What are the characteristics of a chef?

You need to be flexible and patient. You need to be prepared to work as part of a team, eg you can't expect the waitresses to help you out at busy times if you are not prepared to muck in and help them with the dishes or preparing puddings.

You need to be prepared to work hard, be good at organizing for ordering stock. You can't be too arrogant, no-one is to good to clean and a good chef won't work in dirty kitchen, so if you don't have a kitchen porter, you have to do it yourself!

you have to step in sometimes and take out food, be prepared to deal with anything that is thrown at you, improvise.

You also need to have good memory to remember what you are doing.

you will also have put up with a few big mess's in the kichen but dont panic