Catering
Your training in the catering department will give you a wealth of experience from menu planning to food preparation and cooking, to meal presentation. All of this is in our well-equipped kitchen facilities that are designed to commercial catering specifications. You will gain skills in a wide range of dishes as you prepare top quality meals for everyone at the foundation each day. All of this will set you up for a career in the catering industry, where opportunities are enormous and varied.
Our Catering Department can help you to...
- Prepare and produce meals from street food to fine dining
- Get Food Hygiene & Emergency First Aid qualifications
- Experience in a working kitchen catering for everyone at the Foundation
- Being creative and learning about taste and ingredient combinations
- A college course NVQ L2 for trainees who prove themselves
- No prior experience is necessary as full training is given
Our Programme
Our Level 1 course lasts 3 months. Level 2 is a further 3-month placement. Please read the ‘Length of Stay’ section on our Referrals page for more information.
Level 1 is about learning the basics of the trade and gaining work experience.
Level 2 is about Increasing your work experience and skill level.
By the end of Level 2, trainees will usually have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:
- Driving Theory
- Emergency First Aid
- Manual Handling
- Basic Food Hygiene
Examples of dept skills you can learn:
- Opening and Closing Checks
- Cross Contamination
- Cleaning
- Chilling
- Cooking and Re-heating
- Colour Coding
- Risk Assessments
- Hygiene
- Storage
- Knives
- Identify and prepare different vegetables & fruit
- Pastry & bread skills
- Sauces
- Fish & shellfish
- Meat, game & poultry
- Fine dining
Catering Department Highlights
Enjoying another tasty meal made by #catering in the dining room at Camelia Botnar
Another delicious meal from #catering
An amazing cake from a star trainee in our #catering dept where we do work based training setting young people up for good jobs in the industry
Masters at work in #catering producing super duper deserts as part of our practical training programme for young people who need the unique opportunity we provide at www.cameliabotnar.com
Xmas vibes are here! Making the gingerbread house in #catering
The finished product ...yummy #catering
Making pizzas with style! #catering where we train disadvantaged young people and they build experience and a portfolio to take them into brilliant careers
