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
- Build a portfolio of your work and recipes
- 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
BBQ season has begun! #foundationlife #catering
An outing to pick wild garlic for #catering @ www.cameliabotnar.com
Great vibes in the dining room #catering #foundationlife
Squeezing loads and loads of limes for the marinade in #catering
Prepping the ingredients in #catering where young people in rough situations can come and learn all kinds of skills from.street food to dine dining, then go on to a great job... all at www.cameliabotnar.com
Making the mix for tasty desert in #catering
Enjoying another tasty meal made by #catering in the dining room at Camelia Botnar
Another delicious meal from #catering
