As profiled recently in Rapid Growth, GRCC's Secchia Institute for Culinary Education is now offering CA 251 - Personal and Private Chef, opening another avenue for students to pursue as a career. The announcement of this new course kicked off with an event featuring Candy Wallace, founder of the American Personal and Private Chef Association (APPCA) . Click here for an interview with GRCC professor Audrey Heckwolf, a former personal chef who has helped initiate this innovative new course.

Course Description:

Personal/Private Chef Business (CA 251) will examine the intrinsic details to being a personal or private chef. The course is designed for second year culinary arts and culinary management students who have already successfully completed prerequisites. This elective will allow students the opportunity to create a personal business strategy, including marketing, menu design, liability, forms of ownership, financing, and customer service with an emphasis on a step-by-step understanding of how students can begin their own personal chef business.

Students must apply to GRCC. This application is available on www.grcc.edu/apply. Before signing up for CA 251 students must complete the following prerequisite classes.

Prerequisites: The following prerequisite classes must be taken with a grade of C- or better in the following classes:

CA 105 Skill Development (5 credits/12.5 contact hours) -
CA 111 Restaurant Sanitation and Safety
CA 112 Menu Planning and Nutrition
CA 115 Table Service

Date/Time: Winter 2010: Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00-4:00 p.m. (February 25-April 29, 2010)

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