If you like a busy floor and people who talk back, food and drink work suits you. Kitchen and menu basics, catering, bar service, mixing drinks and wine, taught from the ground up. A good place to start.
Service order, menu knowledge and how a bar is set up. Turning up with those already in your head is what gets you past a trial shift.
Kitchen and food management sit next to bar and beverage service, so you understand the venue rather than one station in it.
Food and drink service exists in every town and most countries. It is a skill you can pick up and take with you.
Hospitality hires all year and hires often, which makes it one of the easier fields to get a first start in. The work is shifts, service and reading a room while carrying three things. People who stay tend to move up quickly, because venues promote from the floor.
Table service across a restaurant floor.
Pouring, mixing and keeping the bar stocked.
Functions, weddings and large sittings.
Bookings, greeting and seating the room.
Organising food service for an event.
Front of house in a fast venue.
Keeping the kitchen moving and clean.
Learning a venue from the ground up.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Serving alcohol in Australia also requires a separate Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate, issued state by state.
Three things that lift this above learning on the job alone.
A hospitality body stands behind the course, alongside the college's CPD Standards Office accreditation.
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, mixing and service procedures, plus wine appreciation as its own topic.
Menu planning, catering services and personnel management are included, which is where the step up to supervision starts.
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An advisor runs through the ten topics.
Weekly plan, or pay upfront in full.
Nutrition, food management and menus.
Drinks, service procedures and wine.
No. It starts with the basics of food, service and the bar, so a first job is a fine place to be starting from.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan. An advisor confirms current pricing.
About 100 hours of content, with six months of access to work through it.
No. Responsible Service of Alcohol is a separate certificate issued state by state, and you get it through an approved provider in your state. This course covers the drinks knowledge and service side around it.
Yes. The course is fully online and open around the clock, which is why people study it between shifts.
It gives you the parts venues promote on: menu planning, catering management and personnel management. Most venues still want to see you handle a floor first, so pair it with time on shift.
It carries a Certificate of Achievement and is endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality, with the college holding Official CPD Standards Office Accreditation and ICOES accreditation. That is accreditation for professional development. The college is not an RTO and the course is not nationally recognised. Those are different things, and hospitality is a field where venues hire on attitude and knowledge on the floor.
Yes. A 10-day money back guarantee runs from enrolment.
You enrol in this course through The Career Academy, an online college in Australia that delivers the course itself.
The college is registered with the International Approval and Registration Centre and is an ICOES accredited centre. It has run for over 15 years and helps more than 25,000 students a year.
Picture a Friday night service where the floor is full, the bar is three deep, and you are calm in the middle of it.