Students thinking about a career in culinary
arts have a huge opportunity in front of them.
With a lot of different paths. The national
restaurant association predicts by the year
2023 an additional 1.3 million jobs will be
added. And those jobs include positions in
restaurants, such as a cook, line cook, sous
chef,
a chef, a general manager. There are so many
other opportunities in this industry. Maybe
a personal chef where you go into somebody's
house and cook meals for them because they're
too busy with their family and work. Maybe
you want to explore the world and be on a
cruise ship and prepare food for thousands
of people everyday. Maybe you want to go to
Disney World and work there. There's a lot
of different opportunities. Maybe you would
like to
to be a photographer and you're gonna be a
food blogger
and take pictures, writing articles and testing
recipes. There's a whole variety of opportunity
in this industry.
Lincoln Land has a truly
state of the art facility. When students walk
into our labs I think immediately they just
can tell this is the place for them. We offer
a food production lab, a baking lab, and we
also offer a line kitchen that is used as
a part of a real world dining experience
at Bistro Verde. Students can take two semesters
of operating a real working cafe where they
are the ones designing the menus, serving
the food, acting as a general manger, dealing
with the issues that arise from it but really
it is all about them understanding how to
operate in the real world.
At Lincoln Land's Culinary Arts program we
are very proud of the fact
that all of our classes are taught by industry
professionals and trained chefs.
Students pursuing their associates degree here get
to operate a real working restaurant and cafe.
Culinary students operate the back of house
cooking lunches to order. Hospitality students
run the front of the house working as hostesses,
servers and general mangers. Baking and pastry
students get to provide all the desserts.
If a student is pursuing an associates degree,
which we've got opportunities in culinary
arts and hospitality management, if they are
looking at taking 15 credits or more
per semester they can be done in two years.
Our certificate programs, we've got one in
baking and pastry and one in culinary arts
and again if they are taking 15 credits or more
they can be done in two semesters, so just
one year.
