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NEW COMMERCIAL

KITCHEN UNVEILED!

Rich Township High The 1.4 million dollar commercial Chef Mark Crawford will be training
kitchen will enhance the district’s
and teaching the students. He says
School’s Pro-Start I and culinary arts curriculum by providing his goal is to prepare students to excel
Pro-Start II students will students with opportunities to learn in the workforce. “I want to give them
be slicing and dicing in the philosophy of the food service the hands on experience to open their
industry such as sanitation and proper own restaurant, food truck or manage a
a new state of the art food handling and storage, restaurant restaurant or culinary career at a hotel.”
commercial kitchen. The equipment usage and maintenance, Chef Crawford is a native Chicagoan
professionalism and real-world industry who’s successful career has taken him
commercial kitchen is experiences for competitions and from the Signature Room at the top of
located at the Fine Arts catering events. This new addition will the John Hancock Tower to stadiums in
and Communication create dining service and training for Philadelphia. He likes to inspire young
campus. both students, parents, and specialty people and says, “You have to have a
passion for what you do.”
events, and create and expand
partnerships with local businesses
ProStart gives students the exciting
opportunity to learn about the art of
cooking and managing restaurants by
training with professional chefs while
getting valuable classroom instruction.
Pro-Start is the capstone course for
students in the culinary arts career
pathway.

Students will work and learn in a new,
state-of-the-art kitchen. Some of the
new equipment our students will be
trained on will include Hobart mixers,
convection ovens, tilt-skillets, grills,
broilers, steamers, commercial dish
machines, special gas stove tops, a
steam oven, plus slicers, fryers, coolers,
and cutlery. There will be ample food
prep areas and point of sale (p.o.s)
systems.

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