Jordan Murphy

I'm from a small town in WA South by the name of Bunbury. My culinary career started when I was 14, working casually in a little cafe in a town called Balingup.

Eventually I wanted more I wanted to learn and grow so I moved Bunbury and started my apprenticeship as a chef at a place called the Crooked Carrot Cafe in Myalup. Here I spent the next two years completing my chef’s apprenticeship with my head chef Luke Normington, I was only 19 at this point. Now the Crooked Carrot is an extremely busy cafe on the highway between Perth and Margaret River, so a real snapshot into what chef life was about started here and I'm very grateful for doing my apprenticeship here because it has taught me so much about resilience. 

 After completing my apprenticeship with the Crooked Carrot, I went on to be a CDP in The Dardanup Tavern. Not long into my time at The Dardanup Tavern I became head chef at a very young age of 21. Becoming the head chef was very challenging as a young chef and a young female chef stepping into such a high leadership role, it took some time to learn to figure out how everything works and how to be a head chef and to be a good head chef. Eventually I worked it out and all was smooth sailing from there on. I spent the next two years at the tavern as their head chef and had a wonderful time. 

 I then decided to see what the big smoke was like (Perth city), so I packed up everything and I moved to Perth exactly 2 years ago today. I landed the most amazing job as a venue manager at a place called the Beach St Co in East Fremantle along the swan river now being a venue manager is not something that I have ever done but I wanted to give it a go, I wanted to see what the other side is like, again it took a lot of hard work to be able to figure out how to be a venue manager because I had never been one but eventually again I got there and I have now been there for coming up on two years again at a very young age of 24. 

During these career movements I have competed in over 15 competitions, state, national and international. I have placed in every single competition ranging from bronze, silver and gold. 

I have received scholarships and apprentice is of the year through TAFE. I have also recently committed to doing judging and mentoring for the WorldSkills competition and ACF. I have squashed a lot of experience and a lot of things into a very small number of years, but I wouldn't have it any other way.