Hospitality

Hawker Hall

On Harmony Day this year, Hawker Hall came to life at Pacific Lutheran College. The Year 10 Hospitality students designed street food dishes that could be sold to staff and peers alike during morning tea. The dishes included crispy crumbed calamari, spicy chicken sliders, bangin’ buffalo wings, crispy churros with chocolate sauce and mean street waffles. In groups, students embraced the task and worked together to achieve a fabulous end result of cooking, presenting and selling their dishes in a shop front scenario. Well done to our Year 10 Hospitality students!

Year 12 Excursion

This term, our Year 12 Hospitality students visited Mooloolah Meats Butcher and Mooloolah Bakery for an insight into how these particular businesses work. Jacob Hume, a past student who acquired an apprentice with Mooloolah Meats, demonstrated his skills and highlighted the different cuts of meat and suggested cooking styles for each. This was a culminating experience allowing students to truly see farm to feast procedures on a commercial scale. Students also learnt about small business operation and the importance of hygiene in the workplace.

Students then ventured on to the bakery where they were shown how to make multiple flavours of pies from the meat that was supplied by the butcher. All students tasted the savoury and sweet pastries and thoroughly enjoyed the day out. In our post excursion discussion, we talked extensively about running a food business, including front and back of house operations. Thank you to Dean and Steve for allowing our students to experience this!

Mrs Colleen Beattie, Head of Food Technology and Hospitality