But Roux also stressed the "intangible" benefits of working at his restaurant, in comments that may concern chefs who fear some famous restaurants have used their reputations as valuable training grounds to extract long hours for low pay.
And, because cross contamination can be a concern, chefs will whip up a fresh serving of anything on the buffet back in the kitchen.
These range from questions that concern chefs and cooks, such as why do some food pairings enhance flavor while others can be quite unpleasant, to socially important issues such as how we might persuade people to adopt healthier diets and how we can encourage more youngsters to take up careers in the sciences.
He woke up to a stream of abuse from the chef concerned, Claude Bosi, with fellow two-Michelin-starred cooks Simon Rogan, Tom Kerridge and Sat Bains jumping to Bosi's defence under the hashtag chefsunite.
The results, revealed in early March, provide either a very public triumph or a very public humiliation for the chefs concerned, and a corresponding rise or drop in revenues for their restaurants.
They are not concerned that the sushi chef, William Schropp, is not only one of the few non-Japanese in his field but also an Austrian trained in French cuisine.
As far as chefs are concerned, they're just trying to get rid of the stuff that's destined to die a lingering death while the restaurant has its annual shut-down, hence the increasingly desperate-sounding "specials".
You can get Sichuan food all over China these days and some chefs are concerned about the loss of skills in the countryside; people move to the city leaving only the very young and the very old behind.
Put some more brown jiz on the fire and check your meez before the sous comes back there and fucks you in the culo!," which means "Please reduce some additional demi-glace, brother, and reëxamine your mise en place, because the sous-chef is concerned about your state of readiness".
But there was one major problem with the transition to successive courses, at least as far as some French chefs were concerned.
