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An Alternative to Restaurant Management Degrees

If you've been researching restaurant management degrees and just haven't found what you're looking for, The French Culinary Institute invite you to explore our Opening and Running a Restaurant course. This course offers a candid and comprehensive perspective for anyone looking to open or manage a restaurant, bakery, café and other type of culinary business. Students will gain real-world insights and strategies from NYC's most successful restaurateurs and industry experts, in addition to professors from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. All of this real-world experience that restaurant management degrees from typical schools don't offer. Apply today to start on your path towards owning a successful culinary business.

The culinary world is fast-paced and exciting, but full of financial pitfalls and mistakes that are easily made. Many business owners look to schools offering restaurant management degrees to help them avoid a disaster. The experts at the FCI are here to provide you with in-depth, real world training without the time commitment of traditional restaurant management degrees. They've made the mistakes that most culinary business owners run into and know the best strategies for avoiding them. Everything from your original concept, to opening day and more will be presented in a fun, hands-on environment. Opening and Running a Restaurant covers these important topics:

  • Focusing your concept, whether it's a traditional restaurant, retail, or an innovative mix
  • Legal issues: raising capital, personnel, real estate, and more
  • Location considerations
  • Key factors in design
  • Facility maintenance
  • Financial profiles of restaurant success
  • Menu creation and yield design
  • Kitchen design and equipment
  • Marketing your restaurant
  • Leadership skills in training your staff

The FCI focuses on real-world scenarios and experience, and in this same tradition the theory taught here is richly underscored by real-life case studies. The knowledge you gain will be put to work right away in break-out session exercises, where feedback from the industry's best enhances your skills. Apply for Opening and Running a Restaurant today, and end your search for restaurant management degrees.









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