{"id":68033,"date":"2017-10-10T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=68033"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:43:31","slug":"food-service-apprenticeships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/10\/food-service-apprenticeships\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u02bbolani <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> offers second round of food service apprenticeships"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/kapiolani-foodservice-apprenticeship.jpg\" alt=\"Student rolling out pasta in the kitchen\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/kapiolani-foodservice-apprenticeship.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/kapiolani-foodservice-apprenticeship-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> is gearing up for round two of its successful <a href=\"https:\/\/continuinged.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/hawaii-cook-apprenticeship-program\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Cook Foodservice Apprenticeship Training program<\/a>, which will begin\u00a0November 13.<\/p>\n<p>Employees of food service establishments can be referred by their employer to receive 210 hours of quality culinary instruction, at no cost to the employer. The employer will also receive a $500 bonus when the apprentice successfully completes all the courses of the program.<\/p>\n<p>The college will be hosting two orientation sessions during the first week of November. Employers can contact <strong>Marcus Fikse<\/strong>, the program coordinator, at <a href=\"mailto:marcusjt@hawaii.edu\">marcusjt@hawaii.edu<\/a> or (808) 734-9477 to send their employees to enroll and attend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 3, 11 a.m.&#8211;1 p.m. in the Tamarind room in the Ohelo Building<\/li>\n<li>November 6, 12&#8211;2 p.m. in the Tamarind room in the Ohelo Building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;We received a very enthusiastic response from the food industry during our first intake. With over one hundred apprentices enrolled, it has been a huge success,&rdquo; said Fikse<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know that it takes perseverance and effort to attend and successfully complete the hands-on culinary skills lab training and online courses,&rdquo; said Chef Instructor <strong>Grant Sato<\/strong>. &ldquo;For those who continue on to completion, they will have attained the basic professional training in principles and processes of cookery that allow them to take their craft to another level. They are getting the equivalent of $1,638 of instruction (13 credits at $126 a credit for local tuition at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>) for free. What an unbelievable opportunity for anyone in the culinary industry who never had the opportunity to attend a college level culinary class or couldn\u2019t afford to!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The program is funded by a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Apprenticeship <abbr>USA<\/abbr> State Expansion Grant, issued to the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Workforce Development Division office.<\/p>\n<h2>About the training<\/h2>\n<p>The apprentice will attend 1 six-hour in-person, hands-on culinary instruction lab class each week at the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> campus on the basics of cooking on either a Monday, Friday or Sunday. In addition, the apprentice will be enrolled in a series of 4 distance education (on-line) lecture courses each lasting 5 weeks. Topics will include introduction to the food service industry, sanitation, menu planning and culinary nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/continuinged.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/hawaii-cook-apprenticeship-program\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Cook Foodservice Apprenticeship Training website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Louise Yamamoto<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of food service establishments can be referred by their employer to receive 210 hours of quality culinary instruction, at no cost to the employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1114,184,63],"class_list":["post-68033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-apprenticeship","tag-culinary","tag-kapiolani-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68033"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112579,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68033\/revisions\/112579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}