Catering Professional
Catering has evolved beyond “deliver food to a venue” into an experience-driven service industry that blends hospitality, logistics, team management, design aesthetics, marketing, and compliance. This course addresses that reality by building skills to produce safe, consistent food at scale, coordinate complex events, and adapt offerings across weddings, corporate events, and social functions—while differentiating through sustainability and technology-enabled operations.
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Catering Professional
Details + Objectives
Course code: GES624
What you will learn
- Plan event menus aligned to guest experience goals, budgets, dietary needs, and production realities
- Apply professional food safety and sanitation practices for catering operations
- Build staffing plans, timelines, and on-site service workflows for successful events
- Create pricing structures grounded in cost control and profit strategy
- Use modern techniques and trend-aware differentiation (e.g., plating, beverage service, global cuisine, sustainability/technology)
How you will benefit
- Gain the operational confidence to execute events smoothly—even when real-world constraints show up (because they will).
- Build a practical, portfolio-ready capstone catering plan you can adapt for real clients
- Improve profitability with pricing, budgeting, and cost-control skills aligned to real catering business decisions
- Expand into new market segments (weddings, corporate, social) with a clear understanding of service models and expectations
- Differentiate your brand with sustainability and modern operations (farm-to-table sourcing, technology adoption, trend positioning)
How the course is taught
- Self-paced, online course
- 6 Months to complete
- Open enrollment, begin anytime
- 100 course hours
Instructors & Support
Chef Brooke Preston is a pioneer in nutrient-dense, healing cuisine, with more than three decades of experience transforming familiar comfort foods into deeply restorative meals that support the body’s innate intelligence. Her work began in 1992 with Tita’s Kitchen, one of the Bay Area’s first meal delivery services focused on whole, healing foods, well ahead of the wellness movement becoming mainstream. As her work evolved, so did her mission: to empower people with practical, delicious ways to reclaim their health.
Requirements
Prerequisites:
No prior experience required. Basic computer literacy is recommended.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac or Chromebook device.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 10 or later.
- Mac: macOS 12 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Any word processing application (not included in enrollment).
- 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.