All students who pass the training phase of the program move into 12-week, 360 hour paid internships. Each student will have three options on how they choose to complete their internship based on the classroom training.
- Culinary Arts Internship: Each student will spend the full 360 hours at a site utilizing all applicable culinary skills.
- Culinary/Pastry and Baking Internship: Each student will spend 300 hours at site utilizing all applicable culinary skills and the other 60 hours will be spent in the baking and pastry division of their site.
- Pastry and Baking Internship: Each student will spend the full 360 hours at a site utilizing all applicable baking and pastry skills
Internships take place in a corporate dining room, catering company, hotel restaurant or other food service establishment. A $100 biweekly stipend is included. During this transitional period from training to work, students receive 30 hours a week of practical experience in a fast-paced professional environment under the guidance of a supervising chef. Chefs complete weekly written evaluations of CATP students.
After successfully completing this part of their training, students are either hired by their internship sites or receive detailed letters of reference from their supervising chefs. During the course of the internship training program, students also attend a weekly one-hour mandatory internship support group.
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