'Culinary arts school' boasting its own cafe and takeaway could open at Rochdale business park
03.05.2022 - 20:05
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A ‘culinary arts school’ boasting its own cafe and takeaway could set up shop on a Rochdale industrial estate. Proposals to convert a former NHS warehouse at Sherwood Business Park, in Castleton, have been submitted to the council by Haowei Property Ltd.
More recently used as a storage facility for food and kitchenware supplies, it spans 26 metres and stands at nearly eight metres in height. The applicant believes the spacious two-storey building - at the entrance to the Queensway business park - has unrealised potential.
A planning document submitted to the local authority reads: “ The applicant wishes to develop this underused warehouse as a culinary arts school with a takeaway café to give the students real life training in the hospitality sector, so diversifying the opportunities of the workforce in the surrounding area.”
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The cafe/takeaway is proposed to open six days a week, with pupils running it under the supervision of a teaching chef from Tuesday to Thursday, while dedicated staff would oversee it from Friday to Sunday. The teaching lab is designed to accommodate 20-42 students.
Papers add: “These frontline learners will be in charge of running, inventorying and cleaning as if they were the owners of the café. The food will be prepared and cooked and served by these students who will also prepare the food in the service kitchen rather than teaching kitchen.
“All the students will take turns of being in charge of the café and takeaway once their competence and willingness has been approved by the teaching chefs.”
Customers would pay less than average price for dishes created by the student chefs
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