Professional Foods program at Center for Technology, Essex.
The Professional Food Services 1 Program provides students with both basic and advanced technical skills and essential worker traits to secure and retain employment in the food service field (restaurants, hotels, college cafeterias, etc.). Students work and learn in a commercial kitchen and use professional equipment as part of their training. Part of the instruction includes operating the Center’s student-run bakery and restaurant. Students work and learn in a fast-paced, physically demanding, constantly changing, and very realistic setting. Students are introduced to all aspects of the food service industry including basic weights and measures, food service safety and sanitation, product identification, supervisory skills, time management, and basic computer skills. Proficient skill development, use of commercial restaurant equipment, mastering food service competencies, developing good work habits, learning to work as part of a team as well as learning how and why things are done in a commercial kitchen are very important.
