Your Culinary Career Starts Here!
Taste Project’s Culinary Job Training Programs are designed with YOU in mind. We provide the critical training you need to get a living wage, highly-skilled position within the foodservice industry segment that is expanding. We focus on hands-on work experience in real-world environments located right here in your community; which is why our apprentices are in-demand.
Our unique program concludes with our Showcase Dinner; a final exam where apprentices plan, prepare, and present their menu to local employers looking to hire YOU! Employers include Dickies Arena, Fixture Kitchen and Social Lounge, Marriott Downtown, Sage Dining Services, Stonehouse Fine Dining, Texas Health Resources, the Worthington Hotel (Toro Toro Latin Steakhouse), and many others. Most of our Apprentices receive multiple job offers on-the-spot.
In addition, many of our Apprentices have gone on to our paid and tuition-free two-year certified Sous Chef apprenticeship program where they can further develop their culinary and leadership skills in preparation for advanced careers in foodservice.
Get started now in a program based right here in your community!
- Self-Paced CFC Apprenticeship Track
- Accelerated CFC Apprenticeship Track (Fort Worx)
- Sous Chef Apprenticeship Track
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Our Self-Paced Certified Fundamental Cook (CFC) Apprenticeship track is designed for those ready to start a career in the culinary industry. It combines hands-on work experience on-site at Taste Community Restaurant, with one-on-one coaching and faith-based discipleship.
Apprentices choose their schedule and spend approximately 400 hours at Taste Community Restaurant preparing breakfast, lunch, and brunch for our guests each day, and 90 hours of American Culinary Federation Certified instruction.
- Choose your schedule with flexible work days.
- American Culinary Federation Certified Program.
- 500 hours instruction and work experience.
- Job placement support.
- No previous foodservice or work experience required.
- Applications processed in less than 30 days.
Our Accelerated Certified Fundamental Cook (CFC) Apprenticeship track, also known as Fort Worx, is a collaboration between Taste Project and Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County. It combines hands-on work experience on-site at Taste Community Restaurant with one-on-one coaching and faith-based discipleship.
Apprentices spend 16 weeks learning the fundamentals of food preparation hands-on in a working full-service restaurant at Taste Community Restaurant.
- Accelerated 16-week work schedule.
- American Culinary Federation Certified Program.
- Up to 500 hours paid work experience.*
- Job placement support.
- No previous foodservice or work experience required.
- 60-90 days application processing with additional requirements outlined by Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County.
*Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County eligibility required. All federal, state, and local laws apply. Void where prohibited.
Our 2-year Certified Sous Chef Apprenticeship track is designed for CFC graduates with demonstrated leadership capabilities. It combines hands-on work experience on-site at Taste Community Restaurant with leadership practice and development.
Apprentices spend 40 hours per week at Taste Community Restaurant leading CFC Apprentices and volunteers in the preparation of breakfast, lunch, and brunch for our guests each day. In addition, our Apprentices spend 8 hours each week learning through the Culinary School of Fort Worth.
- 2-year American Culinary Federation Certified Program.
- 4,000 hours paid work experience.
- Department of Labor (DOL) apprenticeship designation.
- Guaranteed job placement.
- Previous graduation from one of our programs as an ACF Certified Fundamental Cook is required.
Our Program Sponsors:
We could not change the lives of the people we serve without the support from our sponsors. To learn more about program sponsorship, contact us!