.

To become a chef of any hotel you’ve have to go through various stages. The first stage is of Apprentice or a commas chef. Next stage is of chef de party, where you not only have to cook but to arrange parties as well. Third stage is of Souse chef, who is the right man of head chef. He takes care of the kitchen in the absence of head chef .The last and the final stage is of Head Chef, whose main responsibilities are to arrange the menu, hire or fire the staff, deal with the suppliers of food and to keep a check on the kitchen environment. A chef must have good managerial skills. He should be able to work with a team. The most important quality of a chef is that he should be able to work under stress. With the rapid increase in tourism industry more hotels are expected to open in Pakistan, which would give chance to many people who are interested in joining this profession.