Truro and Penwith College have collaborated with an award-winning Cornish burger restaurant to inspire students to pursue a career in hospitality.
The students from Penair Secondary School were shown a demonstration by Hub Box’s Head of Food, Luke Taylor.
Luke shared his industry experiences, where he spoke of seasonality and the importance of supplier relationships.
He was joined by Tony Duce, Hospitality Course Co-ordinator at Truro and Penwith College, who spoke to the students about routes into hospitality, including apprenticeships and full-time course options.
The organisers, Truro and Penwith College and the ESF Project Hospitality Table Cornwall, plan school engagements with local employers to help inspire students to pursue a career in hospitality and demonstrate the progression and success these careers can achieve.
The students, guided by top tips from Hub Box on how to make a mouth-watering burger, made their own and were judged on their skills.
A kind gesture was then received by the school from Hospitality Table Cornwall, Truro and Penwith College, and Hub Box, who provided aprons to Penair School, with the hope that other hospitality businesses would be inspired to support local schools in Cornwall.
The aprons were well received by Penair School, and Leanne Sherwood, careers liaison at the school, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be working in partnership with Hospitality Table Cornwall and Hub Box to support our chefs of the future.
“Our students are so fortunate to be able to wear their new aprons provided by Hospitality Table Cornwall and Hub Box.
“They have benefited from inspiring talks and demonstrations and feel very professional in their new aprons.”
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