Fast Track Training: Culinary Training that Launches Careers
Supported By The Snapchef Foundation
The Snapchef Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c3) organization, believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to build a fulfilling culinary career. It provides aspiring professionals with tuition-free or subsidized training, mentorship, and job placement services.
Knife Skills & Life Skills = A Better Future
New to the foodservice industry? No problem. Our one-week, FastTrack Culinary Training program is a proven model to jumpstart your culinary career. The best part? You’ll earn while you learn; we build your work schedule around your training time.
In just 20 hours, you’ll gain all the skills you need to begin work in a commercial kitchen. You’ll learn basic food and kitchen safety, how to handle and maintain a knife, how to identify kitchen equipment and ingredients, dry and moist heat cooking methods, and much more. Most training is done virtually, along with an optional (live) Q&A with a professional chef. Qualified applicants will receive the training for free (or at a reduced fee), along with a starter kit that includes a uniform and accessories.
Ready to Get Started? It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3!
Step 1
APLICARStep 1: Apply
Meet with your local office and they will assist you with applying directly through our Aplicación SNAP.
Step 2
TrainStep 2: Train
If training is needed after your assessment, you’ll be enrolled in a snap! Training is provided through The Snapchef Foundation.
What’s Cookin’
Massachusetts State Representatives Carlos Gonzalez and Angelo Puppolo Cook up Change at Snapchef
Springfield-Snapchef CEO Todd Snopkowski welcomed Massachusetts Representatives Gonzalez and Puppolo to its Springfield culinary training center in December. The Representatives had an opportunity to meet our chefs and learn about the Snapchef Fast Track Culinary program. Snapchef would like to thank Rep. Gonzalez and Rep. Puppolo for their efforts to support workforce development in Massachusetts.
Via MassLive: Snapchef trains, transports and employs chefs while filling needs of Massachusetts kitchens
If chicken soup cures everything, the chicken soup simmering at Snapchef on Worthington Street in Springfield just might be part of the cure for Springfield's persistent workforce problems.
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