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Hospitality
Take your Hospitality skills to a new level with one of our inspiring short courses at either our Hawke’s Bay or Tairāwhiti campuses.
Some of our short courses are running but some are on hold due to the Hawke’s Bay Campus closure following Cyclone Gabrielle. To find out if a course is running, please click on the course below.
Artisan Sourdough
When Master Baker Harald Mauch opened Harald’s Bread World in Napier, he brought a 100-year long, four-generation family history in European baking to Hawke’s Bay.
Using traditional European recipes making a wide range of different sourdoughs and Danishes. Harald’s emphasis is on health; all products are made from natural ingredients.
This three evening artisan bread course will have you baking like Harald in no time. You will produce sourdough baguettes, Danish pastries, potato bread, focaccia bread and a variety of buns.
Enjoy a grazing platter on the first night and light snacks in the following nights.
Duration: Three evenings, 5.30pm-9.00pm
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: EIT | Te Pūkenga Bakery School, Meeanee Road, Taradale
Cost: $195
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Barista - Hastings
Learn about the history of coffee, how to operate and maintain espresso machines, get hands-on practical training for all coffee styles and an introduction to customer service skills.
Students must be 16 years or older.
This course is run over two days, 9am-3pm.
Duration: Two days
Dates: Choose from the dates below
9 & 11 October 2023
6 & 8 November 2023
Venue: Hastings Learning Centre, 416 Heretaunga Street West, Hastings
Cost: $150
To secure your place contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Barista - Taradale
Introduction to Barista Skills
Learn about the history of coffee, how to operate and maintain espresso machines, get hands-on practical training for all coffee styles and an introduction to customer service skills.
Students must be 16 years or older.
This course is run over two evenings, 6pm-9pm.
Duration: Two evenings
Dates: 18 & 20 September 2023
Venue: EIT | Te Pūkenga Bakery, Meeanee Road, Taradale (next to Taradale Fire Station)
Cost: $150
To secure your place contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Bartenders
This short course is great for part-time university jobs, full-time work in hospitality, or just some bar skills to add to your CV.
Learn the principles and practices of bartending, host responsibility and how to serve beer, wine and spirits.
Students must be 18 years or older.
This course is run over two days, 9am-3pm both days.
*Please note: This is not the Bar Managers (LCQ) qualification.
Duration: Two days
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: Scholars Restaurant, Hawke’s Bay Campus, 501 Gloucester Street, Taradale
Tutor: Chris Toomey
Cost: $250
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Bread and Beer
Join us for an exciting new short course where you can combine your love for bread and beer, and further your baking skills using beer bread grains. This course will be led by expert baker Harold Mauch.
During this course you will prepare, process and bake different products using beer. These delicious products will include beer bread with grains, German brezeln, rye bread and its variations.
Duration: One evening, 5.30pm-9pm
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: EIT | Te Pūkenga Bakery School, Meeanee Road, Taradale (next to Taradale Fire Station)
Cost: $85
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Festive DIY Food Gifts
Are you stuck for Christmas gifts but love food?
Come along to our Short Course ‘Festive workshop on DIY Food Gifts’ for family and friends. Create your own meaningful gifts from the heart that include sustainable and creative packaging. At the end of each workshop, you will have approximately 5 (or more) gifts to takeaway, sustainably packaged and ready to wrap.
There are three separate workshops – you can attend one, two, or all three!
Workshop 1 – Day One:
DIY foodie gifts such as Seed cracker Jars, personalised handmade fortune cookies, cocktail sachets and more!
Workshop 2 – Day Two:
Homemade eco friendly beauty therapy products such as infused bath salts, essential oil perfumes and chocolate treats.
Workshop 3 – Day three:
Entertain the whanau without stress!
Quick and easy finger food you can prepare in advance and learn how to build a grazing platter. Finish it off with a fizzy festive cocktail recipe you can spike yourself on Christmas Day!
