Turn Your Passion Into Profit!
Guide to Becoming a Foodpreneur
Have you ever thought how it will be if you turn you passion into profit? Well maybe it is everyone’s dream. For example, creatives who dream about turning their passion into a business. A writer wants to quit their job and work on their stories full time. A musician says she’d love to get paid to create music. An artist dreams about working on their paintings all day and not just in the evenings or on weekends. And if you love cooking, being a foopreneur might also be your dream.
What is foodpreneur?
This word combines “food” with “entrepreneur” to create a whole new career title. Foodpreneur describes an innovative entrepreneur that has chosen food creation as their passion. Rather than simply producing a consumable product, foodpreneurs think of their food as something that makes people feel satisfied, nurtured and loved. It’s more like a way of life, creating goodness to share with other people.
Advantages become a foodpreneur
- Be More Creative
If you are a foodpreneur, you will also focus on preparing recipes. You can use your creativity in the kitchen and inspire others by making your own recipes. Cooking allows you to become more creative and innovative.
- Turn Passion into Profit
As cooking is your passion, being a foodpreneur is the right answer. You can make money by doing what you love. As we also know, the culinary industry keeps developing both nationally and internationally.
- Unlimited Opportunites
The cooking process is the clearest example of how you can develop widely applicable skills while doing something you love, and the best thing is you can open many doors to many opportunities, such as meet new incredible people, taste new recipes everyday and travel around the world to find the best ingredients.
How to get started?
Yes, having passion is important, but is passion enough to make your business successful? You need to have broad knowledge about management in the kitchen; it includes all aspects, from operational, cost-control to human resources. They must work together and do a successful business. A successful business needs a great leader, and it is your time to be that leader.
If you find that hard to start on your own, then SGU International Culinary Business is the right place to start. SGU International Culinary Business will be suitable for those who really want to focus on building a career as a culinary entrepreneur.
SGU offers accredited degrees with international exposure in Switzerland through our partner university (International Management Institute Switzerland). Our partnership with prominent associations (Association of Culinary Professionals, PT Langgeng Makmur Kencana, and others) within the culinary industry also allows our students to learn directly from industry professionals.
SGU is the first and only to offer a double degree program in Culinary Business in Indonesia. Through this program, every student is required to go to Switzerland and study at the International Management Institute.
The program consists of culinary courses taught by experienced SGU lecturers in Indonesia and world-class European culinary courses in Switzerland. You will continue to expand your skills and knowledge towards advanced skills. In the final semesters, entrepreneurial skills will equip you to become future owners/operators in the culinary industry.
Speaking of internships, every SGU International Culinary Business student will be required to participate in two internships: in Indonesia and abroad. In their first internship in Indonesia, students will be usually directed to hot kitchens (a kitchen that supports the use of heat in cooking all sorts of ingredients, whether by boiling, steaming, frying, stir-frying, stewing, or roasting, etc.). Students will usually be directed to take the cold kitchens (a kitchen that supports cooking processes that do not require heat).
These two internship programs are formed so that students can gain advanced culinary skills. Those who want to be chefs or entrepreneurs can be more focused. Students will also be further nurtured through the 5 Days Culinary Preneur program, an additional program special for International Culinary Business students that allows them to make a culinary business plan with experienced mentors.
SGU International Culinary Business graduates will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in managerial positions within the culinary industry, in addition to potential owners of future culinary establishments. The following are some career prospects for those of you who study International Culinary Business at SGU:
- Chef Owner (Restaurant, Café, Bakery, etc.)
- Professional Chef
- Culinary Consultant
- Food Stylist
- Catering Services
- Cruise Staff
About SGU
SWISS GERMAN UNIVERSITY (SGU) is an international university in Indonesia, was established in 2000 as a joint effort between Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. We are the pioneer in offering international curricula in Indonesia. Qualified students can graduate with a Double Degree from Indonesia and Germany, which SGU provides in cooperation with partner universities; surely a valuable tool for your future careers. Ever since its establishment, SGU has been dedicated to delivering quality education in line with international standards and aims to develop skilled professionals who meet the demands of the industry. In order to achieve its objectives, SGU offers quality-oriented learning through 12 Bachelor’s Degree Programs and 4 Master’s Degree Programs ranging from Engineering, Information Technology, and Business to Life Sciences and Social Sciences. Furthermore, with small class sizes, and with English as the medium of instruction, you can look forward to pursuing your tertiary education and degree with full confidence.
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