Assemble Your Culinary Career

by AJ Fanter
ajfanter@careerschoolguide.com
Career School Guide Columnist

To the delight of career women (and men) everywhere, dinner time just got a whole lot easier, thanks to a brand new culinary trend: meal-assembly shops. These popular new businesses, some of which are franchises, are popping up all over the country.

If you’ve got a passion for the culinary arts, but want a culinary career that offers a bit more flexibility than a traditional restaurant job, this sizzling new culinary-meets-retail-career, could be just the answer for you.

Culinary Career with Freedom

Have you been looking for a culinary career that will allow you a bit more freedom than a traditional restaurant job, but will still give you the chance to share your passion for culinary traditions? Maybe it’s time to consider attending culinary school and opening your very own meal-assembly business.

Shopping or Cooking? Both!

Essentially, a meal-assembly store gives busy career folks a fast and easy way to have a home cooked meal for their family, every night of the week, without the added work of shopping, chopping, or cleaning up. Customers come to the store at a pre-arranged time and “assemble” a series of meals using a variety of already “prepped” ingredients. The meals are the packaged up, brought home, and placed in the freezer until it’s time for the customer to take them out, stick them in the oven and heat them up.

Culinary School

Not unlike personal chefs, those who own meal assembly stores can absolutely benefit from attending culinary school. The reason? Not only will attending culinary school teach you the basics of proper food preparation and storage, but you will master a variety of culinary techniques and traditions.

If you think the idea of owning your own meal-assembly business sound appealing, then maybe it’s time to head back to school and assemble your own culinary career!

Sources

Make a Meal Business is Cooking
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About the Author

AJ Fanter is a freelance writer based in Reno, Nevada.