BA in Restaurant Culinary Management
Course Overview
The BA in Restaurant Culinary Management is a UK Level 6 honours degree running three years full-time with part-time and accelerated routes. It is aligned with Craft Guild of Chefs, Institute of Hospitality and UKHospitality restaurant-operations practice, and combines kitchen technique with the people leadership, cost control and brand thinking needed to lead a modern restaurant.
By graduation you have completed a year-two industry placement in a London restaurant, written and costed live menus, run brigade briefings, produced a final-year capstone on a restaurant concept and can present a P&L, a menu strategy and a service model to a founder or operator.
Key Features
- Three-year UK honours degree with a year-two restaurant placement.
- Kitchen technique aligned with Craft Guild of Chefs standards through every year.
- Restaurant P&L work benchmarked against UKHospitality and HOSPA reference materials.
- People leadership modules aligned with Institute of Hospitality guidance.
- Live menu briefs from London restaurant groups and independent operators.
- Capstone restaurant-concept project supervised by a practising restaurateur.
- Named programme-tutor support across all three years.
What You Will Learn
- Cook and lead across sections in a restaurant service to a written menu.
- Write costed menus that respect kitchen capacity, brigade skill mix and margin targets.
- Read and act on a restaurant weekly P&L, GP report and labour cost breakdown.
- Brief and manage a small brigade through mise en place, service and debrief.
- Handle guest journey, table turns and front-of-house coordination.
- Apply HACCP, allergen and food safety practice consistent with UK regulation.
- Build supplier relationships and negotiate purchase terms.
- Present a fully worked restaurant concept, menu and operating plan.
Who This Course Is For
- School leavers targeting a restaurant leadership career in the UK.
- Working chefs stepping up to management or ownership.
- Career changers with strong front-of-house experience moving into restaurant leadership.
- International applicants seeking a UK honours degree in restaurant management.
Career Pathways
- Restaurant Manager
- Head Chef
- Sous Chef
- Kitchen Manager
- Food & Beverage Manager (Restaurants)
- Culinary Entrepreneur
- Menu Development Consultant
- Executive Chef (Career track)
The LSCAHM careers service runs at least one industry-careers day each academic year with London restaurant groups, independent chef-owners and hotel restaurants, and refreshes restaurant curriculum content against Institute of Hospitality and Craft Guild of Chefs guidance.
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. Kitchen practicals, live service shifts and menu briefs run through every year of the BA, and LSCAHM reads culinary arts, hospitality management and food business as interlocking disciplines.
Central London places Michelin-starred restaurants, luxury hotel groups, the Craft Guild of Chefs and the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts within a short tube ride of every classroom. The included year-two placement anchors the degree in real UK restaurant practice.
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