Titanic.

[Jim Brady]

I cant find the original posting regarding the T.V.series but here we go.I watched the programme on monday and I thought I heard them mention,after the captain the chef was the highest paid member of the crew.I could'nt believe that not in those days of "Upstairs Downstairs".I have just watched the show again on the laptop and sure enough that was the statement that was made.Can you believe that!!
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Jim B
Here is the Link i think you are referring to!?
And yes that is amazing! Why wasnt i a Cook ! haah!
Cheers

http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/s...sERIES+tITANIC

[happy daze john in oz]

Quite possible it was not the head chef but the head chef in one of the other restaurants. they were not members of the crew, just as the musicians were not. White Star had contracted out some of the restaurants to a company in London who provided the chefs and kitchen crew for two of the restaurants. On my tour of the Artefacts exhibition there was a large story board about this along with photos of the restaurants as they were when she sailed and a number of menus in use at the time. Third class menu for the night before the disaster had a roast lamb as one of the main dishes and even down in that galley some reasonable meals were produced.

[Keith at Tregenna]

These guys would have been the celebrity cookie crew of the times, talking real fine dining and world class. Doubt your local cafe would have paid such high wages, this was Titanic and the creme de la creme.

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org...ant-staff.html

In first class they enjoyed filet mignons lili with pâté de foie gras, while in third class they made do with vegetable soup and cabin biscuits. Later, an iceberg in the mid-Atlantic would ruin the meal for everyone.

More than 1,500 people ate their last supper on board the RMS Titanic on 14 April 1912

There exists in Southampton, in St. Josephs Church, Bugle Street, near the Royal Pier a very humble memorial to the Men of the Ritz restaurant (Titanic). It is a small brass plaque attached to a table leg, under the table top, and is inscribed:- ''In memory of the Restaurant Staff . . subscribed by Colleagues and friends''.

K.

[Jim Brady]

Keith,a very interesting read and something I was never aware of.Like many I thought they would all be signed on as crew.So the restaurant was franchised out so to speak.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Think the same series, watched one the other night on catch up, this was to do with a modern rebuild of her kitchens ovens etc and a banquet with original menus etc. Was both enthralled and deeply intersted.

The hotel industry was my forte and knew many a head chef that earned more than the manager, you do talk of the creme de la creme, Apart from the knowledge wages were usually service related, hence many years in a good excec chef could be on more than the probably newer appointed manager. But they had to be bloody good.

Titanic had the best.

Probably some of the earliest form of Franchise? Compared to "I'm Lovin it" and Mackie D's of present.

These were the days that a good Maitre D was minted.

ROLL OVER JAMIE OLIVER AND GORDON RAMSEY ETC.

K.