I was reflecting this evening on the student cooks at the Napa Wine Country Culinary Institute and how their graduation would be met with uncertainty finding work in restaurants.
There are three such institutes in the Napa Valley ....
The Culinary Institute of America
The Napa Valley Cooking School
The Silverado Cooking School
Understand that the Napa Valley Wine Country is a hot tourist destination in season and food and drink are top elements for the tourists. It's no accident that these Culinary Institutes exist there.
The
French Laundry Restaurant is a hot spot, serving nine course meals which vary all the time.
The graduates from those schools, likely have little to look forward to. Which brings up another subject, How many restaurants have been forced to close - permanently? I've seen good restaurants close permanently for a lot of reasons, bad economic times, owner deaths, etc., but never pandemic, till now.