This exciting course is about putting your business hat on and learning how to develop new food products or services for today’s market. Build on your Level 5 cooking or baking knowledge and learn the process of taking your food dream from concept to reality, along with a range of core management skills.

 

Learn  invaluable business strategy skills and the latest food industry trends as you research, develop and design a new food product or service - pitching it, testing it and tweaking it to get it ready for market. 

 

You will be busy cooking, developing menus, styling food, learning how to photograph the food and creating a blog to showcase it all as you learn about customer engagement and marketing strategy.

 

We’ll also each you about core management skills, duties and responsibilities in the food industry, including finance, operations, sales and marketing. 

 

The course includes a 20 week internship, where you’ll put your new business and management knowledge to the test in a commercial culinary business - making you highly employable or ready to go out on your own.

 

A taste of what you will learn

• Culinary practice and how to showcase and style food that appeals to customers

• How to create a food blog

• The latest food trends and developments within the global culinary  industry

• Build the skills to develop, design and test new food products that meet today’s customer demand

• Core management skills, duties and responsibilities in the food industry. 

• Gain real work experience by completing a 20 week internship in a culinary business