Sometimes following your passions can lead you down strange roads. Take, for example, Chef Tiff Chan. She runs Chef Tiff’s Kitchen in Hong Kong, which focuses on fusion tea cuisine — a blending of traditional foods with tea flavors. But that’s not what the 24-year-old had in mind during her three years of college inFIND OUT MORE |

It’s Father’s Day Weekend! And that means sales of neckties will skyrocket, golf ratings will soar and barbecues across the country will spring forth with fiery goodness. What will you be putting on your grill? For ideas we turned to Chef Steve Oakley, our June Chef of Chef Works and dad extraordinaire. The seven-time JamesFIND OUT MORE |

If you love your Chef Works apron, use it outside of the traditional kitchen setting (makeup artist, potter, florist, baker, etc.) and would like to be an Apron Ace, email marketing@chefworks.com. Remember Willy Wonka’s backstory? His father was a dentist, wanted his son to pursue the business, but was shattered when he instead became a chocolatier.FIND OUT MORE |

The culinary community is in mourning following the news Friday that Anthony Bourdain was found dead in a hotel room in France of a reported suicide. The 61-year-old celebrity chef, author and television personality is credited for inspiring millions. According to multiple news outlets, he was found unresponsive by friend and chef Eric Ripert. “YourFIND OUT MORE |

Unfortunately for Chef Steven Oakley, the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers already have full rosters and the Indianapolis Colts already have a quarterback. Oakley, 49, says he would have found a future in sports had he not gone into cooking. Fortunately for the people of Indianapolis, he found his calling in the kitchen, not onFIND OUT MORE |

For the 23rd-straight year, Chef Works was out in full force at the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. With representatives from nearly every department – including employees from Chef Works International – our group had the opportunity to show off our functional and fashion-forward gear while swapping ideas with some of the best andFIND OUT MORE |

Chef Works will be spotlighting someone in waitstaff each month through November as part of our “Five-Star Service” blog feature. In December, we’ll ask our blog’s readership to vote who has the “best story.” We’ll dress the winning restaurant with Chef Works gear! Sir Isaac Newton tells us that a body in motion tends toFIND OUT MORE |

Chris Shelton was born to be a Chef Works’ lifer — literally.  He came into the world less than five miles from the company’s corporate headquarters. Granted, he didn’t go straight from the hospital into management. There was some schooling along the way. Shelton, who is now in his 11th year with Chef Works, leadsFIND OUT MORE |

Chef Stefano De Geronimo has had a lot of different titles in a career that stretches back to the 1980s. He’s worked his way up from commis to executive sous chef to executive chef. Somewhere in between he was also an F&B director. For the last two years he’s worked under the title of managingFIND OUT MORE |

Someone questioned on an Instagram photo of chefs Katsuji Tanabe and John Tesar: “Are you two an old married couple who can’t stand each other but can’t bear to be apart for long?” It’s a fair query. The Top Chef frenemies have certainly butted heads on camera. But scan social media and it’s pretty commonFIND OUT MORE |