{"id":15322,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinnacle-people.ap.applyflow.com\/the-alarming-rate-of-chef-suicide\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-alarming-rate-of-chef-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/the-alarming-rate-of-chef-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alarming Rate of Chef Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It feels as though there\u2019s been a spike in chef suicides of late. In recent years, we\u2019ve mourned the loss of Anthony Bourdain, Jeremy Strode and Justin Bull, just to name a few.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The thing is, this isn\u2019t just recent and it\u2019s not limited to well-known chefs; it\u2019s a long held problem in hospitality. The pressures of a fast-paced, intense industry causes strain on many people\u2019s mental health. Of course Hospitality is not the only industry with high rates of suicide &#8211; Medical and Mining are others that feature on this sad list.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We\u2019ve previously spoken about the factors that lead to a high rate of mental health issues in hospitality and small things we can do to start making changes (link to article: <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/news\/mental-health-in-hospitality\/43579\/\">https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/news\/mental-health-in-hospitality\/43579\/<\/a><\/u>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Something good to come out of such a gloomy issue is that many leaders in hospitality and starting to raise awareness and make changes from the inside to address and support their employees\u2019 mental health.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This comes from chefs who have experienced their own struggles with mental health and want to help prevent others from going through the same thing, to those who have supported or, at times, lost family members to the dark side of the industry. This also includes those who develop problems with alcohol and drug abuse \u2013 something that is also at an incredibly high rate of occurrence in hospitality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This is why Pinnacle People founded The Kettle Foundation. It supports hospitality workers battling alcoholism with rehabilitation and education.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It\u2019s also important that as a wider communitywe\u2019re becoming more aware of the problems, and are talking about it and how to help the situation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Hospitality is an amazing industry and is full of people with passion who find great joy in what they do. Let\u2019s work to keep that spirit alive and thriving.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of suicides in recent years has put a spotlight on the dark side of hospitality, but also how we can bring back the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}