The latest training tips and methods for hotel, restaurant, cafe, culinary, club, bar & waiter trainers and educators.
These pages are designed to inspire you and your students: if learning is enjoyable, retention is always improved. Do a great job and advance your career...
Links to useful training sites, culinary resources, food & beverage information, chef training, waiter training and online training. Plus Powerpoint and presentation resources, training in computer and numeracy skills, customer service training and information to help you use blogs, online groups and podcasting as training tools.
If you're from a college or education website, why not add this page to your Link resources.
Check the Training Library for entries before July 2006 (still very useful).
SUGGESTIONS? Please email ideas and tips to include in this collection.
Textbook & Book Price Comparison Websites
Need to check where you or students can find textbooks at the cheapest price? There are several to use: TextBookPriceComparison and DirectTextBook. Also for Australian searchers, Booko is always useful.
Can also be used for comparing the prices of cookbooks.
Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 11:41
5 Rules for Better Powerpoint Presentations
For students, managers or any time a slide presentation is needed:
Sunday, Jan 10, 2010 03:39
How to Improve Student (and Office Staff) Skills with Technology
For all the cool new laptops and talk about 'digital natives', most students still use their computers like a typewriter. And let's not start on the teachers or managers, or office staff at a hotel or restaurant...
Share this useful article on how to be a better student by leveraging some clever computer tools to your advantage.
Thursday, Jan 07, 2010 10:26
10 Social Media Tasks for a Hospitality Marketing Intern or Student
This is much more interesting (and useful) than updating the media list or the meaningless 'busy work' that most students are assigned to. Read this great article: 10 SOCIAL MEDIA TASKS FOR SUMMER INTERNS.
Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010 06:29
Lots of ideas on how to Green your Training Facilities
Very fertile source of ideas for teachers and students at the Green Schools Alliance. Inspiration for culinary schools and colleges...
Sunday, Jan 03, 2010 06:27
A Chef's Blog of her Culinary Training
Plenty of work, good photography and a heap of discipline have gone into the blog of this Canadian culinary student A Chef in Training. Through the two years of her training so far, she gives us a week by week account of the course, results, work life and even some family news - a very good read.
Any other hospitality students or teachers blogging? Please let us know...
Saturday, Jan 02, 2010 01:24
Tourism Trends & Forecasts for Students in Australia
Restaurant Management
For all the cool new laptops and talk about 'digital natives', most students still use their computers like a typewriter. And let's not start on the teachers or managers, or office staff at a hotel or restaurant... 
Plenty of work, good photography and a heap of discipline have gone into the blog of this Canadian culinary student 
Great information on Australian tourism trends, forecasts and research at 