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Pizzerias in Italy and in other parts of the world need to hire pizza makers, but what is still missing are pizza makers.
In recent years job advertisements as pizza makers have increased significantly, but entrepreneurs and restaurateurs are struggling to find these professional figures.
The web is chock full of advertisements for pizza makers but the curricula are struggling to arrive. Why?
Italy, spaghetti, pizza and mandolin… But nobody wants to be a pizza chef!
Although Italy is the country of pizza, it seems that there are still few professionals who have obtained a specialization to practice the profession of pizza maker.
According to some data released by the National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises (Cna), in Italy in 2022 over 120.000 were the restaurants, pizzerias, hotels and other refreshment points that produced and served pizza to customers. At the same time these structures are constantly looking for pizza makers and fear the worst when someone has to replace these figures.
These data should make all aspiring pizza makers think, but especially those who don't have a stable job and have to weigh on their parents' shoulders.
What is the salary of a pizza maker in Italy?
“I don't do this job because they pay me little!”
Unfortunately, false beliefs and fake news when it comes to salaries are always lurking.
A basic salary of an assistant pizza maker starts from 1200 euros per month up to over 1500 euros, a professional can exceed 2000 euros. Not to mention the high earnings of those who are pizza chefs abroad in some parts of the world. Suffice it to say that the average price of a margherita pizza in a pizzeria in the United States of America is around thirty dollars.
What are the reasons that slow down the applications of pizza chefs?
The world of work is very delicate, we can say that in Italy according to some Istat data, about 500 people have stopped looking for work, especially young people.
The motivation for this refusal by the unemployed to look for a job may be due to the lack of a focus on a professional level, being satisfied with occasional, generic and sometimes undeclared jobs.
Another cause that could justify the decline in the search for a job are state subsidies, such as the dc, which in a certain sense immobilize people from any initiative by canceling any stimulus for growth in them.
Another factor that hinders the growth of new pizza makers in Italy are the false prejudices that surround this work.
Many people complain that it is very heavy and unrewarding work. Instead, those who decide to pursue a career as a pizza maker can count on a rosy and profitable future.
Precisely because the demand for pizza chefs is great and the offer is very little, anyone who decides to be a pizza chef today has the ability to count on a secure job for the next 40 years. The world of Made in Italy branded food is constantly growing, especially abroad, Italian pizza is a highly sought-after and highly consumed meal everywhere.
How do you become a pizza maker?
To carry out this profession it is important to follow adequate training courses capable of transferring transversal skills to the candidate at 360 degrees, avoiding bogus one-week courses that are useless.
Today Pizza Italian Academy is an academy that represents "the" international point of reference for all those people who intend to leave their comfort zone and want to specialize to work in Italy and abroad in a constantly growing sector.
Becoming a pizza maker with the support of the Academy is a guarantee, it means entering the world of work right away, also helped by our technical support www.piajob.com the job site specialized in the catering sector, taking a course with Pizzaitalianacademy means sewing on a highly sought-after and highly respected profession.
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