Success Stories

Culinary Management graduate Andrea Robichaud gives back to local businesses during pandemic.
Andrea is a Culinary Management graduate who was laid off from her restaurant job during the pandemic. During this time, to support local businesses, she created ‘Cooking for a Cause at Home’, a subscription-based business that features contributions from local restaurants with 100% of proceeds going to food-focused charitable organizations. Well done, Andrea! Read more about Chef Andrea and her successes here.

• Andrea Robichaud, Chef & Small Business Owner, Brand Ambassador at Women Entrepreneurs Saskatchewan.

Read: Algonquin College linked to Ottawa restaurants listed in Canada’s Top 100.
Alumni and profs at four of the city’s top restaurants highlight the quality of programs offered by the School of Hospitality and Tourism.

UPDATE: Read this Globe and Mail article about how Ben will become the new head chef at Noma, the two-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen that’s considered one of the best in the world! See what they’re serving at Noma’s pop-up restaurant in Australia.

“The Culinary Management program provides that base you need. I learned that if you put effort in, you get results. You make a nice base for the sauce and it’s a nice plate.” Find out how Ben followed his passion to work in one of the world’s best restaurants. Read the full Ottawa Citizen story here.
– Ben Ing,
Culinary Management Graduate, Head Chef, Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark

“The practical experience I gained in the labs of Algonquin College gave me the opportunity to develop the skills I needed to succeed within the culinary industry. I believe this strong hands-on learning component is necessary to prepare students for real-world success.”
– Michael Moffatt
Culinary Management Graduate
Executive Chef, Beckta, Play Food and Wine, and Gezellig

“Algonquin’s Culinary program has given me a strong foundation in culinary skills, food and beverage management concepts. It’s been a great asset to help me improve and innovate my area of expertise in Caribbean cuisine and to launch my own business.” – Resa Solomon-St.Lewis

Congratulations to AC Culinary Skills – Chef Training graduate Resa Solomon-St.Lewis, of Baccanalle in Ottawa! Resa won the Embassy Chef Challenge, an amazing fundraising event in support of the IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Foundation that pits Chef against Chef as they represent a number of Embassies and Diplomatic Missions to Canada. See the photos here. Watch the video here!
Resa was proud to represent her heritage home, The High Commission for the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.

Marie-Cécile Nottaway, Culinary Skills and Culinary Management graduate and founder of Wawatay Catering, says the chef skills program, and the chefs who ran it, were flexible enough to encourage her interest in combining traditional foods with modern culinary techniques. “They said, ‘You don’t have to really go by the book. You can go and add a little bit of this and a little bit of that.’ That helped me to open up more,” Nottaway recalls. Find out more and watch the video here. Her CBC profile is here.