Meet The Trainer

Sam is a hospitality industry veteran with over 30 years of experience. With his infectious passion for coffee, students will get nothing short of an immersive experience.

Specialties: Cafe management, team building, and coffee training
Mission: Help students excel in coffee training and make better coffee
Approach: Practical experience and hands-on learning opportunities
Dedication: Committed to enabling success and fostering excellence in his students

>>Get a glimpse of how Sam weaves in the finer details of coffee making in between instructions.

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What Will I Learn?

• How to work with all coffee machines
• How to make all popular coffee drinks
• How to get a silky texture when steaming milk
• Proper use of the coffee grinder
• Cleaning and upkeep of coffee machines
• Introduction to Coffee Art – Free Pouring, Layering, etc.

How to Make a Booking

To book into this course, please follow these simple steps:

• Select a date from the course timetable on this page.
• Complete the short online form.
• Make a payment via credit or debit card.
• Receive an email with confirmation of your booking.

Location

Shop 18/115 Wickham St Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Course Details

The service diners receive when dining out can make or break the entire experience, but with a bit of waiting training, you can ensure a memorable one. The Coffee School’s Waiting Skills Course will teach you just how to deliver such service to every table you serve. This course is perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their skill set to become a superior server.

The Coffee School’s Waiting Skills Course will give you the edge over other wait staff because many venues only employ servers with established skills. These venues rely on return clientele regardless of their menu or dress code. With waiting, barista and bar skills, you can work in all areas of a venue; these skills will endear you to any potential employer.

What You Will Learn

• How to set tables
• How to greet guests
• Various sales techniques
• How to take orders
• Exceptional plate service
• Critical customer relations skills

Assessment

Coffee School by CHT usually uses competency-based assessments through which you demonstrate that your acquired skills and knowledge meet nationally recognised standards. However, since this is a non-accredited course, there is no assessment.

Course Duration

One day, or two nights in our Sydney training facility.

Daytime (1 day): 9:00am – 3.30pm

or

Evening (2 nights): 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Certification

This is a non-accredited course, so participants only receive a Certificate of Participation once they have completed it.

Entrance Requirements / Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, at the course start date, learners must be at least 16 years old.

How to Enrol

Enrolment for our Brisbane Waiting Skills course involves four simple steps:

• Choose a date from the course timetable.
• Fill in your personal details in the space provided.
• Pay for the course using a credit or debit card.
• Wait for an email confirming your booking and complete the full enrolment form. This form must be completed before your course starts.

Course Details

A poor dining experience can negatively affect any hospitality venue. Consistently poor dining experiences can be disastrous. To avoid this, most hospitality venues have taken to only employing waiting staff with the relevant skills.

If you already have bartending and barista experience, supplementing them with waiting skills training can turn you into a highly desirable employee. Being able to work at multiple stations in a hospitality venue is valuable.

Our Sydney Waiting Skills course is ideal for anyone wanting to become a quality waiter, regardless of prior experience. Participants will receive practical exposure to service styles and other skills essential to delivering the best experience to diners.

What You Will Learn

• How to set tables
• Greeting guests
• Essential sales techniques
• How to take orders
• Plate service
• General customer relations

Assessment

Coffee School by CHT usually uses competency-based assessments through which you demonstrate that your acquired skills and knowledge meet nationally recognised standards. However, since this is a non-accredited course, there is no assessment.

Course Duration

One day, or two nights in our Sydney training facility.

Daytime (1 day): 9:00am – 3.30pm

or

Evening (2 nights): 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Certification

This is a non-accredited course, so participants only receive a Certificate of Participation once they have completed the course.

Entrance Requirements / Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, at course start date, learners must at least 16 years old.

How to Enrol

Enrolment for our Sydney Waiting Skills course involves four simple steps:

• Choose a date from the course timetable.
• Fill in your personal details in the space provided.
• Pay for the course using a credit or debit card.
• Wait for an email confirming your booking, and then complete the full enrolment form. This form must be completed before your course starts.

Course Details

The Responsible Conduct of Gambling (RCG) Certificate is a requirement if you are to be serving patrons where gambling and poker machines are on premises. Having your RCG certificate permits you to work anywhere in NSW where gaming services are provided. This includes:

• Pubs, clubs and hotels with poker machines
• All gaming in casinos
• Sports gambling venues such as horse-racing, greyhound racing and football

What You Will Learn

• Problem Gamblers
• Formal Procedures
• State & Territory Legislation
• Counselling Techniques
• Procedures in relation to barring of customers
• Social Impacts

Assessment

Our trainers will mark your assessments in class online as you complete your modules.

