Making a career in food production

What is Food Production Course?

Food production, is the study of preparing food. It is the process of transforming raw ingredients into prepared food items.

Food production is a major department in the hospitality industry in which students learn about various aspects of food production such as preparation techniques, cooking methods, kitchen management, food cost control and food quality. The chef is the backbone of the food and beverage department. He has the responsibility of preparing food for the hospitality unit after deciding on the menu. He delegates responsibilities to team and supervises and maintains quality and quantity of food, apart from hygiene, aesthetics, and food storage.

Required Skillset for Food Production

If you have a passion for food and cooking up delicacies, then this is an apt career choice. Broadly speaking, it is desired that students seeking admission in food production course should develop or possess the below skill sets:

Communication skills

Multi-tasking skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work for long hours

Creativity

Physical stamina

Organizational skills

Decision-making skills

Leadership skills

Innovative

Food Production department

By and large, F&B departments comprise of main kitchen, banquet kitchen, soup section, pantry section, pastry section, baking & confectionary section, and vegetable section. These sections may vary based on the scale and star category of a hotel or hospitality establishment.

Job Avenues

Candidates with a degree, certificate or diploma in food production can get interesting career opportunities inIndia and abroad. Candidates can find jobs at various 5-star hotels, restaurants, food courts, cafeterias, banquets, railways, catering establishments, food processing companies, airlines, and multinational hospitality companies. One can even opt for being an entrepreneur and start a restaurant/hotel/café, based on one’s skill sets.

Job Profiles/ Hierarchies

Here’s a snapshot of the kind of job profiles/ hierarchies that can open up after completing a Food Production Course in India.

Food Production Worker: is mainly responsible for preparing meals. Some of the daily responsibilities of a food production worker are storing food properly, operating food processing equipment, maintaining supplies, and assessing quality of food products.

Production Planner: is responsible for planning and operating food production processes. He/ She draws up work schedules in coordination with the production manager and ensures that the schedule is followed properly.

Food Production Manager: is responsible for overseeing food processing facilities and procedures. He/ She supervises employees and monitors product quality at plants that transform raw materials packaged products that consumers buy.

Food Processing Worker: works in the food production line and loads ingredients into industrial equipment. He/ She monitors the machinery during the cooking to ensure that product quality standards are being met.

Quality Systems Manager:monitors production processes to ensure that the end product being produced is in accordance with company standards and industry requirements.

 Food Production Craftsman: is responsible for working in coordination with the customers, crafting models, and creating cuts and patterns for production.

Chef: is the most known profile in the F&B department. A chef is involved from purchasing to deciding the menu, supervising the kitchen, maintaining the quality of food, sanitation standards, and coming up with new dishes. One can become a Chef only after years of experience and a flair for cooking. A Chef, is also responsible for supervising his team. He/she is also responsible for creating recipes, indenting and costing, organization of kitchen, equipments required in the kitchen, recruitment of staff, maintaining the cleanliness, inspecting the quality of raw materials and being aware of safety standards.

Promotion from Asst Commissioned to junior Chef and then to Chef may take years and is highly competitive.

The Hotel School

Is a well-known institute, run by the International Skills Academy that offers degree, diploma courses in hotel management along with a food production course.

The institute has excellent infrastructure facilities, an experienced faculty and an industry specific curriculum.

The Hotel School is an affiliated training provider of Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skill Council and National Skill Development Corporation under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India. It is also the approved Training Hub Partner of Tata Institute of Social Science - School of Vocational Education (TISS-SVE), Mumbai.

The students of its food production course are taught all aspects of this vocational stream and the institute has a good track record of past students who have made a mark for themselves.

If you have the ability and the passion to stir up something in the kitchen occasionally then lookout for a Food Production Course in India. It would be worth ’cooking’ up a career!

Know more please visit:

https://www.thehotelschool.com/food-production-courses-in-india.html

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