Further vocational qualification in food services

Further Vocational Qualification in Food Services gives you a qualification either as a restaurant cook or an institutional cook.

The qualification has two competence areas of which you choose one:

1. Competence Area of Restaurant Cookery (restaurant cook)
2. Competence Area of Institutional Catering (institutional cook)

Restaurant cooks and institutional cooks are professionals in food preparation.

If you choose the competence area of restaurant cookery (restaurant cook), you will be working for example in different á la carte restaurants, food restaurants, delivery and catering service companies, and restaurants of passenger vessels and hotels.

If you choose the competence area of institutional catering (institutional cook), you will be working for example in institutional and professional kitchens, in food restaurants of different types, and in delivery and catering service companies.

The employment opportunities in the field are excellent.

Composition of the qualification

The scope of the Further Vocational Qualification in Food Services 150 competence points.

Compulsory unit, 60 competence points

Depending on the chosen competence are, you complete either

• Cooking in a restaurant kitchen, 60 competence points (competence area of restaurant cookery)
  or
• Cooking in an institutional kitchen, 60 competence points (competence area of institutional cookery)

Optional units, 90 competence points

• Preparing special diet meals, 50 competence points
• Preparing vegetarian dishes, 40 competence points
• Preparing dishes served cold, 50 competence points
• Different production methods in cooking, 30 competence points
• Cooking for a catering service, 40 competence points
• Compulsory unit from another competence area, 40 competence points
• A unit from a vocational qualification, another further qualification or a specialist qualification, 10-30 competence points

Read about the qualification criteria: https://eperusteet.opintopolku.fi/#/en/ammatillinen/4454273/tiedot

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