Career in HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Today, cooking and other services in the hospitality industry is a high flying career option. The skills of a chef today have become very modern and now combine passion, creativity and hard work for the art of cooking. To cater to the ever–growing hospitality industry and demand for professional and competent chefs, courses in food processing, catering technology and other relevant areas are being offered by different Universities/institutions and also the Hotel chains..

he hierarchy of chefs in hospitality industry is something like this:

• Executive Chef - He is in control of everything inside the kitchen including menu creation, personal management and business aspects.
• Sous Chef - He is the assistant chef and looks after menu-planning, costing and ordering.
• Expeditor - They usually make sure that the food is plated in time for the waiters to serve orders.
• Cooks and Assistants - They do assistance in various activities in the kitchen and other Departments in the Restaurant/Hotel

Courses

Following Courses are offered in hospitality and catering industry:-

• a)     -Specialized Certificates Courses
• b)     -Diploma Courses
• c)     -Bachelors courses
• d)     -Postgraduate courses
• e)     -MBA in Hospitality Management

Eligibility Criteria

For seeking admission to Certificate, Diploma and Bachelors courses is 10+2 and for PG courses is Bachelors courses

Job Prospects

After completion of a diploma or the certificate course in Hotel Management, one can join a hotel as an intern or cannot for apprenticeship after 10+2 directly. A trained chef with experience has many employment avenues in Hotels/restaurants, air catering, food processing companies, confectioneries, and corporate catering all require chefs. 

Chef Pay Package

Graduates become trainees, who after being trained are paid about between Rs.7,000 - Rs.10,000. Pay increases with experience.

Institutes/Universities

Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition (21 centres located in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Chennai, Goa, Gurdaspur, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram & other places) provide various courses in the hospitability industry. Besides various Universities/Institutes & Management Institutes also offer various courses  in Hospitality industry.