Bakers and patissiers produce bread, cakes, desserts, and petit fours for various hospitality business. As a TAFE Queensland student you'll gain practical experience in our on-campus training kitchens where you'll prepare and serve bread and patisserie items for real customers.
Get the skills you need to start a career as a butcher, smallgoods maker, or meat boner and slicer. Our retail butchery courses will give you the practical skills needed to identify and prepare cuts of meat, manage hygiene, and become a storage and presentation expert.
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Our cookery courses give you hands-on experience preparing salads, stocks, sauces, seafood, meat, poultry, breads and pastries. You'll graduate qualified to start a career as a food safety supervisor, cook, chef, or chef de partie in a variety of hospitality organisations.
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The hospitality industry offers a variety of exciting career pathways. Whether you want an entry-level, supervisory, or management position in accommodation, casinos, clubs, food and beverage, or restaurants, we have a course to get you there.
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Take a look at our RPL program. Fast track your way to a formal qualification by receiving recognition for the study you have completed or the skills you've gained from the workplace.
Our hospitality hubs combine commercial kitchens and open to the public restaurants and cafes to give our hospitality students the ability to practice in a live service environment. Our purpose-built facilities will allow you to build hands-on skills that you can take straight into the workforce.
Our training cafes are open to the public and offer affordable meals to students, staff, and the wider community. They also offer a valuable opportunity for our hospitality, cookery, and bakery students to put their skills into practice in alive training environment. LEARN MORE
Our range of on-campus training restaurants not only provide our students with a range of affordable food options, but also give our hospitality and cookery students an opportunity to learn and practice their food preparation and customer service skills. LEARN MORE
Our training cafes are open to the public and offer affordable meals to students, staff, and the wider community. They also offer a valuable opportunity for our hospitality, cookery, and bakery students to put their skills into practice in a live training environment. LEARN MORE
From five star hotels and Michelin-starred restaurants to internationally renowned casinos; the opportunities are endless.
Students completing a vocational placement as a part of their course will need to adhere to their placement provider’s workplace policies and conditions of employment. This may include being vaccinated against COVID-19 and providing proof of your vaccination status. For more information and a full list of impacted courses, visit the health advice page.
In recognition of the critical role the industry will play in Australia's economic recovery, experienced tourism and hospitality professionals can now have their existing skills and experience recognised for free as part of TAFE Queensland's FREE RPL program.
TAFE Queensland students Alec Stemmler and Anne Park have rubbed shoulders with famous TV chef Hiroyuki Sakai at his restaurant, La Rochelle, in Japan.
Through a delicious pairing, TAFE Queensland and Le Cordon Bleu will support more hospitality students to develop their skills and reach higher standards in a range of disciplines.