Canadian Armed Forces Cook Chief Warrant Officer Jay

Canadian Armed Forces Cook Chief Warrant Officer Jay J Rached Canadian Armed Forces / Materiel J 4 Director Food Services 18 November, 2014

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. Chef Gordon Ramsay

Successes • Revised Cook Entry Standards (ES) are now approved and posted on the DPGR website as well as updated at the Recruiting Centers. • QL 3 Part I & II removed and a Pre-QL 5 A OJT introduced. • National Standardized Cycle Menu (NSCM), rolled out 03 Nov 2014. • Food Service Officer training will now be conducted as a formal course in Borden vice peer to peer training that was provided in the past.

Training All of our training is delivered at the CFLTC in Borden. Our training is developed and taught by military Cooks and covers all aspects of the culinary arts, from basic cookery techniques to food service management of large and small dining facilities. Throughout our careers we will spend approximately 174 days training. QL 3 – Apprentice Cook – 96 training days QL 5 – Journeyman Cook – 40 training days QL 6 A – Cook Supervisor – 25 training days Cook Manager (formerly QL 7) – 13. 5 training days

Ongoing Issues • The Cook Occupation is currently RED, recruiting is ongoing and we are getting closer to our SIP targets but there is no guarantee that the intake numbers will be met. This could negatively cook training at all levels. • CDA initiative on recruiting semi-skilled candidates directly from Community Colleges. (Jan – Mar 2015) • Occupational Analysis (OA): due to commence in Sep 2015.