Hi! so my name is Keith Muller. I'm the
Chair of Hospitality and Culinary Arts.
at Conestoga College and it's my great
pleasure to introduce you to the
programs that we offer and to tell you a
little bit about what we do.
It's a very popular program for us and students find
employment in all areas of the
Hospitality and Food Industry. Everything
from small bake shops to the large
Hotels where they can create all the
delicious desserts that we all enjoy so much.
Besides Baking and Pastry Arts we also
have a Common Management which is a
Two-Year Diploma Program and students go
on to great careers Locally or
Internationally and learn so much from
what they do here in the program and
wherever they do choose to travel and
whatever they choose to do there
anything from a Line cook to a Sous chef
to an Executive chef to a Hotel chef
Banquet chef.
The opportunities are endless and also for travel purposes,
you can take your skills wherever you go.
Hotel and Restaurant Management is
another program that we offer and here
we'll teach you how to manage hotels, how to manage small businesses, how to manage
Restaurants and Bars. Event Management is
another one of our programs which looks
at how do you go about planning large
events? How do you go about staging
events and all the different components
offered anything from a Sporting event
to a large dinner function for two-three-
four Thousand people or even Music
events all part of teaching in that
program.
The uniqueness about the school here is the fact that we're a smaller,
more boutique style school so it's very
intimate its one-on-one with all of your
professors you're not in a large school
with thousands of students which gives
you the hands-on training that's
make you successful. All our faculty and
professors are Internationally trained.
We have a Pastry chef that used to be a
Pastry chef in Dubai. She was trained in
in Austria brings all her skills to the
students here as well as we have some
French chefs that were trained in Europe.
We have local Canadian chefs that are very
focused on local sustainable food and
food systems. We also have a full service
industry start restaurant which is open
to the public for lunches and dinners
and that's where our students work.
That's where they get to practice their
skills they get to serve in the front of
the house they get to serve live customers.
The menus change seasonally, so
it's always fresh it's always new.
So in our programs we give students as much exposure as we can to the industry.
In their final semester of Culinary
Management as well as Hotel and
Restaurant Management, they have a
Capstone Project where students have to
prepare an event and present it to the
industry where we invite the industry
partners in to come and see the talent
of the future and come and literally
pick the best of the best that they want
to employ. If you're considering an
exciting career in Hospitality and
Culinary Arts, this is the place to be.
You've got to come here and we'll be
expecting you.
