MSc in Culinary Business Strategy
Course Overview
The MSc in Culinary Business Strategy is a UK Level 7 research-informed Master's running one year full-time or two years part-time across on-campus, online and distance routes. It is aligned with Craft Guild of Chefs, Institute of Hospitality, UKHospitality and Chartered Management Institute (CMI) reference practice, and sits inside LSCAHM's Tourism, Events & Food Business department.
By graduation you can set strategy for a culinary business, model portfolio-level revenue and cost decisions, direct a brand programme and close a dissertation or sponsor consulting project for a restaurant group, catering operator or food business.
Key Features
- One-year full-time or two-year part-time UK Level 7 MSc.
- Culinary strategy modules aligned with Institute of Hospitality practice.
- Portfolio finance modelling with UKHospitality reference material.
- Brand and consumer-behaviour modules for food businesses.
- Sponsor consulting project for a live culinary or food business client.
- Research methods for practitioner-focused culinary business dissertations.
- Named supervisor from senior culinary business practice.
What You Will Learn
- Set and defend a strategy for a restaurant group or food business.
- Model portfolio revenue, cost and capital allocation decisions.
- Direct brand, consumer and reputation programmes.
- Lead culture change across culinary and operating teams.
- Handle expansion, franchise and licensing strategy decisions.
- Sponsor a repositioning or turnaround programme.
- Complete a research-informed culinary business dissertation.
- Present strategic recommendations at board or ownership level.
Who This Course Is For
- Senior chefs and culinary business owners moving into strategic leadership.
- Restaurant group operators formalising strategic practice.
- Food business founders scaling into multi-site or multi-channel operation.
- Consultants advising culinary and food businesses.
Career Pathways
- Head of Strategy (Restaurant Group)
- Food Business Analyst
- F&B Business Development Manager
- Culinary Entrepreneur
- Hospitality Business Consultant
- Innovation Manager (Food Business)
- Group Operations Manager
- Sustainability Lead (Food Business)
The LSCAHM careers service runs at least one industry-careers day each academic year with London restaurant groups, food brands and strategy consultancies, and refreshes culinary business content against Craft Guild of Chefs and Institute of Hospitality 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 culinary or food business leadership experience are considered on portfolio.
- One academic and one professional reference.
- A 500-word research proposal or professional practice statement on culinary business strategy.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London. LSCAHM reads culinary business as an interlocking system of kitchen, brand, hospitality and food business, so MSc students learn to work across all four.
Central London places Michelin-starred restaurant groups, food brands, the Craft Guild of Chefs and the Institute of Hospitality within a short tube ride of every classroom.
Apply for MSc in Culinary Business Strategy
Enrol on an LSCAHM Master's programme with dissertation, capstone or sponsor project supervised by practising chefs, restaurateurs and industry executives. The MSc in Culinary Business Strategy is open now. Enrol Now.
