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Business Classes at Culinary Schools

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A "faire nephew" who cooks in my ren faire kitchen will be starting a 2-year culinary program that leads to an AA from a local college. Something that impressed me is that the first class you take is on business.

 

This is not terrilby important but got me to wondering how common is it . My curiosity question is this: If you went to a culinary school, were business classes offered, and if offered, were they a requirement for completion of your certificate/degree?

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A "faire nephew" who cooks in my ren faire kitchen will be starting a 2-year culinary program that leads to an AA from a local college. Something that impressed me is that the first class you take is on business.

 

This is not terrilby important but got me to wondering how common is it . My curiosity question is this: If you went to a culinary school, were business classes offered, and if offered, were they a requirement for completion of your certificate/degree?

 

Porthos, could you describe the content of that course, or what you think of as a business course? For example, the course description page of our local community college lists "Hospitality Management," "Hospitality Cost Control and Financial Analysis," Hospitality Marketing," and "Entrepreneurship in Hospitality" -- all of which could fall under a business rubric.

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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Porthos, could you describe the content of that course, or what you think of as a business course? For example, the course description page of our local community college lists "Hospitality Management," "Hospitality Cost Control and Financial Analysis," Hospitality Marketing," and "Entrepreneurship in Hospitality" -- all of which could fall under a business rubric.

 

I would if I could. I just know that it is his first class. I am not in contact with him all that much when it is not faire season. I will start seeing him weekends soon. If i know him, he probably doesn't know much about the content, just that it's his first class.

 

Did you have to take any business courses when you were getting your culinary training?

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I did, had to take a class in business management, business math, a class in purchasing, and a communications class -for a pastry degree at LCB. The curriculum has changed since then, though. IMO, purchasing was the best class in the whole program. I really felt like I got a lot of valuable information from it. It also helped that my instructor was hugely knowledgeable; he had owned something like 11 restaurants, each very different from the others.

 

We also had classes on food history, and nutrition.

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I would if I could. I just know that it is his first class. I am not in contact with him all that much when it is not faire season. I will start seeing him weekends soon. If i know him, he probably doesn't know much about the content, just that it's his first class.

 

Did you have to take any business courses when you were getting your culinary training?

 

I'm in a different profession, although I have connections with the college in general, including, indirectly, the culinary program.

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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I'm in a different profession, although I have connections with the college in general, including, indirectly, the culinary program.

 

"My curiosity question is this: If you went to a culinary school ... "

 

You may have indirect ties to the culinary program, but this question was asked of those who went to culinary school.

 

Is there anyone else out there who went to culinary school that would like to answer the question I posted in the beginning of this thread?

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"My curiosity question is this: If you went to a culinary school ... "

 

You may have indirect ties to the culinary program, but this question was asked of those who went to culinary school.

 

Is there anyone else out there who went to culinary school that would like to answer the question I posted in the beginning of this thread?

 

Well, excuse me for trying to be at least a bit helpful by listing the curriculum, even if what I wrote didn't meet the letter of the law.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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