Dec 21, 2024  
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog

CA 260 - A La Carte I


Credits: 12
LAB hours per week: 24
Students gain real industry experience honing their skills in a fully functioning restaurant. They will implement a “Field to Fork” food service concept to develop basic skills and apply a la carte cooking techniques for the execution of grab-n-go, curbside pick-up, and meal kits food orders.
Course Outcomes:
 

  • Research a “Field to Fork” food service concept.
  • Perform menu engineering with consideration of seasonality, price point, and the demographic of guests.
  • Develop recipes, communicate ingredient needs, and prepare production stations to support the menu of a functioning food service operation.
  • Utilize local, sustainable ingredients efficiently within a food cost management system.
  • Design accurate and appealing packaging and labelling for grab-n-go, curbside pick-up, and meal kit orders.
  • Create a database for recipe development.
  • Apply food safety and sanitation procedures and policies in compliance with the local health department.
  • Demonstrate teamwork, time-management, and decision-making skills required in a production environment.
Course Topics:
 

  1. Leadership and management in a production environment
  2. Product knowledge
  3. Ordering and receiving product
  4. Mise-en-place organization
  5. Packing food “to go”
  6. Customer service
  7. Kitchen flow for service
  8. Order/Fire system
  9. Inventory control
  10. Multiple station execution
Course Attribute(s): None