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if you want to learn how to cook, don't do it at a chain restaurant. having said that, its not a bad thing to work at chain restaurants though. it'll teach you line skills, knife skill and basic cooking abilities plus you'll find out fast if restaurant life is for you or not but you'll just be a robot.
even working in hotels isn't all sunshine either. sure the pay is good, but even the skill level there can be quite bad as well.
but as scottsman has said earlier, don't put too much emphasis on getting your red seal. it is a joke! the restaurant i work at now, the brigade is only about 10 cooks, but these are cooks from france, england, states and asia yet not one of them has a red seal or cares about getting one. if you want to really learn how to cook, go work abroad and go work in standalone restaurants. i'be been doing this for too long, and seen quite a bit and if i was around your age now, i'd take off to europe or asia.
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