Baking is the production of breads, cakes, pastries, and other baked goods. Skilled baking requires a knowledge of production processes, health and sanitation regulations, applied chemistry and mathematics.

• Key Traits: Attention to detail, artistic abilities, customer service skills
• Education Required: Certificate, diploma or associate degree (entry-level positions).
• Where Baking Is Needed: Pastry shops, hotels and restaurants, grocery stores, institutions (schools, hospitals, etc.), bakery manufacturers.

Front-of-house service duties include maintaining a pleasant and safe dining environment for customers, and working with wait staff and kitchen staff to ensure operations run smoothly.

• Key Traits:Interpersonal communication, customer service skills, coolness under pressure.
• Education Required: Certificate/diploma or associate degree.
• Where Front-of-House Services Are Needed: Restaurants, hotels, cruise ships, casinos, country clubs.

Catering services are required in facilities such as hotels and convention centers. Catering services functions range from table service to the coordination of schedules, supplies, and staff.

• Key Traits: Customer service skills, organizational skills, attention to detail.
• Education Required: Certificate, diploma or associate degree.
• Where Catering Management Is Needed: Convention centers, hotels, wedding venues (such as country clubs), corporate offices.

Projected National Job Growth Through 2018**:
18,000 new jobs, or 4%.ⁱ

Part food preparation, part sculpture, food styling involves preparing food products to be photographed or filmed for marketing purposes. Food products created must be able to withstand several hours of shooting under hot lights.

• Key Traits: Applied chemistry, artistic skills, attention to detail.,/LI.
• Education required: Certificate or associate degree.
• Where Food Styling Is Needed: Newspapers and magazines, marketing departments, food manufacturers, advertising agencies.

Whether they are learning for pleasure or as part of a career training course, students benefit from experienced guidance and professional cooking instruction.

• Key Traits: Communication and teaching skills, professional cooking experience, organization and planning skills.
• Education Required: Bachelor degree plus significant workplace experience.
• Where Chef Instruction Is Needed: Culinary schools and other schools and colleges, some restaurants, specialty food outlets, cooking equipment stores.

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