Injured staff | Worker files lawsuit against celebrity chef's restaurant

Kitchens are infamously high stress and often very unconventional workplaces, however, they are still held to the same standards of legal work conduct as everywhere else.

Often, a somewhat unspoken code of etiquette within professional kitchens means that those in the career of food preparation don’t consult HR on the issues they face whilst in that environment. A recent case comes from the kitchen of Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant in which a 28-year-old pastry chef has launched a £200,000 lawsuit against the company which evidences that such incidents can occur.

The chef is suing the company after reportedly suffering from ‘chronic wrist pain and repetitive strain from being ordered to create thousands of chocolate playing cards and whisky wine gums’ - The Daily Mail reported.

Her lawyers are justifying the claim by stating that, whilst injuries are commonplace in professional kitchens, Anderson was ‘pushed too hard’ to complete the desserts and carry out repetitive tasks by Blumenthal’s staff, and that giving her work which was ‘too fast and arduous’ is negligence on their part.