Wildcat Café is a project-based course within the Culinary Arts Pathway that provides students with authentic work experience through a school-based culinary enterprise. Students apply culinary and business skills while operating a functioning café in a professional, real-world environment.
Throughout the course, students will focus on developing transferable employability skills such as teamwork, communication, time management, professionalism, and problem-solving. Instruction also emphasizes advanced pastry and baking skills, use of industry-standard kitchen equipment, and consistent practice of safe food handling and sanitation procedures.
Students will gain hands-on experience in food preparation, production planning, customer service, and daily operations, preparing them for employment or further education in culinary arts and hospitality fields.
Wildcat Café offers students a meaningful opportunity to build career-ready skills while contributing to a student-run business within the school community.
Prerequisites for this course include successful completion of ProStart II or International Foods.