Kitchen of Champions Class

Kitchen of Champions Culinary Training

Kitchen of ChampionsGuest Chef Dinners - 2010 Series

Coming Up – Chef Brian Hill, Taste of Joy, May 5, 2010

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Our popular Guest Chef dinner series supports the Kitchen of Champions Culinary Training program. On May 5, 2010, Chef Brian Hill of Taste of Joy prepares a sumptuous four-course meal with Chef Michael Stamm’s culinary students. The menu: Barbeque and Contemporary Southern comfort food.

Only 120 seats available. Tickets priced at 1 for $71, 2 for $125, table of 8 for $475.

The SVdP Kitchen of Champions Culinary Program is a hands-on employment training program. The program helps prepare people for fair-wage positions in the food and hospitality industry.

The Kitchen of Champions program provides classroom and hands-on training, workforce readiness basics, case management and job placement. Students in the training program get real-world practice, working under a master chef and helping prepare the meals served at the SVdP Free Dining Room.

SVdP is building partnerships with employers such as Levy Restaurants, Revolution Foods, Bellanico Restaurant and Picán Restaurant  to place qualified candidates after graduation from culinary training.

In its first full year of operation, the Kitchen of Champions graduated 70 individuals. Nearly two-thirds of those graduates are working today.

Mobile Food Trailer

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Sponsor a Student

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Support our Restaurant Partners

Kitchen of Champions is grateful for the support of food industry professionals who hire our graduates or volunteer for Guest Chef Night. When you're...

Skills Upon Graduation

Demonstrated Employability Assets Each Kitchen of Champions graduate has completed our intensive 12 week training program. Each in...

Program Overview

The Kitchen of Champions offers a highly structured environment in which students learn and practice professional work skills and attitudes that will...