What is a chef's craft worth when AI designs menus and runs the numbers?

The AI now designs menus and runs the numbers you spent years mastering, and it raises a hard question about what your craft is worth. But notice what it is doing, planning and math. Those were skills you built, yes, but they were never the thing that made you a chef. The cooking was. A machine can generate a menu on paper. It cannot taste it, cannot feel whether a dish sings, cannot stand on the line and make it real night after night. Your worth was never in the spreadsheet or the menu draft. It is in the palate, the hands, the years of knowing exactly how something should be. That does not get automated; it gets more rare. So your craft is worth what it always was, more, even, now that the busywork can fall away. This week, take the time the tools save you and spend it on the actual cooking, the part only you can do. That is where a chef's worth has always lived, and it is still entirely yours.