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NorthTec hospitality

Take heaps of high energy. Add bucket-loads of daily challenges. Stir slowly with constant creativity then cook at a passionate heat. Hospitality is a recipe for your career success.


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Whether it’s in the kitchen, front of house, or in a restaurant, there are great employment opportunities for chefs and trained hospitality professionals. NorthTec’s hospitality programmes can get you where you want to go.

Award-winning

Our hospitality programme has won the Hospitality Standards Institute (HSI) award for Excellence in Training - Training Provider (Qualification Pathways) for three years in a row. We have award-winning tutors and high-quality training facilities.

World class

Our training facilities here are world-class, with a working café, bar and restaurant and a fully outfitted barista training room at the Apprentice Restaurant. You’ll learn all aspects of the business – from the fine art of reading customers the minute they step through the door, to making them the perfect cup of coffee at the end of their meal.

Top tutors

Learn from some of the top chefs in Northland who will teach you what it takes to make it in the real world. The tutors have all done it themselves – working in top restaurants and hotels and owning their own businesses. 

Personal development

It’s not just about learning the skills you’ll need to be a chef, or hotel manager, it’s about gaining self-confidence, developing clear-thinking processes, and learning to go the distance.

Career pathways

Our hospitality programme pathways cater to all aspects of the industry from a solid grounding in basic cookery, to acquiring the skills of a chef, to owning or managing your own restaurant or boutique hotel.
 

Hospitality Courses


Meet the Staff

Kevin McAdams

I am a chef tutor teaching Level 3 cookery and have been with NorthTec for a few years now.

Pete Nicholl

I have 50 years experience as a Chef, and the past 15 years I have been a Chef Tutor at NorthTec.

Shane Williamson

I am a fully qualified chef, having trained at Waikato Polytechnic.

Shane Paraone

Hospitality tutor Shane Paraone loves seeing students light up. “They respond to what you’re doing and are really pleased with themselves when they a…

Hughie Blues

“It takes a special kind of person to love a career in cooking. There’s nothing better than a full-on service that’s going well, and part of the appe…

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Meet the Students

Usa Dechgitviriya - Diploma in Hospitality

“I first did the English course here at NorthTec then found out about the hospitality course. This course answers the ‘what, when and why’ of the work I was doing in Thailand.”