White Man Denied from being Hibachi Chef

It is always nice for a person of an impressionable age to see a role model that looks like them. For young people with dreams and aspirations, this can help shape our future.

Black children have Barack Obama as an influence. French people can look up to Remy from Ratatouille. Well, French people would need to look down because he is a small rat. Rats are gross. But not Remy.

So why do I not feel represented in the hibachi community? I want to cook hibachi, but I don’t fit the quota. Nobody that fits the description of Ethan Hurwitz has ever been a hibachi chef, at least not that I am aware of. I am extremely upset and this needs to change.

For years, it has been my dream to become a hibachi chef and yet, people who look like me are not welcomed in these illustrious positions.

I don’t want to come out and say that are discriminating against me, a white male, but they are discriminating against me.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has heard my complaints. They have listened to me and laughed at me. They thought it was a joke.

A white man cooking hibachi? They said it was fucking hilarious.

“You suck, I hate you,” Zacari Discriminateson told me when I went in to complain. “Now get out of my office, so I can do some blow.”

Is it because I don’t eat the fried rice they offer you at the meal? Is it because I get a double order of noodles? Maybe it is because I think the desserts they offer are disgusting, huh? I need answers because this has been my dream for, like, a few years. I don’t really remember when it started, but it has been a dream.

I have sat down with a number of hibachi locations in my local area and have turned down based on how I look. Am I qualified? That is beside the point. I know how to put food on a flat-top stove. I want to cook the food and deserve to. Just because I am a white male does not disqualify me for this job.

Companies are required to post a notice stating that these places of employment are not allowed to discriminate based on race/color according to the rules set by the EEOC. I do not believe the hibachi industry has followed these guidelines. They don’t even have that poster hanging up in the kitchen. Well, they might, but they haven’t let me in the kitchen.

WHICH IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM.

“No thank you,” hibachi mogul Roger McMisoSoup said in a recent attack on my dreams. “I don’t want to hire you because you are not Japanese. I am discriminating against you.”

Now I am a realistic man. I know that there may be some who are out there who are more qualified than me. I get that. I am just a 19-year-old with aspirations. But to see my dreams being thrown out the window by people who do not want to see me succeed is unacceptable.

Having to type this makes me very emotional. It is a difficult topic for me to discuss. My family does not believe in these goals, they think I am a laughing stock.

Maybe I am a laughing stock. A laughing stock who wants to see change in the world. This week, I am planning to protest this discrimination as the local hibachi establishment. I did this back home in Massachusetts and they threw me onto the grill. Imagine that.

Not only has my emotional state been crushed, so has my physical well-being. Being spit on, abused, given not enough noodles when I order double noodles. It is unacceptable.

This is my plea, this is my dream. I don’t care if I am the first white hibachi chef. I just hope to inspire a young boy or girl to fight for their dreams. As someone who does not feel represented within this industry, it would be a god-send to see someone who looks like me finally be given the opportunity.

I want to be a figure who helps the world become a better place. Like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. or Remy from Ratatouille. I just want to be a hibachi chef.