Culinary Café open to community
Sept. 13, 2018
If you want to get a taste of what Ashland Community and Technical College’s
culinary arts students do each day, stop by their café for lunch.
Located on the Technology Drive Campus and open to the community, the Culinary
Café is open from 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Monday-Thursday and is operated by students in
the program. Each day, students prepare a made-from-scratch à la carte menu that features
regional and international dishes, such as fried chicken with mashed potatoes, gyros,
pulled pork, bourbon glazed salmon or jerk chicken. In addition to each day’s main
dish and dessert options, there are also burgers, chicken sandwiches and French fries,
as well as a full salad bar.
“Students rotate stations, serving a week to two weeks per station, depending
on the size of the class,” said Peggy Bradley, program coordinator. “Our stations
include bakery, desserts, salad bar, grill and savory food preparations. Students
also serve food to our customers, giving them valuable human resource skills and front
of the house experience.”
In addition to the café, students in the culinary arts program get training in
food safety/sanitation, basic fundamentals of culinary arts profession, baking, meats-seafood’s-poultry,
international and classical cuisine, foodservice cost control and hospitality human
resources management. Students must also pass a national exam in sanitation sponsored
by the National Restaurant Association called ServSafe Certification.
The program offers an associate degree with three different options: Culinary
Arts, Catering and Food and Beverage Management. There are also three diploma and
seven certificate options.
To find out more about the Culinary Arts program, visit ashland.kctcs.edu/education-training/program-finder/culinary-arts.aspx
or contact Bradley at peggy.bradley@kctcs.edu.