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Restaurant and food processing

You learn

  • about diet, food and nutrition
  • preparing and serving food
  • how to process raw materials, food and beverages
  • about food traditions
  • about health-promoting lifestyle and hygiene

Suits you if you are

  • practically minded and good at working with your hands
  • creative and meticulous
  • service minded

You can become

  • a cook, an a nutritional cook or a waiter
  • a baker or a confectioner
  • a sausage maker or a meat cutter
  • a butcher, a fresh goods retailer or a seafood retailer
  • a seafood production technician or a industrial food production technician

Workplaces may be

  • the hotel or restaurant industry
  • hospitals and health institutions
  • the food production industry
  • bakeries, pastry shops or butcher–s shops
  • shops that sell fresh produce

More education

  • More education 1: You can take further education at a tertiary vocational college. A tertiary vocational education is a short vocational further education meant for those who have taken vocational education and training.
  • More education 2: You can take the master certificate examination if you have the trade or journeyman’s certificate in a trade that comes under the master craftsman’s programme, and have sufficient experience. The master course of studies qualifies you for a management or middle-management position within your trade area, and gives you the competence to start up your own company.
  • More education 3: You can take a Vg3 supplementary programme for general university admissions certification – after Vg2 or – after achieving vocational competence. You will then have the option to take higher education at a university college or university. Remember that some study programmes, such as for instance engineering, science and medical studies, require you to have certain science subjects.
  • More education 4: You can also apply for admission to higher education after a preliminary course or by the Y-path, the vocational pathway to higher education. The Y-path is intended for those with relevant vocational experience. Preliminary courses and the Y-path are most commonly used for science and engineering studies.