Spencer Metzger

Premier Sous Chef, The Ritz

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Podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation. Listen now.

In this, the second episode of Designed for Life released around a food theme in five days, we talk with Spencer Metzger Premier Sous Chef at the Ritz, London. 

In this conversation we follow Spencers journey from school where he enjoyed food design and preparation in his Food technology lessons making jam roly poly, to a work experience placement at the Ritz obtained by cold calling the restaurant and asking nicely if they would take a 'young lad' on a weeks placement. To his current role as Premier Sous Chef at one of the highest profile restaurants in the world and Roux Scholar 2019. 

This is an amazing story of opportunity, the need for hard work and self belief and the need for self evaluation and assessment, to quote Spencer "I know the Roux Scholarship is the pinnacle competition for chefs, I wasn't going to enter until I thought I had a chance of winning, I didn't enter with expectation but I knew I had a chance". 

I know that you will enjoy this conversation as we speak with a chef that I think everyone will have heard of in the not too distant future. 

Listen to the clips below and come back and listen to the full podcast

• Half an hour to research a dish
• I was quite good at school and quite enjoyed it
• Seven Days a week, twenty four hours a day
• The theatre around a good dish