20/03/2026
As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we are shining the spotlight on one of our younger team members, Lars.
The following excerpt is from an assignment Lars recently completed at school:
My name is Lars, I'm 16 years old and this is a story about how cooking made a huge impact on my life.
Throughout my life I had a lot of challenges to overcome because I have level 2 autism which means I could not focus properly in class and I messed up. But I started to step up and get myself together and began to work hard very
hard and it paid off. Working hard opened a lot of doors for me in year 10.
My mum and HASS teacher were looking for a job because I was going into work experience. This is when i really started to become badass at work, l liked cooking when I was little, me and my mum would cook all the time. Over time I fell in love with cooking when I found out I was going to work in a kitchen. I was over the moon.
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The artwork is a watercolour painting that Lars did of himself from a photograph taken in our training kitchen.
Needless to say, we are very proud of Lars and his badass performance!
