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 a foodie idea from concept through 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. The course includes a 20 week paid internship, where you’ll put your new business and management knowledge to the test in a real hospitality or food company.
This course is delivered by The Culinary Collective, New Zealand’s culinary school who are part of NZMA.
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You will learn:
Culinary practice and showcasing food
Food trends and how to create a food blog
Develop a commercial food product or service
Design and test the food product or service
Core management skills, duties and responsibilities in the food industry.
Gain real work experience by completing a 20 week internship in a culinary business
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“As a single parent with three great boys, I’d been out of the workforce for 20 years. NZMA helped me gain a career. Hospitality is a huge industry, and I enjoyed learning about every aspect. With support from NZMA I’m now working, and I’m really happy.”
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