This exciting course is about putting your business hat on and learning how to develop new food products or services for today's market. Build on your Level 5 cooking or baking knowledge and learn the process of taking your food dream from concept to reality, along with a range of core management skills.<br>Learn invaluable business strategy skills and the latest food industry trends as you research, develop and design a new food product or service - pitching it, testing it and tweaking it to get it ready for market. <br><br>You will be busy cooking, developing menus, styling food, learning how to photograph the food and creating a blog to showcase it all as you learn about customer engagement and marketing strategy.<br><br>We'll also each you about core management skills, duties and responsibilities in the food industry, including finance, operations, sales and marketing. <br><br>The course includes a 20 week internship, where you'll put your new business and management knowledge to the test in a commercial culinary business - making you highly employable or ready to go out on your own.