The course of Catering Industry Manager is organized for people running restaurants, hotels, motels, etc., students of hotel and catering industries, graduates of secondary hotel and catering schools and other people who want to raise their qualifications. The training consists of 52 hours of lectures and 12 hours of practical classes, which are held twice a week in the afternoon (4.00 p.m. - 7.45 p.m.).

The aim:

The course prepares the participants for running a gastronomy facility independently and offers further professional qualifications. The syllabus is consistent with the European Union requirements.

The syllabus includes:

- Catering industry marketing,
- Catering industry in tourism,
- Commodity science in gastronomy,
- Legal and administrative regulations in catering industry,
- Management system in catering industry,
- Food safety managing system - HACCP,
- Principles of feeding people,
- Catering services and their standards,
- Catering industry in UE,
- Finance (taxes) in catering industry,
- Safety and hygiene in group feeding facilities,
- Employment, systematic adaptation of catering industry to labour law and the requirements of the National Labour Inspectorate of Poland,
- Supervision of overall activity and staff recruitment policy,
- Functions, principles and techniques of catering industry,
- Practical classes.

The schedule consists of practical classes organized in a specially prepared and adequately equipped restaurant hall of Hotel Novotel "Marina" in Gdansk (20 Jelitkowska Street). The classes are held by experienced hotel and restaurant employers with excellent, practical qualifications (chefs, waiters, bartenders etc.).

Practical classes include the techniques of customer's support services:

1. Presentation of proper use of catering business equipment. Rules of choosing tableware.
2. Presentation, techniques, and rules of restaurant services.
3. Presentation, techniques, and rules of bar services.
4. Rules of staff behaviour.
5. Ways and rules of assessing catering services.

At the end of the course there is an internal exam checking the knowledge of the course participants. After the course graduates receive the Certificate.