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From Part-Time Hospo Job to Café Owner
My name is Daniel, and I’ve been in hospitality since it was just a part-time job while I was at uni.
Like a lot of people, I didn’t step into the industry thinking I’d one day own a café. At the time, it was work. A way to earn money. Something practical. But over the years, hospitality became much more than that.
I worked my way through all sorts of roles. Kitchen hand, private butler, corporate hospitality, catering, cook, supervisor, you name it. I saw many sides of the industry, and I experienced hospitality in a time when the standards around pressure, hours, and treatment were very different to what they should be.
This was during the era when pots and pans being thrown in anger was brushed off as normal. Sixteen-hour days without a proper break were accepted. I still remember finishing a job on Cockatoo Island at 5:30 in the morning, only to be left stranded with my colleagues because no boat had been arranged to get us back to the mainland.
There were parts of it I loved, and parts of it I hated.