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Hospitality and cookery

Become a culinary professional and follow in the footsteps of Aotearoa New Zealand's many culinary stars with a Wintec qualification in culinary, cookery or hospitality. 

Our culinary, cookery, and baking programmes will prepare you to work as a cook, chef, or baker in a commercial kitchen. Guided by industry professional tutors, you will learn a variety of skills, such as preparing, cooking, and presenting a broad range of dishes, employing complex preparation, baking, and presentation techniques. You will also develop a deep understanding of sustainable practices to ensure you are current with industry cuisine trends, as well as many other essential skills needed to succeed in the industry. 

Hospitality courses will prepare you to become a front-of-house professional providing high-level customer service in a food and beverage environment. Develop your skills as a barista to produce top-notch coffee, learn effective techniques to communicate with customers, how to serve food and drinks professionally, and apply food safety protocols and security practices.

Windows, our prized student-run training restaurant, is a fully functioning, licensed training restaurant serving paying public guests. Studying hospitality or cookery at Wintec means you will get real-world, hands-on, practical experiences learning in two large commercial kitchens and a production kitchen.

Explore our programmes below and transform your tomorrow at Wintec.


"Here at Wintec, while there is definitely theory, practical knowledge is where the focus is. I get to do what I like the most, which is cool - not just drown myself in theory and books."

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