Are you creative? Do you enjoy cooking? Do you thrive in a team environment? If so, Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management might be your recipe for success.

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Are you creative? Do you enjoy cooking? Do you thrive in a team environment? If so, Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management might be your recipe for success. The restaurant and hospitality industry is looking for the country’s best young people to be its future stars. Restaurant and foodservice, a $1 trillion industry, creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs each year with enormous advancement opportunity and earning potential for those who have the right skills and attitude.

The Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management program at Polaris Career Center is affiliated with ProStart. ProStart, a program administered by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), is a nationwide system of high school restaurant and foodservice courses linked with on-the-job experiences. This state-of-the-art program opens the door to many opportunities including industry certifications, college credit and college scholarships.

As a ProStart program, Culinary Arts & Restaurant Management is a two-year certification course that provides you with basic culinary essentials and foodservice management skills including customer relations, cost controls, basic accounting principles, marketing, purchasing, inventory, teambuilding skills and communications. All of these skills are developed and refined in the new class-managed restaurant Savour, and taught by an award winning instructor.  Also, ProStart gives you the opportunity to compete in culinary and management based events that can lead to additional scholarships and potential employment opportunities.

Culinary Academy 2024-2025 Advisory Members

• Flavio Bortolotto, Sandridge Crafted Foods

• Chris Bruder, The Square 22

• Matt Dugan, Altosham Cleveland

• Michele Gaw, Cuyahoga Community College 

• Geoff Gus, Northern Haserot Food Service

• David Ina, Zatoon Lebanese Kitchen

• Meghan Lamb, MOLA Real Estate Employment

• Ian McCaffrey, Hilton

• Katherine Mederos, East Wind Hospitality, LLC.