In the dining room or in the kitchen: what do you have to do to work in catering?

Working in the restaurant industry: how to turn a dream into reality

Would you like to work in the restaurant industry but don't know where to start? If you are thinking of entering this sector to start a new career or deepen your experience, you will know that there are many professional roles: from waiter to pizza chef, from cook to sommelier, from dining room manager to restaurant manager.

The first thing to ask yourself to work in the restaurant industry is therefore which of these paths you prefer to take. For each one, it will take a lot of passion, commitment, and dedication: let's see together some suggestions for choosing among the front-of-house and kitchen professions!

How to navigate restaurant professions

As in any sector, there is no easy or difficult path to follow, since the choice must depend mainly on your passions and your skills.

If you are an extroverted person, have good interpersonal skills and are a good communicator, you will undoubtedly be predisposed to front-of-house jobs, whose duties include welcoming customers, taking orders, presenting menu dishes to diners, or managing complaints and special requests.

If, on the other hand, your dream is to cook and you like challenges, then you could choose to start a path to become a pastry chef or professional cook.

3 training paths to work in the restaurant industry

 Once you have decided on the direction to take, it is important to ensure comprehensive training. In fact, as we have just seen, the professions are very different from each other, but each of them requires a solid foundation. Here are some of the paths you could take:

1. Front-of-House and Restaurant Management Course.
   If you aspire to become a restaurant manager, maître d', or sommelier, it is essential to know the main professional service techniques to transform your managerial and relational skills into a real profession! Thanks to ad hoc training, you could work in luxury hotels and restaurants, or become an entrepreneur in the hospitality, restaurant, or bartending sectors.

   
   

   
   
2. Cooking and Pastry Course.

   Attending a course to become a chef means learning to know ingredients well, the various preparation techniques and the use of the tools available, but also learning the basics for working in a professional brigade. Depending on whether you want to specialize in cooking or pastry, you will be able to acquire specific skills and, why not, learn directly from industry experts like established cooks and pastry chefs.

   
   
3. Multidisciplinary Master's.

   Do you want to become a professional in the food & beverage industry, but don't know your calling yet? A solution could be to undertake an interdisciplinary study plan that offers you 360-degree training in cooking, pastry, oenology, and restaurant management. Thanks to a complete front-of-house and kitchen path, you will be able to optimize time and resources and acquire all the main skills useful for working in the restaurant industry.

 Become a restaurant professional with Congusto courses!

If you think that working in the restaurant industry is your true mission, all you have to do is find the study path best suited to achieving your goals.

By choosing Congusto Institute courses, you will be able to enrich your training in the sector that interests you most: in addition to professional cooking courses and the innovative Executive Cooking Master in Food and Wine Disciplines, you will be able to decide to specialize in pastry with the Pastry Chef Course or in baking, with the Bakery Chef Course.

Every study plan includes targeted lessons where theory and practice alternate, to allow you to acquire the skills necessary to become a professional directly in the field. Furthermore, depending on the path chosen, you will be able to learn from a prestigious faculty and meet up close leading personalities of the Italian gastronomic scene including Roberto Carcangiu, Marco Pedron, Sergio Mei, Elio Sironi, Gaia Giordano, Cesare Battisti, Eugenio Boer, Ernst Knam, Corrado Scaglione, Alberto Cauzzi, and many others.

Contact us to receive further information and discover all the courses starting soon.