Melissa Smart purchased The Junction Café in July 2018 and has fifteen local employees working for her, most of which are women. She’s also taken on a new female apprentice chef!
Mel incidentally started as an apprentice chef at a young age too and believes it’s very important that women are stepping up and becoming chefs as it’s a male-dominated profession. She said her team is like a family and everyone works together to help out with rosters and shifts when they need flexibility, as most of the employees are mums with kids.
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