Introduction to the Hospitality Industry Foundation Learning

You should have an interest in Hospitality and ideally 3 GCSEs at grade 2 or above.

The course is an introduction to the hospitality and catering industry for students who would like to prepare to enter the hospitality industry and may need a little extra help with confidence building and developing literacy and numeracy. You will gain experience in:

• Customer Service in the Hospitality Industry
• Introduction to the Hospitality Industry
• Food Service
• Basic Food Preparation and Cooking
• Food Safety
• Serving Food and Drink

There will be opportunities to work within our industrial kitchen and our Ashfields Restaurant to develop sector specific skills.

This programme includes GCSE English Language and Maths.

Additional costs
All courses within Hospitality have uniform requirements for the kitchen and front of house areas. All courses and the different pathways within these have different requirements and so full details of uniform and kit list will be provided at enrolment. For further information please ask our tutors at our open events and guidance discussions.

Attendance is full-time. Your studies will be across three to four full days per week in College. These will be mainly workshop (kitchen or restaurant) based but you will also experience formal classroom learning.

All of your sessions will be college based with 20% in the classroom and 80% undertaking simulated practical activities. Part of your development will involve working within our commercial restaurant and interacting with both internal and external customers.

Our methods of delivery will include student focused learning and formal teaching sessions, accompanied by workshops, tutorials, some independent studies, problem solving and work-based learning.

You will be continuously assessed during the course through projects and skills checks, practical assessments and assignment work.

This is a full-time course. It is not possible to combine this course with other Vocational, T Level, Apprenticeship or A Level programmes.

You can progress to the Level 2 course in Hospitality, that includes food and beverage service and professional cookery, depending on progress throughout your programme. Alternatively, you may wish to take up a job opportunity in the hospitality and catering industry. Potential job occupations include Hotel Porter, Hotel Receptionist, Hotel Room Attendant, Food Processing Operative and Fast Food Service Assistant.