Marcus Wareing blasts young workers for being lazy and clueless He said: "Young chefs who want to be at the top, but don't want to put the work in. Young people come into your kitchen judging you rather than us judging them. Do you know what? If it carries on the way it is there's going to be no future. There's no two ways about it, you put the graft in whether you like it or not. You don't put the graft in, you don't get to the top. End of story. He said that many new cooks only wanted to know how many hours they had to work or how many holidays they were going to get. "You know what, do me a favour, mate," he said. I'll do it myself. I'd rather do it myself than have some a***hole stand in my kitchen and think he's better than me or bigger than me. I'm 42 this year. I've 27 years' experience. I don't need to be told by some 19-year-old what I should and shouldn't be doing. And they do. You'd be amazed. Because in today's world they can walk out of one job and into another and into another. The industry needs to stop and close the door. We need to clamp down. There's a recession on out there at the moment. It's not easy. And young people haven't got a clue. He said that many were oblivious to the recession. "If I stood 10 or 15 people in front of me between the ages of 16 and 21 and asked them to tell me about the depth of the recession, the biggest percentage won't know," he said. They are oblivious to what's going on in the world - got no money, don't save, don't know what a mortgage is, couldn't tell you what interest rates are. My message to anyone that comes to work with me is if you aren't prepared to put the effort in go and find a job elsewhere. Wareing said that cooking shows such as BBC's MasterChef, presented by Gregg Wallace and John Torode, were "brilliant," but they were not passports to success. He said: "They can turf out as much as they like. The key to success is longevity, not a five-minute trip on television, five-minute wonder. Wareing said he offered advice to his chefs and front-of-house team. "I try to wake them up to the reality of life and the world outside," he said. There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university - it was commonsense. Common sense and the value of a pound and how hard you have to work to earn it. I'll never forget that. He said his own children would get the best education he could get them but would still be expected to keep their feet on the ground. I'll give them everything they need to get educated, but when they get in my house a good clip round the ear and a good b******** goes a long way.