Cooking for his guests was uneventful, at least from his perspective. The masterchefs hired by him were a completely different matter.
When Henri informed them their boss areival they were skeptical. At best they thought, he would hover around the kitchen probably disturbing the well oiled 'machine' to some extent, after all they were not ordinary chefs and had prideful personality after honing their craft for years.
If one were to pooled their experience together, it would be more than a century after all they were paid handsomely to work in someone else home rather than in their own restaurant.
Many of them were old chefs who were trying to live their golden years training some of their staff to gather experience but it didn't mean that were slacking off. After all before Samuel's rescue they had to cook for at least two hundred combined staff, a hundred more wasn't that difficult to accomodate.