Culinary Hospitality Enterprise Project
The culinary industry is among the fastest growing segments of the hospitality industry. This course will focus on on-premise culinary arts functions, and the management of large scale, special culinary events. The course will follow contemporary issues and current trends affecting the culinary arts industry.
Human Resources management
This unit requires developing a critical and creative approach to the analysis and application of human resource practices in Swiss hospitality organisations, by encouraging examination and questioning of traditions and the nature of perceived constraints and by expanding thought to broader social, political, and cultural contexts
Culinary Events
The module equips learners with management skills in terms of training, leadership, managing teams, being role models as well as following hygiene protocols and acknowledged behavioural regulations and implementation of the self-service operation. Moreover, they take responsibility to respect standards and quality of service with the Certificate, Diploma and Postgraduate students
Introduction to Marketing
This unit introduces learners to the concept of marketing, the marketing process and the importance of marketing to tourism and hospitality organisations.
Learners will explore the marketing principles of understanding the customer, ensuring that products and services meet with customer needs and how marketing can influence customer behaviour.
They will have the chance to research the marketing strategies of a variety of hospitality operations. They will investigate the basic principles of marketing through an understanding of marketing objectives, marketing mix, market segmentation and marketing communications. Learners will identify the constraints affect marketing for hospitality organisations.
Culinary Arts Concept Development - Theory
Students require to obtain the skills and knowledge needed for understanding gastronomic principles for enabling them to develop products, and services in the industry, while comprehending the need for costing & pricing of these products. In a gastronomical operations environment, it is an expectation from the industrial standards that new entrants can understand and elaborate about the techniques and quality management expertise that is expected beginning from a supervisory level role. Therefore, through this module, students shall receive the knowledge that is involved behind the effective operation of a culinary environment.
Culinary Arts Concept development - Practical
Besides creating menus and implementing yield management practices in a gastronomically operational environment, the industry has an expectation of being able to carry our service and production tasks not by just the chef, but also having the ability to delegate roles on a day-to-day basis for running an efficient and well driven kitchen. Therefore, through gaining an understanding of the modern culinary trends and methods, which will tie-in with the Culinary Arts Concept Development - Theory & Culinary Events modules, students will learn and gain an in-depth understanding of operating most effectively in a gastronomically operational environment.
German Language
This unit will provide an intensive set of grammar and vocabulary practices along with numerous tasks to enhance listening, reading, speaking and writing abilities. The main focus, however, will be put on speaking and writing (grammar, vocabulary). These skills are essentials for the industry students will be working in. In other words, the emphasis within this unit is on communication within the business environment in which students are likely to find themselves when on placement in industry in Switzerland. A good command of the German language is also very beneficial for students who wish to secure placements that have higher levels of face-to-face customer contact.
The Hospitality Trainers and Associates (HTA) School of Culinary Art, an Internationally Accredited Chef School, run under the leadership of Stephen Billingham, former President of the South African Chefs Association, is one of South Africa’s leading Chef Training Providers specialising in modular, outcomes based training and development.
Registered through an internationally recognised awarding body, City and Guilds, as well as South Africa’s Quality Council For Trades & Occupations. HTA has been training Chefs in partnership with the South African food & beverage and hospitality industries since 1996, producing many of the country’s most talented Chefs.
HTA was established in 1995 to provide Culinary students, from school leavers to corporates, with a fundamental grounding in all disciplines relating to the production of top quality cuisine and the ability to manage a kitchen. This award winning school offers unparalleled opportunities to acquire both theoretical knowledge and carefully monitored practical training in their state-of-the-art facilities.
HTA School of Culinary Art is one of four Progressive Chef Training divisions of HTA group of Companies, the other three divisions of HTA predominantly focus on Chef Training Programmes for employed persons currently working in the Hospitality industry. These Programmes are offered to Up-Skill and Certify hundreds of Cooks, Chefs and Caterers each year across all levels and Sectors in the Industry. This valuable side of our business, working with and having industry Chefs is a reservoir of knowledge and experience, which is passed on to all full time students through our Programmes.
HTA School of Culinary Art is committed to providing training that remains at the forefront of global culinary trends. With established relationships with top hotels, restaurants and catering companies in Gauteng, students have the opportunity for practical application of their theoretical knowledge and ensuring that practical elements of the course are completed with reputable Chefs in a carefully structured, planned and moderated way.
Each student also receives membership to the South African Chefs Association, with the objective of further enhancing the students’ professional approach. This allows each student access to regional and national competitions, food festivals, chef conferences and networking opportunities with professionals in the industry.