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We train your staff on the skills and systems it takes to cook confidently from scratch, more and more everyday!
See which of our services will best help you reach your vision!
These trainings are scheduled during any regular live production day, and are completely customized to work with your equipment, in your teams everyday work environment, to meet your most urgent training needs, all during live production!
Your team will learn how to:
✅ Prepare a fully customized, scratch-cooked, whole foods–based menu that meets child nutrition guidelines—giving your staff the skills and confidence to recreate it independently in the future.
✅ Design menus that feature local ingredients, adding a Farm to School element that supports your community and gives you something meaningful to promote to students, parents, and staff.
✅ Process, prepare, and season whole foods so they not only meet nutritional standards but also look and taste great to kids—helping increase participation and reduce waste.
✅ Incorporate more fresh, whole ingredients into your everyday menus with practical, kid-approved ideas that make healthy food appealing and accessible.
When: Great thing about “Live-Setting” classes is they are the right choice to train on any regular school day. No need to wait for “PD” days, non-student days or half days for training.
Why choose “Live-Setting”:
You want the freedom to schedule trainings anytime you want!
you don't want to wait for half or off-days to train your people.
You want your team to learn foundational cooking skills that they will use everyday.
You want the satisfaction of seeing your team produce a beautiful, scratch cooked menu from start to finish then serve it to real students and get their instant feedback!
You want to continue collecting your valuable meal reimbursements while training.
Time Commitment: We will have a couple advanced planning meetings plus the duration of an entire workday on the day of the “Live-Setting” event. And we are with your team through the whole thing from start to finish!
Location: The school kitchen of choice. These training are intended to be inserted into an established kitchen team’s regular, everyday work environment.
More Details: Here are specific examples of this style of class:
Check out this Overview and Recap of an actual “Live-Setting” training
All “lab-Setting” classes (any training that isn’t during live meal services) are hands-on, whole foods focused and customized to meet your team’s most urgent training needs. Emphasis is on foundational kitchen skills all cooks need, but is geared to the unique school kitchen environment.
Your team will learn:
✅ How to prepare and season vegetables so they taste great to kids.
✅ New recipes utilizing more whole, fresh foods that your kids will actually eat!
✅How to make foods taste like those from your favorite restaurant.
✅ How to process fruits and vegetables with a knife and other pieces of equipment for maximum efficiency.
✅ How to season foods to achieve the “world flavors” kids love.
✅ To understand produce seasonality and the best practices to for purchasing, receiving and storage of fresh produce.
✅ To demystify sodium’s critical role in cooking and how to use it wisely in a school food environment to meet regulations and make foods taste great!
✅ How to maximize sodium’s benefit by incorporating other flavor builders such as acid, sweet, bitter and umami.
When: “Lab-Setting” classes are your best choice when planning your staff trainings for early release, half-days, or non-school days.
Why: You’d like a controlled environment training, focusing on specific skills that all staff member can participate in and benefit from.
Duration: 3-6 hours generally
Location: Depending on the content, these trainings can be performed in a kitchen or a non-kitchen location such as a meeting room.
More Details: Here are three specific examples of this style of class:
The Thrill of a New Skill
Five Salsas From One Master Recipe
Sharpen your Knife Skills
Team-Builder Events pull the whole crew together for a fun and educational way to build the team!
Its an awesome way to start off the year, or a great way to get in the team spirit anytime of year.
We will explore a bit of taste physiology, talk about how to make foods taste great. we will touch on tasty topics such as umami and kokumi, and learn some real-world ways to replicate your favorite “World-Flavors” in your own kitchens, any time you want.
Then, after the lecture, it’s time for a fun team-based “Mystery Basket” cooking experience!
Your team will learn:
✅ How to prepare and season vegetables so they taste great to kids.
New recipes utilizing more whole, fresh foods that your kids will actually eat!
✅ How to make foods taste like those from your favorite restaurant.
✅ How to process fruits and vegetables with a knife and other pieces of equipment for maximum efficiency.
✅ How to season foods to achieve the “world flavors” kids love.
✅ To understand produce seasonality and the best practices to for purchasing, receiving and storage of fresh produce.
✅ To demystify sodium’s critical role in cooking and how to use it wisely in a school food environment to meet regulations and make foods taste great!
✅ How to maximize sodium’s benefit by incorporating other flavor builders such as acid, sweet, bitter and umami.
When: “Lab-Setting” classes are your best choice when planning your staff trainings for early release, half-days, or non-school days.
Why: You’d like a controlled environment training, focusing on specific skills that all staff member can participate in and benefit from.
Duration: 2-6 hours generally
Location: Depending on the content, these trainings can be performed in a kitchen or a non-kitchen location such as a meeting room.
More Details: Here are three specific examples of this style of class:
The Thrill of a New Skill
Five Salsas From One Master Recipe
Sharpen your Knife Skills
