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Butler Community College 2025-26 Catalog 
    
Butler Community College 2025-26 Catalog

Professional Culinary Arts (Certificate C)


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Program Information

A Chef Apprenticeship Program Certificate allows students to use their creativity and business acumen to solve problems and please customers in careers such as Executive Chefs, Banquet Chef, Restaurant owner or culinary entrepreneur, food writer/photographer, culinary educator, Corporate or research chef. Students will demonstrate and present their skills in Professional cooking and food preparation including Garde-manger (cold-food preparation), baking and pastry, butchering and regional cuisines. Students will participate in Supervisory management, sanitation and kitchen design/engineering, nutrition and meal planning, cost accounting and business mathematics, seminars in purchasing and menu design planning. Throughout this time students gain a comprehensive business management foundation for preparing food, meeting customer needs, and running a kitchen.

Contact Information

Les Padzensky
Director
316.323.6256
Office: BOA, Redler Institute #104
lpadzens@butlercc.edu

Ethan Moulds
Lead Instructor
Office: BOA, Redler Institute #102
316.322.3349
emoulds@butlercc.edu

Peter Linden
Dean
Office: BOA, 5109A
316.323.6302
plinden@butlercc.edu

Second Term: 12 Credit Hours


Select one: 3 Credit Hours


Fourth Term: 9 Credit Hours


Total Certificate Pathway Credit Hours: 45-46


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