Dream Interpretation help please?

Hi, I had a really strange dream last night and I need some help interpreting it.

I somehow lost my job (which didn't happen in my dream, I just knew I did) so I was walking down a street looking for work but it was mostly a residential neighborhood. Then I came across this really decrepit restaurant and I walked in and there was nothing dividing the kitchen from the dining area. The kitchen was really dirty, everything was brown with grease and dirt and it opened up to an area with wooden booths and everything in the restaurant was brown...not like grease, more like that nasty brownish color that the walls get when people have smoked indoors for a long time. Tobacco stained. So anyways, I went in and even though they weren't hiring I kind of hired myself and told the chef he needed my help. The chef was this really tall and very overweight man and his apron looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. He let me take over in organizing things and decorating and then my friend came and joined in my effort. Then it seemed like time passed without me noticing it and the restaurant looked much better and we had changed the menu and there was a private room behind the kitchen and we were serving dinner to this very big Italian family, there were at least 20 of them in this room. We were bringing them in wine in these really pretty bottles that looked more like giant perfume bottles. They were celebrating something. Everyone was having a great time. Then this guy came in (and here's where it gets weird and disturbing) he was dressed all in black but he had this weird blue mask over half of his face like Sub Zero from Mortal Combat. If you don't know who that is, here's an image:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r640Acq-Dx8/hqdefault.jpg

The only thing that was "Sub Zero" about this guy was the blue mask on his face. Other than that, he was dressed in this loose fitting black cloth. Anyways he takes out a torch and sets one of the draperies on fire and everyone runs out and outside there are women in black hijabs with the veil standing around. The woman closest to the open front door calmly takes a flame and sets her head on fire. The top of her head is in flames and she's just standing there.

I run out the back and there are more women just like her just standing around like they aren't feeling any pain but the tops of their heads are on fire. So I run away and I get to the police department and I am trying to get them to take me back there so I can get my purse. All I can think about is how much I need to get my stuff out of there.

So for the record, I haven't played Mortal Combat in over 10 years. I haven't watched Hell's Kitchen in over a month and although I watched the news last night surprisingly the war wasn't mentioned. I also didn't eat any weird food before I went to bed. ;)

I am pretty sure this dream is rich with symbolism and I would like your take on what kind of symbolic messages this dream could have. The women with the hijabs were most interesting, I woke up very disturbed by those images.

Thank you in advance for your help with this!