College Catalog
Culinary Arts - Food Truck Operations (C55150F)
This certificate is designed to offer students an overview of food truck operations. Students will earn a certificate that will provide a ServSafe Manager Certification, basic culinary skills, an understanding of menu design, cost controls, and labor management, as it pertains to food truck operations.
Students will be provided with theoretical knowledge/practical applications that provide critical competencies to meet industry demands, including environmental stewardship, operational efficiencies and professionalism. Courses include sanitation/safety, culinary fundamentals/production skills, entrepreneurship, food truck production, and food truck management.
Graduates should be prepared to operate, and one day own, a food truck business.
Certificate Program
| Course Hours Per Week | Semester Hours | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Semester (Fall) | Class | Lab | Credit | |
| CUL-110 | Sanitation & Safety | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| CUL-110A | Sanitation & Safety Lab | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| CUL-140 | Culinary Skills I | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| Credit Hours | 4 | 8 | 8 | |
| Second Semester (Spring) | Class | Lab | Credit | |
| BUS-139 | Entrepreneurship I | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| CUL-175 | Food Truck Prod & Service | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| HRM-170 | Food Truck Operations | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Credit Hours | 7 | 4 | 9 | |
| Total Required Minimum Semester Hours Credit | 17 | |||
Professor Erin Durkee, Culinary Arts Coordinator
105 Little Hall
910.246.4941
durkeeer@sandhills.edu