ACF Kitchen Management and Culinary Training (Voucher Included)
This culinary arts and kitchen management bundle provides comprehensive online training in professional culinary skills, food safety, and kitchen operations. The program combines Rouxbe’s Professional Cook Certification course, a World Food Safety Organization (WFSO) food safety pathway, and a dedicated seven-unit Kitchen Management curriculum to help you build the technical and operational skills needed for success in professional foodservice environments.
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ACF Kitchen Management and Culinary Training (Voucher Included)
Details + Objectives
Course code: GES630
What you will learn
- Apply professional kitchen standards for mise en place, safety, sanitation, knife handling, equipment care, and efficient workflow
- Select and use dry-heat, moist-heat, and combination cooking methods to prepare vegetables, grains, pasta, eggs, meats, poultry, fish, stocks, soups, sauces, breads, pastries, and plant-forward dishes
- Develop flavor, seasoning, plating, nutrition, and menu-planning strategies for professional food service and varied dietary needs
- Implement food protection practices involving personal hygiene, cross-contamination prevention, time and temperature control, facility management, and food safety management systems
- Calculate food and labor costs, assess menu profitability, and support budgeting, purchasing, receiving, inventory, and waste-control decisions
- Apply supervisory and leadership practices for communication, staffing, training, motivation, conflict resolution, time management, and legal and ethical workplace responsibilities
- Coordinate dining room and beverage operations, including guest service, point-of-sale processes, front-of-house/back-of-house communication, and responsible alcohol service.
How you will benefit
- Complete an integrated pathway that combines professional cooking, food safety, and kitchen management in one program
- Build job-ready skills for progression from line cook, prep cook, or sous chef into kitchen supervision, management, or culinary entrepreneurship
- Strengthen operational decision-making through food and labor cost control, menu engineering, purchasing, receiving, inventory, and waste management
- Explore potential pathways for up to six transferable college credits through American Council on Education (ACE) review (subject to the policies of the receiving institution)
- Earn a Rouxbe certificate after successfully completing the Professional Cook Certification course
- Benefit from 215 ACF CEHs recognized for the Professional Cook Certification course, which may be applied toward ACF certification or recertification requirements
- Prepare for the WFSO Food Protection Manager certification exam and use the included exam voucher (subject to current voucher terms)
How the course is taught
- Self-paced, online course
- 12 Months to complete
- Open enrollment, begin anytime
- 410 course hours
Instructors & Support
Rouxbe
This is not an instructor-facilitated course; however, the program’s curriculum is authored and guided by an elite team of world-class chefs, educators, and food anthropologists with a combined total of over 125 years of professional foodservice and academic leadership experience. The development team features executive-level instructors and former administrators from elite traditional brick-and-mortar institutions, including Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America and the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).
Requirements
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Certification Requirements:
Open to all candidates. Course meets certifying board recommendation for food safety and hygiene training.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 10 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Microsoft Word Online
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
More About
World Food Safety Organization’s Food Protection Manager (FPM) Exam
The primary purpose of the WFSO USA FPM Exam is the evaluation and certification of those candidates who wish to secure or maintain Food Protection Manager Certification in accordance with the criteria and standards established by the Conference for Food Protection, and the FDA Food Code. It is designed to test and assess food managers on knowledge, skills, and abilities relevant to the prevention of foodborne illness and meet the requirements for a Certified Person in Charge of a food service operation serving the public.
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