|
news
Food
Service Technology creates delicious jobs
By Joe Licavoli
On-line Forty-Niner
Flavorful smells
are filling the air at Cal State Long Beach with the newly
established Center of Foodservice Technology.
The center, located in the department of family and consumer
sciences in College of Health and Human Services, has a three
degree program: Nutrition and dietetics, hospitality food
service and hotel management food sciences.
The new-found department will hopefully create a brighter
future for workers in the food service industry, according
to Vala Stultz, director of the program.
A new technology involved will elevate food service positions
to higher paying jobs with benefits and upper mobility, Stultz
said.
Stultz came up with the idea of creating the CIFT department
after working with food service technology, finding that no
one is training in this field.
"We will be the only university to train students in
this field," Stultz said.
The Center of Foodservice Technology was established in December
2001 after a conference on a new type of food service technology
called Cook/Chill, Stultz said.
Cook/Chill is one of the main types of technology in CIFT.
It is designed to control cooking and provides rapid chilling
of food creating less health risk factors caused by high temperatures
and holding or freezing food, Stultz said.
"The process is so safe that [the cooks] can't
mess up but if they do, its big time," Stultz said.
Cook/Chill is safe but further research is being done to promote
sanitation in the food preparation process, Stultz said.
The Cook/Chill process will make food service industries able
to create food for 2,000 people at one time, Stultz said.
The CIFT program is preparing students to enter the work force
with a bachelor's at the managerial level, she said.
Hotels, restaurants, casinos, hospitals, schools, correctional
facilities, cruise lines and resorts are some industries that
would potentially hire a CIFT graduate. There are also companies
developing that wholesale food to small companies. Village
Green Foods in Irvine cooks for about 10 different restaurants,
such as providing soup for Ruby's, Stultz said.
The CIFT program will be introduced at this year's Cook/Chill
technology conference, held in October. To create an exciting
introduction, the department had a contest to create the logo
for CIFT.
The logo was created to look very technical since the CIFT
program is based in technology, said the winners of the contest.
|
|
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Search our site
DEPARTMENT
OF
JOURNALISM
ONLINE 49ER
DEPARTMENTS
ADVERTISING
ADMINISTRATION
DAILY
49ER ALUMNI
SUBSCRIPTION
SERVICE
GIVE
FEEDBACK
|
