Culinary Training
Fresh Food = Fresh Start
Our Trainees Become Sought After Food Services Employees.
The mission of our Food Services Training program is to instruct students who are committed to a career in culinary arts, and to help them achieve their potential through small class sizes and individualized instruction from a professional staff. Students will acquire the foundational knowledge and skills of cooking and/or baking, sensory awareness and teamwork needed to work with competence and professionalism in a commercial kitchen or in a related culinary field.
The AspenPointe Cafe Advantage
- Our commercial kitchen serves as classroom laboratory, creating an efficient and enjoyable atmosphere in which to work, learn and dine.
- A talented staff that provides individual attention and instruction in a small setting.
- Real life internship opportunities that allow students to reinforce the skills being taught in the classroom, while gaining experience in other areas ranging from catering to producing and serving food in large quantities for food related events around the city.
- Career placement support to provide career guidance for all graduates.
Program Overview
AspenPointe offers a highly structured environment in which students learn and practice professional work skills and attitudes that will serve them for a lifetime. We balance compassion and support with expectations for professional behavior that meet the demands of the workplace. We work with each student individually, enabling them to create a new life for themselves and their families.
There are three parts to our program:
Food Services Training is taught through hands-on, real-world experience in the cafe's kitchen. Students work and train alongside our own chefs learning job skills from dishwasher to cook. We train competitive skills so our graduates can compete and excel in the food service industry. Find out how to get started! -click on
Job Placement means finding the right jobs for our students and continuing to work with them after they've graduated to ensure that they retain their jobs in all sectors of the food service industry. Some of our sudents are placed in Academy School District 11 kitchens or in restaurants.
Life Skills Training teaches students how to make healthy food choices for themselves with alternatives to unhealthy fast food. Training focuses on food preparation for the home.
Call (719) 339-5913 to find out more or get started
Critical to its organizational plan, AspenPointe Cafe is a rising member of Catalyst Kitchens, a Seattle-based non-profit working to build and sustain communities rooted in social enterprise and food service-based training. AspenPointe Cafe remains an independent agency implementing our own innovative programs but benefits from Catalyst Kitchens' ongoing oversight and accreditation, shared resources and benefits including sponsorships and services.
Insurance(s) Accepted:
Third party
Hours
M-F 8-5pm by appointment.