Certified Catering Professional (CCP)

Without the time and expense of a hospitality degree, you can study the fundamentals of catering management in this self-paced online course. It is made to complement your prior job experience in the catering and events industries with important ideas for creating a prosperous catering company.

You’ll first learn about service approaches and how to make sure you set aside the necessary funds for the kind of event. The art of working with different event planning services will thereafter be studied by you.

You’ll discover how to organize the preparation of food for an occasion, from portion sizes to food safety. Beverage management issues will also be covered.

Certification Program Objectives:

We’ll show you how to market your catering company effectively and go over catering contracts. You’ll learn how to manage human resources efficiently, from hiring and onboarding to performance reviews and exit interviews.

Finally, you’ll learn how to create financial statements, practice procedures for inventory valuation, and apply fundamental accounting principles to a catering firm.

Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 years of work experience in Catering

Certifying Examination:

• To be certified as CCP, student should take up a 1.5 hours exam at the designated examination centers.
• The qualifying exam would consist of 50 multiple choice questions, testing core certification modules.
• Professionals with relevant experience and other qualifying criteria may be exempted from the examination.

Certification Modules:

Module 1: Elements of Catering Services
Module 2: Events Management Collaboration
Module 3: Food Production Practices
Module 4: Inventory Valuation Methods