BA in Food Business and Entrepreneurship
Course Overview
The BA in Food Business and Entrepreneurship is a three-year UK Level 6 honours degree with part-time and accelerated routes, sitting inside LSCAHM's Executive & Integrated Hospitality Studies department. It is aligned with UKHospitality, Institute of Hospitality and Chartered Management Institute standards, and gives founders and operators the applied discipline to launch, run and scale food businesses in the United Kingdom.
By graduation, students are shaping food-business concepts and unit economics, structuring investor pitches, running early-stage operations, and completing a supervised placement plus final-year capstone written for a live food-business client.
Key Features
- Level 6 curriculum aligned with UKHospitality, Institute of Hospitality and CMI standards.
- Year-two placement across café, restaurant, D2C food or investor environments.
- Applied modules on concept design, unit economics and food-business finance.
- Live pitch sessions to founders, operators and investors in central London.
- Guest lectures from independent food-business founders and multi-unit operators.
- Final-year dissertation or venture capstone supervised by industry-active tutors.
What You Will Learn
- Design a food-business concept from cuisine positioning to operating model.
- Build unit economics across food cost, labour, rent and overheads.
- Structure funding across bank debt, angel, VC and grant sources.
- Design marketing across local, digital, PR and community channels.
- Apply UK food safety, licensing, employment and tax frameworks.
- Model scaling paths across multi-unit, franchise and D2C routes.
- Read a food-business P&L and cash-flow statement.
- Deliver a venture capstone to a live food-business brief.
Who This Course Is For
- School leavers targeting a founder-track food-business degree.
- Working chefs and operators preparing to launch their own venture.
- Career changers moving from finance, consulting or marketing into food business.
- International applicants pursuing a UK BA in food business and entrepreneurship.
Career Pathways
- Food Business Owner
- Café Owner
- Restaurant Operator
- F&B Business Development Manager
- Culinary Entrepreneur
- Franchise Development Manager
- Food Business Analyst
The LSCAHM careers service partners with independent London operators, food-business investors, incubators and multi-unit food businesses to open placement year and graduate roles.
Entry Requirements
- A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Two academic references and a personal statement.
- International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSCAHM admissions.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts. LSCAHM reads culinary arts, hospitality management, tourism, events and food business as interlocking disciplines, which is exactly how a food-business founder has to think.
Central London places food-business investors, independent operators, UKHospitality and the Institute of Hospitality within a short tube ride of every classroom, and three parallel study modes let founders keep trading while completing the BA.
Apply for BA in Food Business and Entrepreneurship
Apply for the LSCAHM Bachelor's programme in Food Business and Entrepreneurship. Industry placement is included, admissions responds within one working day, and your programme tutor is confirmed before induction. Enrol Now