Duration: Three evenings (5.30pm-8.30pm)
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: P Block, Hawke’s Bay Campus, 501 Gloucester Street, Taradale
Cost: $70 + processing fee per workshop OR $210 + processing fee for all three workshops
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Food Costing
Learn to accurately cost food recipes and further develop your skills and knowledge related to food cost control measures in a commercial kitchen.
Throughout this course you will learn to calculate accurate food costs, apply portion and waste control measures and evaluate menu engineering data in order to improve financial efficiency.
The structure of this fully online course includes interactive activities, videos and practice quizzes which you can use to test your knowledge.
Course content includes:
Theoretical vs Actual food costs – understanding the cost of your dish verses what your accountant tells you.
Maximising the profit potential of your menus.
Menu Engineering – manipulate menus to maximise gross profit.
Analyse and reduce waste.
The course involves fully online learning plus an applied project. It is self-paced, which means you can work through it at times that suit you and your work schedule.
Length: 30 hours
Dates: Start anytime
Cost: $175
To start the course contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Food Safety - Hawke's Bay
Our Certificate in Food Handling helps attendees understand how to keep food safe and customers from getting food-borne illnesses. The course meets Napier and Hastings Council’s requirements as a Food Worker in any hospitality business.
The course works through the Food Control Plan and all the forms you would be using on a shift to ensure food is safe and meeting compliance requirements.
This course is run over two days, 9am-3pm both days.
Duration: Two days
Dates: Choose from the dates below
26 and 27 September 2023
28 and 29 November 2023
Venue: Hastings Learning Centre, 416 Heretaunga Street West, Hastings
Cost: $285
To secure your place contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Food Safety - Waipukurau
Our Certificate in Food Handling helps attendees understand how to keep food safe and customers from getting food-borne illnesses. The course meets Council’s requirements as a Food Worker in any hospitality business.
The course works through the Food Control Plan and all the forms you would be using on a shift to ensure food is safe and meeting compliance requirements.
This course is run over two days, 3pm-7pm both days.
Duration: Two afternoons
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: Central Hawke’s Bay Learning Centre, 53 Russell Street, Waipukurau
Cost: $285
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Food Safety - Tairāwhiti
This course offers essential training on all things related to food safety, such as hand hygiene, personal hygiene, cleaning, food allergies, hazardous food, preventing cross contamination and much more.
Upon completion of this certificate you will have gained knowledge on how to implement a food control plan.
This course is run over two days.
Duration: Two days
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: Toru Restaurant, Tairāwhiti Campus, 290 Palmerston Road, Gisborne
Cost: $285
To register your interest in our next course contact Kylie Kahukiwa today!
Email: kkahukiwa@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 869 3081
Food Safety - Wairoa
Our Certificate in Food Handling helps attendees understand how to keep food safe and customers from getting food-borne illnesses. The course meets local council requirements as a Food Worker in any hospitality business.
The course works through the Food Control Plan and all the forms you would be using on a shift to ensure food is safe and meeting compliance requirements.
This course is run over two days, 9am-3pm each day.
Duration: Two days (Monday and Tuesday)
Dates: 2 and 3 October 2023
Venue: Wairoa Learning Centre, 6 Paul Street, Wairoa 4108
Cost: $285 (plus processing fee)
To secure your place contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Greek Cookery
Come and enjoy a night of Greek cuisine.
Learn to cook a Greek lemon chicken and potatoes, a Greek salad and Bougatsa.
Bougatsa (Greek μπουγάτσα [buˈɣatsa]) is a Greek breakfast pastry (sweet or savoury) consisting of either semolina, custard, cheese, or minced meat filling between layers of phyllo.
This course is held from 6pm-9pm.
Duration: One evening
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: Production Kitchen, P Block, Hawke’s Bay Campus, 501 Gloucester Street, Taradale
Cost: $85
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Junior Chef
Feed the Soul
Join us for our next school holiday Junior Chef short course, Feed the Soul, and create soul food like fried breads, seafood chowder, raw fish, steam pudding, custard and more…
One of our highly skilled Chef Tutors will take you through our exciting short course that will inspire you to continue on your pathway to becoming a Chef and impress all those you cook for!
