The opportunity for success in the world of the culinary arts is bigger than ever, and you can lay a solid foundation for an illustrious career by taking part in a culinary certification program. In this quickly changing and high-demand industry, accomplishment hinges not only on creative skills but also on the working experience and knowledge that are required to adapt to a dynamic environment.
Over the course of gaining certification, you’ll learn and grow through a combination of classical culinary methods and modern kitchen technology—and you’ll acquire the expertise with which you can build a career in the field.
Culinary Arts
Want a plum role in a rewarding career that’s selling – and hiring - like hotcakes? Try being an executive chef, restaurant manager or a patisserie baker. There is a culinary arts degree for you whether you’re stumped by boiling water or spicing your way out of a mid-career rut.
Feed your inner chef: Enroll in baking and patisserie, professional culinary arts, or program. Or feed your outward leader: You may not be a whiz in the kitchen – but what about between the farm and the kitchen, or the kitchen and dining room? Enroll in an up-to-date hospitality and restaurant management curriculum that addresses all aspects of managing restaurant facilities.
Classical and contemporary cooking techniques pair well in our associate’s, bachelor’s and diploma certification programs. Recipes are timeless, but evolving 21st century restaurant management disciplines demand up-to-date and industry relevant training in hospitality management, cost control, cooking technology and wine. They also demand an international flavor: World-renowned Le Cordon Bleu’s program combines classical French techniques with modern American technology.
Imagine a faculty composed of over 80 distinguished Master Chefs. Imagine packing 5-star education, 10-course meals into as little as 18 months to earn a degree. Imagine fast degrees, with a slow-food gourmet philosophy. Start serving a new career in culinary arts today.
Baking and Pastry
Sugary, show-stopping masterpieces are the stuff of fantasies, bakery income and admiration of peers. With a degree, you can learn to bake cakes and eat them too.
Take your career – and dough – to new heights with our pâtisserie and baking program. Get hands-on pastry chef training – food chemistry, sanitation, dietetics, nutrition, kitchen management and communications. Then put you your training into practice with a paid externship that solidifies your career path and connections to food-based businesses.
These programs are tailored for the aspiring pastry chefs, confectioners, cake decorators and caterers. Regardless of the role, you’ll learn other pastry kitchen duties that go beyond the dough:
- Ordering from vendors
- Menu planning
- Oversee kitchen staff and apprentices
- Pairing desserts with entrees and appetizers
It can take as little as 30 weeks to earn a degree that will land you a plum role a professional pastry kitchen. In that short time frame, the program evenly paces you from the fundamentals to advanced techniques – in a skill “layering” style. At the Kitchen Academy campus, you get accelerated training in breads, confections, dessert plating, decorating and more.
Hospitality Management (resorts and hotels)
Tourism is not all sun and beaches. Health tourism, receptive tourism (to boost GDP in developing nations), sustainable tourism, eco-tourism and “voluntourism” all push the traditional travel envelope. International arrivals raked in US$ 680 billion in 2005, making the travel and hospitality industry one of the country's largest and fastest-growing employment sectors.
Faster railway speeds and jumbo-jet airplanes have made tourism easier. Likewise, online hospitality and restaurant management programs mean you can learn the industry 100% online – without travelling to campus.
Air-ship hotels, space travel and underwater hotels are redefining travel frontiers. Whatever tomorrow’s trends hold, a hospitality management degree will prepare you for the fast-changing travel industry. You’ll learn specific skills like operating an airline reservation system, managing hotel front offices and planning global tours and cruises.
Time and place is ripe for a career in hospitality. It's a small world, after all. Imagine a degree that allows you flexibility and a license to travel. You'll use
Foodservice Management
The business of food is so all-encompassing that what happens outside the kitchen is as critical as what happens inside it. There’s a good chance that dedicated foodservice professionals made your most recent meal possible (if not delicious): Restaurants, cafeterias and catering operations, to name a few.
With a specialized hospitality management degree, you get hands-on experience that really sprinkles magic words into your resume:
- Hire personnel
- Maintain accounts
- Inventory control
- Conduct business operations
As more companies seek specialized training in hotel, restaurant or resorts, these skills will send your resume to the top of a the stack. With an online degree, you’ll get a broad perspective of hospitality and restaurant management principles which drive and sustain the foodservice industry. You’ll also be able to apply food and beverage management to hospitality operations and resort management.
How did your meal get from the farm to the factory, the factory to the warehouse, or from the farm to your table at your favorite restaurant? Thank the foodservice industry. Everything from kitchen utensils to packaging, labeling plays a role.
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