Course Duration

4 hours

Certification

Learners who succesfully complete this course will be issued with the nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the unit:

SITHGAM001 - Provide responsible gambling services

To obtain the RCG Competency Card you need to take the interim RCG Certificate to a Registered Services NSW Office to apply.

Pre-requisites and Entry requirements

There are no pre-requisite units for this course.

How to Make a Booking

To book into this course, please follow these simple steps:

• Select a date from the course timetable on this page.
• Complete the short online form.
• Make a payment via credit or debit card.
• Receive an email with confirmation of your booking.
• If you are completing a nationally recognised unit you will need to complete a short questionnaire which includes getting your USI (Unique Student Identifier.)

Course Details

The Brisbane Food Safety Supervisor Course teaches you the skills and knowledge necessary to safely store, prepare, display, dispose of, and serve food. In this course, you will learn to follow a set of predetermined procedures required by the food safety program.

The Brisbane Food Safety Supervisor Course applies to all food preparation establishments, whether permanent or temporary or just having a small food preparation area. These establishments include cafes, restaurants, hotels, clubs, functions, attractions, tour operators, events, attractions, conference catering, and exhibitions. It is also helpful in less prominent settings such as aged care facilities, hospitals, educational institutions, correctional centres, and defence forces. Even smaller food-orientated services such as canteens, kiosks, residential catering, fast food outlets, and in-flight and other transport catering require food safety skills.

The safe handling of food is typically based on practices carried out by an individual organisation. This program is based on the HACCP or hazard analysis and critical control points method but can also be applied to other food safety systems. This course is highly beneficial, if not essential, for those directly interacting with food in their day-to-day work. Such vocations include chefs, cooks, kitchen hands, caterers, and food and beverage attendants.

Food handlers must comply with the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code requirements.

What You Will Learn

• Safe food handling protocol
• How to control the spread of micro-organisms
• Personal hygiene practices
• Environmental hygiene practices
• Correct temperature control
• How to use thermometers and record temperatures

Assessment

Coffee School by CHT uses competency-based assessments through which you demonstrate that your acquired skills and knowledge meet nationally recognised standards. These include written assessments and skills demonstrations.

Course Duration

One day

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are issued with the nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the units:

SITXFSA001 - Use hygienic practices for food safety
SITXFSA002 - Participate in safe food handling practices

Entrance Requirements / Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, at the course start date, learners must be at least 16 years old.

How to Enrol

Enrolment for our Brisbane Food Safety Supervisor course involves four simple steps:

• Choose a date from the course timetable.
• Fill in your personal details in the space provided.
• Pay for the course using a credit or debit card.
• Wait for an email confirming your booking and complete the full enrolment form. This form must be completed before your course starts.

Course Details

Safe food handling practices are critical in any establishment that prepares and serves food. It doesn't only apply to clubs, bars, restaurants, cafes, and hotels. The practice is just as important in event, exhibition, and conference spaces, along with hospitals, aged care facilities, military bases, correctional facilities, educational institutions, cafeterias, fast-food outlets, canteens, kiosks, in-flight and transport catering, and some tour operators.

Not all States and Territories require businesses with food preparation areas or permanent or temporary kitchens to have a designated food safety supervisor. But most establishments would certainly benefit from having someone who has completed a Food Safety Supervisor course.

Learners who complete the Food Safety Supervisor course will gain skills and knowledge about safe food handling practices throughout the food preparation cycle. From storing food safely, through to preparing, displaying, serving, and disposing of food safely. Learners will need to show competence in procedures described in a food safety program.

The Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code requires all food businesses to have a food safety program in place. And a food safety supervisor would have the necessary knowledge to implement and audit a food safety program that clearly defines safe food handling procedures specific to the business. Food safety programs are usually based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) method. However, the Food Safety Supervisor course equips learners with the necessary skills and knowledge to follow any other food safety system.

What You Will Learn

• How to follow a food safety program
• How to prepare and store food safely
• How to achieve and maintain microbiological safety of food
• Monitoring food temperature and using proper cooling and heating procedures
• Proper thermometer use and recording procedures
• Maintaining personal hygiene
• Maintaining environmental hygiene
• How to prevent food contamination

Assessment

Coffee School by CHT uses competency-based assessments through which you demonstrate that your acquired skills and knowledge meet nationally recognised standards. These include written assessments and skills demonstration.

Course Duration

One day

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are issued with the nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the units:

SITXFSA001 - Use hygienic practices for food safety
SITXFSA002 - Participate in safe food handling practices

Entrance Requirements / Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, at course start date, learners must at least 16 years old.

