Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management

Are you creative? Do you enjoy cooking? Do you thrive in a team environment? If so, Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management might be your recipe for success. The restaurant and hospitality industry is looking for the country’s best young people to be its future stars. Restaurant and hospitality, a $1 trillion industry, creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs each year with enormous advancement opportunities and earning potential for those who have the right skills and attitude.

The Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management program at Polaris is affiliated with ProStart. ProStart, a program administered by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), is a nationwide system of high school restaurant and foodservice courses linked with on-the-job experiences. This state-of-the-art program opens the door to many opportunities including industry certifications, college credit and college scholarships.

As a ProStart program, Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management is a two-year certification course that provides you with basic culinary essentials and foodservice management skills including customer relations, cost controls, basic accounting principles, marketing, purchasing, inventory, teambuilding skills and communications. All of these skills are developed and refined in the new class-managed restaurant, Savour, and taught by an award-winning instructor. Also, students may compete in culinary and management based events that can lead to additional scholarships and potential employment opportunities.

Career Options

Caterer Chef Cook Dietary Assistant Host/Hostess Institutional Kitchen Employee Server Waiter/Waitress

High School Credit Junior Year

Chef Training: 3.0 Technology: .5

High School Credit Senior Year

Chef Training: 3.0

Potential College Credit

*See your Polaris counselor for more information on college credit opportunities for this program.

Certifications

ServSafe Food Handler ServSafe Food Manager OSHA 10-Hour ProStart Certificate of Achievement

“Culinary Arts allows me to practice doing something I am passionate about and also prepares me to get a good job in the future.”

Caroline Hickle-Zambo, Strongsville High School