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Food & Beverage Operations
The Food & Beverage Operations certificate teaches students how to use their combined creative and business skills to manage the customer side of a restaurant or bar and other foodservice establishments such as a high end retail store, café or hospital.
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Food & Beverage Operations
Skills
Food and Beverage Managers are at the heart of the hospitality industry. At the end of the day, a well fed customer is a happy customer. The well-trained food and beverage manager is the one who uses their combined creative and business skills to manage the customer side of a restaurant or bar and other foodservice establishments such as a high end retail store, café, hospital, or school foodservice.
If you are looking to advance your food and beverage management career or gain new skills in this field, then the Certificate in Food & Beverage Operations Program at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division might be perfect for you.
The well-trained student will be able to create menus and determine the service needs and then lead the personnel to meet the customer needs. This is accomplished by having an ability to spot foodservice trends, awareness of customer needs, and a grounding in the technical aspects of managing a front of the house operation.
Career Portrait
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic, “Food service manager jobs are expected to grow 5 percent, or more slowly than the average for all occupations through 2018. However, job opportunities should be good because many openings will arise from the need to replace managers who leave the occupation."
Furthermore, “Employment of food service managers is expected to grow 5 percent, or more slowly than the average for all occupations, during the 2008-18 decade, as the number of eating and drinking establishments opening is expected to decline from the previous decade. Despite these reductions in the number of new eating and drinking places, new employment opportunities for food service managers will emerge in grocery and convenience stores and other retail and recreation industries to meet the growing demand for quick food in a variety of settings.”
Accreditation
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).