MBA in Restaurant and Culinary Business Management
Course Overview
The MBA in Restaurant and Culinary Business Management is a UK Level 7 postgraduate degree running one year full-time or two years part-time on-campus, online or by distance learning. It is aligned with Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality, Chartered Management Institute and Craft Guild of Chefs themes, and written for senior restaurant and culinary business leaders targeting board-level roles.
By graduation, students hold an executive-level strategy portfolio, a supervised sponsor consulting project for a restaurant or culinary business, and evidence of leading investment, growth and reorganisation decisions across multi-outlet contexts.
Key Features
- Level 7 curriculum benchmarked against Chartered Management Institute and Institute of Hospitality senior themes.
- Executive modules across restaurant finance, culinary business strategy, leadership and investment.
- Supervised sponsor consulting project or capstone dissertation.
- Named research supervisor drawn from senior restaurant and culinary executive practice.
- Access to UKHospitality and Craft Guild of Chefs senior pathways.
- Distance and online routes designed for working senior operators.
- Applied briefs from London restaurant groups and food business investors.
What You Will Learn
- Lead executive-level restaurant and culinary business strategy across multi-outlet contexts.
- Read and defend investment cases to investors, boards and lenders.
- Design reorganisation, expansion and turnaround plans for restaurant businesses.
- Manage senior chef and management teams through change.
- Read and act on group-level P&L, cash flow and balance sheet decisions.
- Coordinate M&A, franchise and licensing conversations at executive level.
- Present sponsor consulting reports to hospitality clients and asset owners.
- Manage a full postgraduate research or consulting project to submission standard.
Who This Course Is For
- Senior restaurant and culinary business leaders targeting board-level roles.
- Multi-outlet operators moving into group and area director positions.
- Chef-founders scaling their restaurant businesses.
- Investors and asset managers moving into hospitality operating leadership.
- International senior practitioners seeking a UK Level 7 MBA credential.
Career Pathways
- Restaurant Group Managing Director
- Culinary Business Executive Director
- Multi-unit Manager
- Regional Hospitality Manager
- Hospitality Business Consultant
- Culinary Entrepreneur
- Group Operations Manager
The LSCAHM careers service connects MBA postgraduates with restaurant groups, culinary investors, executive search firms and hospitality consultancies across London, and runs at least one industry-careers day each year focused on executive-level roles.
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 restaurant, culinary or hospitality management experience are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement.
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. Executive restaurant and culinary business is read alongside operations and culinary curricula, so MBA candidates learn to lead businesses their operating teams can actually run at consistent standard.
Central London places restaurant groups, hospitality investors and executive practitioners within a short tube ride of every classroom, giving live executive briefs a strong regional anchor across all three study modes.
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