Fresh Food = Fresh Start
Our Trainees Become Sought After Food Services Employees.
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 real restaurant.
- Internship opportunities that allow students to reinforce the skills being taught in the classroom; gaining experience in restaurant operations to catering.
- Career placement support to provide career guidance for all graduates.
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.
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 students 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.
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Critical to its organizational plan, AspenPointe Cafe is a rising member of Catalyst Kitchens; a nationwide network of non-profits 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.