Serving up a great career


From ‘playing host’ to family and friends as a child, Jeremy is now doing the job for real as the General Manager of a prestigious hotel. He shares the amazing opportunities his career choice has given him.


I really enjoyed home-cooking when I was young; I loved the idea of entertaining people. If we went out to eat, I’d spend all the time watching what the restaurant or kitchen staff were doing, how they were coordinating with each other and taking care of the clients. I did Food Tech’ at school, but people were generally quite dismissive of my choice to go into catering at college. I was a fairly bright,


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ambitious student, but it was as though people thought I ‘could do better’; if only those people could see me now!


After school, having decided I wanted to be a chef, I looked at different courses and decided on my local college, Brockenhurst. I did both NVQ Level 1 and 2, over two years, which was great. We switched around, one week working in the kitchen,


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