Stuart Gillies
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
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So it was only really when it was mid 80s and the recession was on and Thatcher was trying to rebuild the country.
And I managed to get on a YTS scheme, which was £25 a week.
You work five days, you go to college one day and you have one day off.
And that gave me
an entrance into a kitchen, local kitchen.
I think they should be doing this now.
Absolutely.
It was something equivalent because you're not the first person, first guest on our podcast who started on a YTS scheme and went on to do brilliant things.
Yeah, because it didn't cost the employers anything.
They had two or three kids who came in on the scheme age.
I was 17.
And I didn't know what I wanted to do.
Stayed on for a year at school.
My brother was a chef at the airport, Gatwick.
So yeah, it's a good laugh in the kitchen.
Go and try it out.
And I went and tried it and loved it, even though I'd never had anything to do with food.
I just loved the atmosphere.
So you're 17 at this point.
17, went in on the YTS scheme, worked a year.
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