Cooking career on the boil

A NARRE Warren company is doing its bit to help budding chefs get a start in the hospitality industry.
Momentum Personnel has helped develop Hospitality Hotshots – a one-year program designed to provide pre-employment training to young adults with the aim of securing employment on completion of the course.
The initiative, established to help people with special needs, will result in a group of eight young people serving food at the William Angliss Casey Cafe.
It is all part of the successful Cranbourne Community Kitchen initiative – designed to provide meals for those locals who are financially less fortunate.
Hotshot participants will learn skills in five main areas including coffee making, responsible serving of alcohol, basic food handling, responsible service of gaming and work preparation.
The next dinner has been scheduled for 14 March.
The program was developed in partnership with Outlook and the Department of Human Services.
The community kitchen will also announce on the night its new major sponsor the National Australia Bank, which will cover some of the dinners throughout the year.
Casey Cafe owner Phil Sealey said it was great to have the help providing hundreds of meals to disadvantaged people.
“It will be good not to have to put our hands in our own pockets as much,” he said.
Mr Sealey said the organisers were still looking for other businesses to help out with funding.
The next community kitchen will be held on Wednesday, 14 March from 5.30pm to 8pm at the Casey Cafe, 65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road.
Meals are free and will include a barbecue of sausages and burgers, kebabs, salads and cold drinks.
For more information call 5996 2901.