Restaurant & Culinary Management

You’ll be trained by professionals who have already done what you dream of doing, and succeeded. Our experienced instructors have opened and operated restaurants, catering businesses, food shops and more. Many are active consultants, meaning they have experience working with aspiring entrepreneurs just like you. With them, you'll study how to develop profitable business concepts, write a business plan and get to know the finer points of culinary marketing. You’ll practice troubleshooting restaurant and bar management issues concerning operations and staffing, analyze changing trends and make fiscal modifications to keep your business profitable.

Through case studies, role-playing and group projects, we will show you how to make smart decisions for your business. You’ll also have a chance to gain valuable professional insight through field trips and lectures with successful culinary entrepreneurs and restaurant managers, which will help you better understand how to open a food business.

Our students have diverse goals and experiences: A typical culinary management class might include career changers from fields such as marketing, finance, nursing or IT; recent high school or college graduates; and even working chefs or restaurant owners and operators who want to master the business side of the restaurant industry. Many culinary management graduates have pursued management and operations careers outside the kitchen while others combine this business-minded education with a culinary arts program to pursue leadership roles inside the kitchen.

Enrolling in our Culinary Arts, Pastry & Baking Arts or Plant-Based Culinary Arts programs in addition to Restaurant & Culinary Management allows you to double up and gain a dual diploma. We structure our course schedules to allow you to pursue both programs simultaneously and offer tuition incentives to help make realizing your professional goals that much easier.

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New York City and Los Angeles are two of the world’s culinary capitals, hosting fine restaurants and prominent chefs. We take full advantage of our locations, leading students on behind-the-scenes field trips and offering candid lectures with successful culinary entrepreneurs and restaurant managers. What’s more, many entrepreneurial graduates return to ICE throughout their careers to share their experience with students and consult with our expert instructors.

Leading up to graduation, our career services team will help you identify potential employers and careers in the culinary industry — but the relationship doesn’t stop there. Even long after graduation, we support alumni with ongoing job placement assistance and weekly job listing updates from employers who already respect the value of an ICE education.