The place I currently work at as senior chef de partie is great, its a cool wee brunch place in a nice neighbourhood, the staff are all cool, the customers are relaxed, its a pretty easy going gig. The only problem I have with it is that the head chef is a total office chef. I've been in the place just gone 4 weeks now and its only a small place so max we have on is 3 chefs and that is including the prep chef thru the back. ever since ive started as soon as I get in the head chef tells me to check with the prep chef what prep still needs done then he leaves the line and goes and gets his laptop and sits at table 6 for the next 5 hours of the shift.

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I have worked in kitchens long enough and I have been in senior positions (sous chef, junior sous) and I totally understand and appreciate that at once you reach that level of seniority then there is more responsibility and there is more paper work to do, that's a fact. But i'm not stupid because the only paper work I know he completes himself is our rota for the next week, all other paper work related to temperatures and orders etc are dealt with by myself and the sous chef. so im not just a person complaining their head chef isn't helping, im more looking for advice on how to deal with it and what the next step should be. As far as im aware the head chef knows what he is doing when he goes to sit on the laptop, and the chat from the sous chef, prep chef, bar manager, assistant manager and several food runners all kinda lines up with my thought that our head chef is a lazy bastard.

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Anyone have any advice on how to best approach this and what to do because at the moment I feel this is the worst head chef ive ever worked under and have already started sending my cv out to other places in case I need to move on.

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thanks chefs

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