Students must be 14+ and still be at secondary school. This course may be available via the School STAR programme. Please contact your STAR Coordinator for information. Limited places.
This course is run over three days, 9am-3pm each day.
Duration: Three days
Dates: Choose from the following dates
10, 11 and 12 July 2023
25, 26 and 27 September 2023
Venue: EIT | Te Pūkenga Bakery, Meeanee Road, Taradale (next to Taradale Fire Station)
Cost: $100
To secure your place contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
LCQ - Hawke's Bay
(Liquor) License Controllers Qualification NZQA Unit Standards – a must before you apply for your bar manager’s license with the council.
By law, every hospitality business that sells alcohol must have a qualified person in charge at all times.
After completing the License Controllers Qualification (LCQ) you will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 and the responsibilities and requirements for service of alcohol in a licensed premises.
Students must be 18 years or older.
Duration: Two consecutive Mondays
Dates: Choose from the following dates
26 June and 3 July 2023 (1pm-4pm)
20 and 27 November 2023 (6pm-9pm)
Venue: Hastings Learning Centre, 416 Heretaunga Street West, Hastings
Cost: $215
To secure your place contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
LCQ - Tairāwhiti
(Liquor) License Controllers Qualification NZQA Unit Standards – a must before you apply for your bar manager’s license with the council.
By law, every hospitality business that sells alcohol must have a qualified person in charge at all times.
After completing the License Controllers Qualification (LCQ) you will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 and the responsibilities and requirements for service of alcohol in a licensed premises.
Duration: Two days, 1pm-4pm
Dates: Thursday, 21 September and Thursday, 12 October 2023
Venue: Toru Restaurant, Tairāwhiti Campus, 290 Palmerston Road, Gisborne
Cost: $215
To secure your place contact Kylie Kahukiwa today or click the Enrol Now button to book and pay now!
Email: kkahukiwa@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 869 3081
LCQ - Wairoa
(Liquor) License Controllers Qualification NZQA Unit Standards – a must before you apply for your bar manager’s license with the council.
By law, every hospitality business that sells alcohol must have a qualified person in charge at all times.
After completing the License Controllers Qualification (LCQ) you will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 and the responsibilities and requirements for service of alcohol in a licensed premises.
Students must be 18 years or older.
Duration: Two days
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: Wairoa Learning Centre, 6 Paul Street, Wairoa
Cost: $215
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Plant-based Taster
Plant-based cooking is more than just a movement, it’s a way of life. You might live on a plant-based diet, or are looking to add more variety into your meals. Either way, plant-based eating is not only great for you, it could save the world!
This two evening short course introduces you to exciting recipes and gives you a taste of what our Plant-based Training Scheme is all about.
The taster will introduce you to recipes like:
Day One: Kimchi and Tofu Dumplings with Thai broth.
Day Two: Salted Caramel raw slice.
Duration: Two evenings
Dates: To be confirmed
Venue: P Block, Hawke’s Bay Campus, 501 Gloucester Street, Taradale
Cost: $165
To register your interest in our next course contact Margaret Skews today!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Tourism and Hospitality Upselling
Learn how you can add value to both your workplace and your customers with this micro-credential in Upselling.
Throughout this course you will develop your knowledge, skills and attributes in upselling for tourism or hospitality and gain the soft skills to better engage in upselling.
Course content includes:
- The Basics of Selling
- The Sales Process
- Know Your Products and Services
- Adding Value to Products and Services
The course involves fully online learning. It is self-paced, which means you can work through it at times that suit you and your work schedule.
Length: 80 hours
Dates: Start anytime
Cost: $275
To start the course contact Margaret Skews today or click the Enrol Now button!
Email: mskews@eit.ac.nz or Phone: 06 830 1421
Check out the full list of Hospitality programmes on offer.