MBA in Professional Culinary and Hospitality Practice
Course Overview
The MBA in Professional Culinary and Hospitality Practice is a UK Level 7 senior-track integrated Master's running one year full-time or two years part-time across on-campus, online and distance routes. It is aligned with Institute of Hospitality, Craft Guild of Chefs, UKHospitality, HOSPA and Chartered Management Institute (CMI) practice, and sits inside LSCAHM's Executive & Integrated Hospitality Studies department.
By graduation you can lead both a kitchen brigade and a hotel or restaurant operating team, present a unified operating strategy that respects craft and commercial reality, and close a sponsor consulting project for a hospitality group.
Key Features
- One-year full-time or two-year part-time UK Level 7 MBA.
- Kitchen leadership modules aligned with Craft Guild of Chefs practice.
- Hospitality strategy modules aligned with Institute of Hospitality guidance.
- Executive leadership taught to CMI competency standards.
- Sponsor consulting project for a hospitality operator.
- Cohort of practising chefs, hoteliers and operators.
- Named supervisor from integrated culinary and hospitality practice.
What You Will Learn
- Lead a kitchen brigade and hospitality operating team as one system.
- Set and defend an integrated culinary and hospitality strategy.
- Model P&L and portfolio KPI across kitchen, floor and back office.
- Direct people plans covering brigade and operations.
- Handle brand and guest experience across culinary and service.
- Sponsor a P&L turnaround or repositioning project.
- Present integrated strategy at board or ownership level.
- Complete an integrated dissertation or capstone.
Who This Course Is For
- Head chefs moving into operator and general manager roles.
- Hotel and restaurant general managers wanting culinary depth.
- Owner-operators leading combined kitchen and hospitality teams.
- Senior professionals leading integrated hospitality projects.
Career Pathways
- Culinary & Hospitality Integrator
- Executive Chef (Operator track)
- General Manager (Hotel/Restaurant)
- Group Operations Manager
- Innovation Manager (Hospitality)
- Multi-unit Manager
- Guest Experience Director
- Hospitality Programme Manager
The LSCAHM careers service runs at least one industry-careers day each academic year with London hotel groups, restaurant operators and executive search firms, and refreshes integrated culinary and hospitality content against Institute of Hospitality, Craft Guild of Chefs and UKHospitality guidance.
Entry Requirements
- A UK Bachelor's degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent international qualification in a relevant discipline.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- Applicants without a Bachelor's degree but with 5+ years of senior professional experience in culinary or hospitality leadership are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement on integrated culinary and hospitality leadership.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London. LSCAHM's Executive & Integrated Hospitality Studies department reads kitchen, floor and back office as one operating discipline.
Central London places Michelin-starred kitchens, luxury hotel groups, the Craft Guild of Chefs, the Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and HOSPA within a short tube ride of every classroom.
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