ChefsGO Warming Up for August Start

After a few Covid-19 related starts and stops during 2020, ChefsGO is delighted to announce full resumption of the culinary certification and paid mentorship program beginning August 2, 2021 and a new blog, starting today. The popular Thomas Nelson Community College Workforce Development program combines 12 weeks of classroom and kitchen training with 12 weeks of paid mentorships with some of Williamsburg's best chefs in kitchens including Waypoint Seafood & Grill, Windsor Meade, Williamsburg Landing, and Two Rivers Country Club.

This year, our students will be working in a new, shiny lab kitchen (details to be announced later) and working with the biggest pool of chefs yet. This allows the program to do what it was intended to do when founded by Robin Carson, provide outstanding culinary training to students that will allow them to attain jobs and staff the needs of area chefs, kitchens, and restaurants; to hit the ground running, knives down, in a field that has more demand than ever in a post-pandemic world. This fall, ChefsGO will include several students returning from the class of 2020 (cut short due to the pandemic), as well as a whole new set of students hungry to learn classic technique from sauces to to seafood, and everything in-between.

Future blog posts will detail what ChefsGO students and chefs are cooking up to in the kitchen and in the classroom, ChefsGO news, Williamsburg restaurant news, and all kinds of appetizing tidbits to keep you satisfied. For now, feel free to check out to the link about ChefsGO and peruse an application, which we'll be accepting through May 28, 2021. https://tncc.edu/programs/chefsgo-10-workforce-credential If you have story ideas or questions about ChefsGO, please forward them to Lead Instructor/Adjunct Professor Holly Herrick at herrickh@vpcc.edu