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Diploma of Hospitality, from $225.00
11:00AM - 09 Aug 10
Hospitality Training Australia is taking enrolments for the Diploma of Hospitality SIT50307 commencing:
- 6th September (enrolment fee of $225.00 covers all training, assessment, certification, books & uniform. Instalment payment plans available.)
- 2010 Course Flyer (PDF 488Kb)
The Diploma of Hospitality is a 2 year nationally accredited diploma specialising in Food & Beverage or Commercial Cookery:
Food & Beverage – Specialisation – 1st Year
This specialisation focuses on coffee making, wine appreciation, waiter, bar operations, cocktails, food appreciation, service cycle and maitre‘d training. Students spend 2 days training at 250 Collins Street, Melbourne which includes 1 service period within Schön Training Cafe, Bar & Restaurant.
Commercial Cookery – Specialisation – 1st Year
This specialisation focuses on cooking that takes students through the basics of cookery and then up to cooking a la carte, functions and set menu. Units covered in first year include: preparing appetisers, salads, stocks, sauces and soups; preparing vegetables, fruit, eggs and farinaceous dishes; selecting, preparing and cooking poultry, seafood and meat; hot and cold desserts, pastries, cakes and yeast goods and planning and preparing food for buffets. Students spend 1 day in off-the-job classes, 1 day doing kitchen theory and 1 day at our state of the art Fagor kitchen averaging attendance of 20 hours per week.
Diploma of Hospitality – 2nd Year
In year 2 both the food & beverage and commercial cookery students undertake management specific training to gain practical skills in the management of a hospitality venue including: recruitment; rostering; training; managing staff performance; ordering; managing finances; occupational health and safety; marketing and food safety.
Course Cost
The cost of the course is $225.00.
The Victoria Government through the Skills For Victoria program has fully funded this course, but hurry places are limited.
Course Overview
This two year diploma provides hands on training designed to assist our students gain meaningful employment in either cookery or front of house operations roles including:
- Cook in a cafe, restaurant, pub; function centre or hotel;
- Coffee machine operator (barista);
- Barperson, including cocktails, in a pub, bar, restaurant or function venue;
- Waitperson in a café, restaurant or function venue;
- Food & beverage, functions or banquet attendant of a 3 to 5 star hotel.
This course also assists students to develop supervisory and leadership skills necessary for roles such as shift supervisor, duty manager and maître d’. Venues for these roles may include: hospitals; bottle shops; canteens; bars; hotels; motels; sporting arenas and many more.
Hospitality Training Australia is located in the heart of the city across two levels at 250 Collins Street, Melbourne and has a licensed cafe, bar, restaurant and commercial training kitchen located next door to the Queen Victoria Market.
Course Guide
To download a course guide and enrolment pack please click on the links below:
- Diploma of Hospitality Course Guide (PDF 7,607Kb)
- Diploma of Hospitality Enrolment Pack (PDF 400Kb)
More Information
For more information about this program please contact Admissions Coordinator on:
- Telephone Melissa D’Ozario on 1300 659 557
- Email us admissions@hosptrain.edu.au
- Head Office at Level 3, 250 Collins Street Melbourne
- Training Centre at Level 4, 250 Collins Street Melbourne
- Fagor Training Kitchen, Cathay Lane, North melbourne (next door to the Queen Victorian Market)
- Schön Restaurant, 112 Peel Street, North Melbourne (next door to the Queen Victorian Market)
