• We are a web site that helps to fill the labour need in the greater Ottawa area. We like to think of ourselves as a localized meeting point for food industry professionals in need... in need of labour, or employment or of resources. Consider us as a "one stop shopping" environment to try and make your lives a little easier.

• You can contact us at Dave@Backofthehouse.ca. Please include who you are, a short description and your URL or email address (or phone number if you don't have a website).

• The emails go to a real person's e-mail box so you can expect a reply in a timely manner. If you send us a message during business hours we will do our best to reply promptly.

• You can contact us at Dave@Backofthehouse.ca. Please include who you are (name of the farm, supplier, resource, etc), a short description and your URL or email address.

• You are. This site is here because of you and your interest in the culinary industry in Ottawa. Whether you are a restaurant owner, cook, chef, supplier or farmer this site acts as a connection point for everyone. No industry, no site.

  On a personnel note, the people behind the scenes of this site are committed professional chefs, cooks and programmers and people like you.

It depends on who you are:

• For Kitchen Labour (Staff): It is completely free, creating, updating and modifying your personal profile, using the resources, and searching the restaurant listings is absolutely free.

   

• For Food Establishments: It is free to create and personalize your profile, updating it as much as you like, using the resource pages, etc. All free, except when it comes to actually publishing your ad and contacting staff.

• Please refer to our pricing guide for the cost of placing an ad.

• Please do, the papers have been the standard for the longest time, this is an alternative. All we ask is that before you place another newspaper Ad, call Backofthehouse.ca and ask for an estimate. Better yet, we will send you the link to the two local papers and their classified department.

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   We are confident that after finding out the price for a small Saturday listing that you will realize that you can post with us for a week and make your job descriptions as personalized as you need them. Don't forget you are targeting the market for kitchen labour... they're all here. Why would you go anywhere else?

• No. We solely deal with kitchen labour.

• 1 Week.

• No, at this point it is a first come, first serve basis. Your ad will still be their and will still be displayed through search results, it may just be on the second or third page.

• All the listings are of equal importance, it's on a "first come first serve" basis.

• As much as we can, we are firmly committed to the food industry and the Ottawa community it helps to foster. The resource pages are free and one of the banner ads (the top left one) is free to a different charity or operation in need (Red Cross food drive, The Ottawa mission, etc).

• Honestly, to protect you from being seen; no one likes their staff looking for other jobs.

• Yes and no. Restaurants will only be able to see your resume and personal information if you allow them. If a restaurant does a search and finds that they are looking for someone of your professional qualifications, you will receive a notification in your Account Summary. At that time you can chose to let your potential employer see your information (this means, your resume, phone number and email address, etc) so they can contact you.You may of course contact them as soon as you see their ad, keep using that search button.

• Excellent question. Do you know of someone you would like to potentially partner with us and create a local chapter?
   
  Eventually we would like to have Backofthehouse.ca covering all the food industry needs across Canada. One city at a time. Our mandate is to keep whatever location (Ottawa, Montreal, Sunshine Cove, etc) populated with local content only... Local restaurants, staff, farms and suppliers. Each location will vary in size from a small hamlet to a large city. First Ottawa, then Canada and then the World.