I love cooking and at the moment its my hobby, but I want cooking to be more of a career, but do not have any food qualifications? How do I go about obtaining food qualifications and what SMALL business could I start that involves cooking? Thanks in advance.
2006-11-08 22:57:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
If you want to get real experience you could think about working a season as a chalet host/chef. Most companies will send you on a taylor made course to up your skills, you'll learn loads of new recipies, plus meet loads of cool people.
2006-11-08 23:08:55 · answer #1 · answered by Gella 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
U could open ure self a restaurant... or even a little cafe, or if u want u could do some catering from home... all u need is 2 do some research in 2 ure ara, have a look round at how many restaurants and cafes there are and see what they offer, if they offer something u want 2 offer then the oppurtunity is gone but if your idea is different then go 4 it... i mean u can get a lot of help from the goverment in grants and there are ofganisations that help you start a business.
2006-11-08 23:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by IBRAHIM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i think it's always good to start catering for friends parties and barbeques etc. I love to cook too and as yet I haven't done any formal training but I do cater for parties and barbeques during the summer, which I love. You can start out just charging for the raw materials and then when you begin to build a reputation you can begin introducing a basic charge for your services. This all began with a friend (who's a chef) asking me to help her prepare for a barbeque she was catering and then asking me to stay on and waitress. Don't be afraid to offer your services for very little at the start.... word of mouth is what will get your business going! And if you love food, what you produce is guaranteed to get good publicity!! Good luck with it.... Enjoy!!!
2006-11-08 23:11:15 · answer #3 · answered by Sinead G 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Catering from home.
Prepare all the food in your house and do the final cooking in the hosts house.
Send a leaflet to all expensive houses or do a street walk around the posh housing estates.
Of course it depends where you live. This would work fine in a city but not many rural areas would pay for this, except down south.
2006-11-08 23:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Be a caterer! You could actually start from home! get a part time job with a catering company! I have to be honest! There are great rewards in cooking, I'm not talking about in a restraunt. I'm talking about being a caterer.~good luck
2006-11-08 23:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by patrick s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are food schools.
In Malta, there is the ITS. it accepts forign students too.
if you look online for cooking schools, you will be able to find a lot of them.
if you want to join in the ITS, you have to be over 17 and i think you need to have some exams such as O levels or GCSEs....
log on www.its.edu.mt
2006-11-08 23:00:39 · answer #6 · answered by nadezdha87 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could always get one of those Butty vans and sell sarnies to the hard working people? They always do well - gourmet bacon sarnies - I'd buy em from yer!! ;o)
Chippy! Yum!
2006-11-12 11:00:12 · answer #7 · answered by johnfromdon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