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Career Opportunities

The career opportunities for foodservice and culinary employment are bountiful. The Department of Culinary Arts Management prepares graduates for entering the diverse hospitality and foodservice industry, from fine dining, casual dining, banquet, catering, institutional foodservice establishments, and corporate hotels, to chain bakeries. Graduates with progressive experience and appropriate culinary training are expected to take on all the managerial and administrative responsibilities of operating daily foodservice establishments, including hotel and restaurant kitchens, catering, and banquet operations for the positions such as chef, sous chef, kitchen manager, research and development chef, food production supervisor, purchasing buyer, restaurant entrepreneur (chef-owner) food account analyst, culinary consultant, culinary educator, and in-flight catering kitchen manager. With all these career paths available, the career opportunities in culinary fields are endless.