Culinary Academy Workplace Training 2025

SANITATION: Students are responsible for cleaning all dishes and tools and will lose their points for the day if dishes are not done. True or False?

• True. I will clean the dishes I use and leave the kitchen clean. I understand my responsibility as a Culinary Academy student.

• False...wait, I thought we had people to take care of that for us?

If you are assigned to dishwashing, properly closing down the sink means you must:

• Wash all the dishes

• Wash all the dishes, drain the sinks of dirty water, and ensure no food scraps are left at the bottom of sinks

Our cooking labs are about 50 minutes long. This means...

• We will need to work quickly as a team to get the recipe done.

• We will need to clean as we go to finish on time.

• We will only have time to sample the dishes we make before we clean up-- not sit down and eat a full meal.

• All of statements listed are true.

When you come into the cooking lab, it is important to be ready to start right away due to limited time. Being ready to start means:

• You wash your hands right when you walk in.

• You walk into the Culinary building with your hair restrained (BEFORE coming inside)

• You have your cell phone put away when you walk in and place your backpack in storage right away

• You meet your teacher in the designated lab area right after washing your hands.

• Doing all of these things!!

Kitchen attire...UNIFORM: Being in uniform in culinary lab is mandatory, including:

• closed toed shoes

• aprons

• no dangling jewelry or excessive jewelry

• hair restrained/ tied back

• all of the above...you need all of these things!

What should you do if you wear fake nails or polish and you have a kitchen lab?

• Make sure your nails are looking really nice so you can impress your classmates.

• Make sure to pick a nail color that matches the kitchen.

• You can only wear your fake nails if they are in Valley colors. Falcon Fever, catch it!

• Make sure you are wearing clean gloves over your nails to avoid food contamination. Change your gloves anytime you touch your hair, face, cell phone or if you leave the building to use the restroom. Change gloves if they get dirty or when you change tasks. When in doubt, wash your hands and use new gloves.

Backpacks and cell phones are not allowed in the kitchen. True or False?

• True. Backpacks should not be in the kitchen area (and you should place them in the designated bag drop area.) Cell Phones should be in backpacks

• False. How am I supposed to check my social media if my phone is in my bag?

Headphones in the kitchen are not allowed. As kitchen professionals, it is important we are able to hear one another, communicate, and work safely. True or False?

• True. I need to hear if someone is trying to warn me about a hot pot or a sharp knife!

• False. I want to wear my headphones at all times even if it is VERY dangerous.

PROFESSIONALISM: Having a positive, professional attitude and working well with others in your lab is a part of your lab grade.

• True, working with other people is a career ready skill.

• False, I do not think I will need to work with others in my career and it is not an important part of the class.

WORKPLACE SAFETY: You notice a big spill on the floor of the kitchen. You...

• walk past it and pretend not to notice.

• act surprised when someone falls down and hurts themselves.

• clean up the spill immediately and tell those around you to be careful of the wet floor

• tell Chef that someone spilled something