Career as Chef

Career as Chef

Are you willing to stake those evenings and weekends for becoming a chef? Working under humongous pressure sustaining cuts and burns, smoke fumes etc In order to be a professional Chef one needs to be well versed with the management principles other than knowledge to cook various kinds of food. Familiarity with food, revenue   streamlining of Kitchen work, coming up with innovative recipes and catering.

Possessing the right spirit and personality enables a chef to claim Fame and money. The possibility of leading a innovative life and learning over an eternal time horizon enriches the prospects of Success. For aspiring candidates who want to be an Executive chef need twelve years of solid experience in the industry. They are responsible for supervision, menu development, choosing of cuisine, monitoring the supplies and end products promoting a standard governance in the organization.

The other responsibilities of an executive chef include recruitment and training of kitchen staff, scheduling the timetable and hospitality management. Responsibility of a kitchen is shouldered by Sous-chef. Line cook refers to the various other non kitchen-positions in midsized hotels.Inorder to go beyond a stereotype cook more efforts should be regulated and focused towards culinary Arts.

The basic eligibility requires a degree in Hotel Management and Catering Technology that leads to various avenues. Basic qualifications to get into such courses are 10+2 pass. National Council of Hotel Management and Catering Technology conduct exams for short duration certificate course and various other diploma courses. Professional chefs can shape up their future through various streams including Entrepreneurship.

Several Institutes offer various courses depending upon their Infrastructure and Faculty:

Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad

The Oberoi Center of Learning and Development, New Delhi;

Institute Of Hotel Management, New Delhi;

Amity School Of Hospitality, Noida;

Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Goa

State Institute Of Hotel Management And Catering Technology, Thuvakkudi

Government Institutes of Hotel Management and Catering, Dehradun and Almora

The Welcome Group Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal;

National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology, New Delhi; Delhi