Are you leaving school soon? Had you been dreaming about the freedom of kitchen innovation and career satisfaction?
It is within your reach to indulge yourself into the aroma and awesome taste of the perfect preparation as an aspiring, hard-working Chef in demand.
Being prepped as a sought-after national or international professional who eat, sleep and drink culinary and service delivery to expectative clientele is more than just Chef training – it is a lifelong passion for food, brilliant new ideas, experimentation, leadership like nowhere else and dedication to your calling.
Are you passionate about food selection, recipe development, kitchen time and compliments? Internationally accredited QCTO Chef training at the François Ferreira Academy in George is not only a world-class qualification – it is an experience of a lifetime. Once you are ready to be moulded into the best Chef you will ever be, you will feel at home at the state-of-the-art facilities at the mecca of Garden Route Chef training.
Are you serious about quality and consistency, creativity and innovation, teamwork and collaboration, safety and sanitation, sustainability and environmental awareness and above all customer satisfaction? Then you may also be paired accordingly to a passion for cooking and food, creativity and innovation, attention to detail and precision and, organizational skills and multitasking. These as the ingredients for a once in lifetime relationship with our academy of excellence.
In addition, you would need physical stamina and endurance, as well as flexibility and adaptability to be a Chef who flourishes within the exciting world of work. As a qualified Chef you will mostly be part of a formidable cuisine team optimising your results and satisfaction through some more pairing of teamwork and communication skills, time management and efficiency and resilience.
The François Ferreira Academy is one of a kind. Integrated in our industry leadership are opportunities to choose the culinary career path of your preference from Diploma: Professional Chef; Diploma in Culinary Supervision and Management; Diploma in Patisserie; Confectionary and Baking or Occupational Certificate: Chef. In addition, we are offering all you will ever need to take care of continuous learning and self-improvement.
Included in your industry required arsenal of culinary skills will be knife skills and food preparation; cooking techniques including roasting, grilling and sautéing and the essentials of kitchen safety and sanitation.
Since your knowledge and practical modules are inseparable at François Ferreira menu planning and recipe development will be as much part of your kitchen dedication as flavour profiling, seasoning, presentation and plating.
Our industry experts who are training under the supervision of Chef Cheri-Lynn Speelman – a product of hands-on personal Chef François Ferreira mentoring – will teach you all you need to know about food allergies and dietary restrictions awareness while familiarising all aspiring Chefs with various cuisines and cooking styles. Once you are shaped into the best Chef you have ever dreamed
to be, experimentation and innovation in cooking will enable you to work with different ingredients and equipment.
François Ferreira Academy students are professionally equipped to run their own enterprises and lead their own culinary teams towards career success. Professional certification is indeed like a culinary arts degree, just much better. Your qualification will include work experience in a kitchen or restaurant; knowledge of food safety regulations; knowledge and experience of kitchen operations and management and customer service and hospitality skills.
As professional culinary workers we are exposed to and furnished with leadership and teamwork abilities, which require strict time and inventory management as well as budgeting and cost control. Once you are driving your own venture or be included in a dynamic professional team your newly acquired marketing and social media skills will be invaluable.
2025 is around the corner, winking at you to courageously step onto your dream career path. You know who you are and what you want. At the Academy in the scenic Garden Route we are excited to meet and welcome you.
If you are interested in culinary training to unlock doors to being an Executive Chef, Sous Chef, Pastry Chef, Line Cook, Chef de Cuisine, Food Stylist, Recipe Developer, Food Critic, Restaurant Owner/Manager or a Culinary Instructor or a Catering or Banquet Manager working in hospitality on land, on the oceans of the world or in airbuses flying around the globe, the François Ferreira Academy has the key to your future. Let’s unlock it!
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