How to Enrol

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, at course start date, learners must at least 16 years old.

• Choose a date from the course timetable.
• Fill in your personal details in the space provided.
• Pay for the course using a credit or debit card.
• Wait for an email confirming your booking, and then complete the full enrolment form. This form must be completed before your course starts.

Upcoming Courses

Fees and Government Funding

Learners who already hold a valid Statement of Attainment for Use hygienic practices for food safety (SITXFSA001) can complete the Sydney Food Safety Supervisor course for $110. Relevant documentation must be provided.

No Government funding is available for our Sydney Food Safety Supervisor course. Food Safety Supervisor is included in the Government funded Certificate IV in Hospitality (SIT40416), and Australian citizens and permanent residents could be eligible for this subsidised course.

Certificate IV in Hospitality is a nationally recognised qualification which includes

• Barista Coffee
• Bartending
• Food Handling and Food Safety Supervisor
• Leadership and Management
• Responsible Service of Alcohol
• Waiting Skills

Course Details

Chefs, caterers, cooks, kitchen hands and stewards, bar, food, and beverage attendants, are food handlers. During their work activities they handle food directly, or work with food contact surfaces such as cutlery and crockery. In some venues, room attendants and front office staff might also be considered food handlers. And food handlers must comply with requirements set out in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.

The best way to ensure your food business complies with the Food Standards Code is for all your food handlers to complete a Food Handling course. Coffee School's Sydney Food Handling course will equip all food handlers with the skills and knowledge for safe food handling. This includes personal hygiene and hygienic cleaning practices, along with the ability to identify food hazards that could lead to contaminated food and food-borne diseases.

Commercial, charitable, and community organisations with permanent or temporary kitchen premises or small food preparation or bar areas must comply with the Standard. This includes cafeterias, canteens, kiosks and fast-food outlets; restaurants, cafes, clubs, hotels, and bars; function, event, exhibition, and conference facilities with catering; educational institutions; aged care facilities and hospitals; some tour operators and attractions; correctional centres; in-flight and other transport catering.

What You Will Learn

• What food safety means
• Why food safety is important
• How to identify, assess, and report food hazards
• Correct procedures for controlling risks
• How to monitor food safety in the workplace

Assessment

Coffee School by CHT uses competency-based assessments through which you demonstrate that your acquired skills and knowledge meet nationally recognised standards. These include written assessments and skills demonstration.

Course Duration

Three hours

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are issued with the nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the unit:

SITXFSA001 – Use hygienic practices for food safety

Entrance Requirements / Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, at course start date, learners must be at least 16 years old.

How to Enrol

To enrol into this course, please follow these simple steps

• Choose a date from the course timetable.
• Fill in your personal details in the space provided.
• Pay for the course using a credit or debit card.
• Wait for an email confirming your booking, and then complete the full enrolment form. This form must be completed before your course starts.

Course Details

During the Barista Coffee Master Class, you will learn the practical skills and theory you need to make and pour various coffee-based beverages using hospitality-grade espresso machines and grinders. You will learn how to give customers coffee advice, choose and grind coffee beans, make and evaluate coffee-based drinks, and keep grinders and espresso machines clean.

The Barista Coffee Master Class is valid for those wishing to enter the hospitality industry to make and serve coffee. You can work at restaurants, cafes, clubs, bars, event venues, and functions. This course is ideal for those who want to operate espresso machines without constant supervision.

What will you learn

• How to tamp coffee and load the group handle
• How to make the perfect espresso by adjusting the grinder and espresso machines
• How to texture milk using advanced techniques
• How to create latte art using pouring and etching methods
• How to offer advice on specialist coffee
• How to recreate the coffee on the coffee menu
• How to clean and maintain grinders and espresso machines
• How to handle food safely and more

Assessment

Coffee School by CHT uses competency-based assessments through which you demonstrate that your acquired skills and knowledge meet nationally recognised standards. These include written assessments and skills demonstrations.

Course Duration

Two days

Once you have completed the course, you can return for a free refresher class every month for up to six months. This will allow you to practice the techniques taught during the course.

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are issued with the nationally recognised Statement of Attainment for the units:

SITHFAB025 - Prepare and serve espresso coffee
SITXFSA005 - Use hygienic practices for food safety

Entrance Requirements / Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, learners must be at least 16 years old at the course start date.

How to Enrol

Enrolment for our Brisbane Barista Coffee Master Class involves four simple steps:

• Choose a date from the course timetable.
• Fill in your personal details in the space provided.
• Pay for the course using a credit or debit card.
• Wait for an email confirming your booking and complete the full enrolment form. This form must be completed before your course starts.