He also won the Newcomer Award at the 1987 The Catey Awards, run by The Caterer magazine. In 1987, White opened Harveys in Wandsworth Common, London, where he won his first Michelin star almost immediately, and his second a year later. He then branched out on his own, working in the kitchen at the Six Bells public house in the Kings Road with assistant Mario Batali. He continued his training under Pierre Koffman at La Tante Claire, moving to work in the kitchen of Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir, and later with Nico Ladenis of Chez Nico at Ninety Park Lane. In 1981, he went to London with '£7.36, a box of books, and a bag of clothes', and began his classical training as a commis with Albert and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche. White first trained at Hotel St George in Harrogate and then at the Box Tree in Ilkley. He left Allerton High School in Leeds without any qualifications and decided to train as a chef like his father. Marco Pierre White was born in Leeds on 11 December 1961, the third of four sons born to Maria-Rosa Gallina, an Italian immigrant from Veneto, and Frank White, a chef.
5.1 Treatment of customers and employees.
