I have long been of the opinion that the restaurant industry is a fairly ruthless, cut-throat environment.

Perhaps I have been too heavily influenced by what has been portrayed on TV, but in my head professional kitchens have always looked like some strange hybrid of Hell’s Kitchen and The Bear.

Big personalities, big ambitions and, naturally, even bigger egos.

Recently, however, I have had to rethink that rather dramatic narrative.

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Over the past few months myself and Irish News videographer Dylan Hegarty have been working on a new social media series called Last Orders.

For those of you who have yet to watch or read it (why........

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