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👨🏾🍳 CHEF / CULINARY PROFESSIONAL
Chefs design menus, cook at volume, manage kitchens, and control food cost and safety.
What you'd do day to day
- • Prep and cook to spec
- • Manage food safety
- • Control inventory cost
- • Lead kitchen staff
Skills that matter
- • Knife skills
- • Timing
- • Leadership
- • Cost math
Training steps
- • Line-cook experience
- • Culinary school labs
Certifications & licenses
- • ServSafe food handler/manager
Every route into this career
Education
Culinary program or kitchen apprenticeship.
College route
Culinary arts or hospitality management degree.
Trade / apprenticeship route
Work up from prep cook through apprenticeship.
Business ownership
Food trucks, catering, and restaurants.
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