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How to Prepare for an Executive Chef Interview
Prepare for your executive chef interview and stage request by exploring our top interview tips. Unpack common questions and skills you might need.
How Much Can It Cost to Start a Restaurant?
If you’re interested in food entrepreneurship, you may be wondering: how much does it cost to start a restaurant? Here are some costs you can expect.
What Training Do You Need for a Career in the Hospitality Industry?
Hospitality training can includes education in operations, customer service, leadership, and finances.
Boulder Student Oscar Beltran Turns an Externship Into a Winning Opportunity
Boulder Culinary Arts student Oscar Beltran built skills and found confidence at Escoffier… then crushed the competition in his externship!
What Licenses and Permits Do You Need to Start a Restaurant?
Every restaurant owner must obtain the proper licenses and permits for a restaurant. Learn more about necessary documents as well as how to obtain them.
What to Expect When You Attend Cooking School
What will you find when you attend cooking school at Escoffier? A variety of in-depth programs, flexible campus options, expert Chef Instructors, and more.
How Much Does It Cost to Open a Bakery?
The cost to open a bakery may include leasing a space, permits, renovations, equipment purchases, inventory, and more. Plan your bakery with cost estimates.
Why Is It Important to Go to an Accredited Culinary School?
Discover why you should attend an accredited culinary school to avoid losing time and money. Secure a high-quality education that could help you in your career.
How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan
An overview of how to write a restaurant business plan for foodservice entrepreneurs, from concept and menu planning to kitchen design and marketing.
10 Must-Read Articles if You’re in the Culinary Industry in 2023
If you’re part of the food industry, here are the top culinary blogs you should read! Discover the best techniques and skills to elevate your career.
Food Truck Marketing: A How-To Guide
Use this food truck marketing guide to build a presence for your business, both online and in a physical space. Tips for a website, social media, and more.
How Do You Get Graded in Online Culinary School?
If instructors can’t taste dishes, how do students get graded in online culinary school? Through careful documentation, flavor wheels, photos, and more.
What Licenses & Permits Are Needed to Start a Food Truck?
Starting a food truck? This overview on licenses you may need can help you map out the permitting process and account for the costs in your business plan.
The Essential Professional Chef Tools Every Student Needs for Culinary School
One part of improving your cooking skills is learning how to use professional chef tools. Check out some of these tools and how to use them.
How Many Employees Does It Take to Run a Restaurant?
Discover the perfect team size for your restaurant's success! Learn how factors like cuisine, size, and service hours shape the ideal staffing strategy for a thriving restaurant business.
How to Buy a Food Truck
Insider tips for marketplaces and funding sources to help you buy a food truck. Consider new vs. used, buying vs. renting, and how you can pay for it.
What Is “Carbon Neutral” and Why Does It Matter in the Food Industry?
What is carbon neutral and how does it relate to food? We’ll explore these questions plus how to reduce and offset carbon emissions in the food world.
How to Choose the Best Location for Your Food Truck
How to choose a location for your food truck? Start by finding the friendliest food truck cities, and sites with parking or plenty of foot traffic.
Cake Decorating Tips: How to Choose the Right Pastry Bag
Choosing a pastry bag? Discover how these tips might impact your cake decorating techniques in the kitchen.
How Much Money Can Food Trucks Make?
Find out how much money the average food truck makes in a year. How much of that could the food truck owner keep, and how much should they save?
How Much Can a Food Truck Cost?
Find out how much it could cost to buy and equip a food truck. Plus costs for licensing and permitting, parking and prep space rentals, and more.
5 Tips All Chefs Should Follow to Avoid Burnout
Professional chefs might experience chronic stress in a busy kitchen, working long hours. Discover how to avoid burnout in the culinary world.
5 Experiences that All Great Chefs Should Have
Whether you start your own restaurant, write a cookbook, or train under elite chefs, here are experiences all chefs should have.
How Important Is It to Have Vegan Options on Your Menu?
Now more than ever, plant-based food is reaching new heights! Here’s how to introduce more vegan menu options and ways to become a skilled vegan chef.
After Homelessness, An Austin Pastry Student Finds Stability in the Kitchen
Escoffier baking & pastry graduate Merisauh Gamble shares how she went from a homeless teen to an educated baker with an externship in Ireland!
What Is a Maillard Reaction?
Discover how the Maillard reaction affects the most important aspects of your culinary masterpiece, including flavor, color, and aroma!
10 Dishes Every Professional Cook Should Know How to Make
Looking to prove your culinary skills or refine your cooking techniques? Start with these 10 dishes professional cooks should know how to make.
5 Ways Chefs Can Continue Their Culinary Education
How do professional chefs stay up-to-date with contemporary culinary techniques, trends, and more? Explore the best culinary education for chefs today!
How Professional Chefs Keep Up with Culinary Trends
Professional chefs can keep up with culinary trends by networking with others, looking to younger generations, and practicing creative cooking.
How to Make Bread from Scratch
Wondering how to make bread from scratch? Discover the basic process, including proofing, kneading, and shaping, plus explore different yeast variations.
Cajun vs. Creole: What’s the Difference?
What’s the difference between Cajun and Creole? Although they come from similar regions, the two have some unique characteristics and cuisines.
7 Reasons to Get an Online Hospitality Degree
Get an online hospitality degree without uprooting your life or quitting your job. Explore industry technology & bring your unique experience to the field.
How Plant-Based Dishes Are Shaping Restaurant Menus
Increased consumer interest in plant-based foods means more plant-based restaurants. Learn about how plant-based eating is shaping restaurant menus.
6 Benefits of Studying at a Top Culinary Institute
From job opportunities to career mentorship, discover the benefits of studying at a top culinary institute!
What Is a Holistic Diet?
What is a holistic diet? Great question, though the answer isn’t always clear. Learn about the role of diet in holistic health and wellness.
Escoffier Graduate Cassie Wallace Discovers Her Strengths in the Face of Disability
A diagnosis of an auditory processing disorder may have limited the future of this baking and pastry grad. Instead, she is excelling in the industry!
How to Become a Pitmaster
Your ultimate guide on how to become a pitmaster or BBQ expert. Follow a step-by-step process to start on this path!
How to Manage Your Time as an Online Culinary Arts Student
Time-saving strategies for busy or working online culinary school students, who want to succeed in their education.
8 Steps Restaurants Can Take to Prepare for Inflation
Tips to cut restaurant costs as everything from food to labor to utilities gets more expensive. Plus find out what’s contributing to worldwide inflation.
What Does It Take to Be a Line Cook?
Thinking about starting a career as a line cook? Find out how to become a cook, what your daily responsibilities might look like, and how to advance.
