Course in restaurant master IHK

Overview

Being the perfect host – this aspiration is in your blood. As a restaurant manager IHK, you ensure that your guests feel completely at ease, are competently advised and served, and at the same time keep an eye on economic aspects.

You are a specialist and manager and work responsibly in all matters relating to the planning, manufacture and marketing of gastronomic products. With your masterly knowledge, you convince both in personnel management in the service area and in serving guests.

perspectives

Poppe & Neumann graduates of the Restaurantmeister IHK course work worldwide as

• Manager of successful top restaurants
• Owners of independently run businesses
• Consultants, coaches, management consultants
• Sales manager in the industry
• Specialist teachers at vocational schools or at private or public educational institutions

or study because they have acquired the university entrance qualification with the master craftsman certificate or successfully run their own businesses. The master craftsman's certificate is and remains - nationally and internationally - the central career building block for your professional future in a management/management position in the hotel and restaurant trade, in communal catering, in catering, in industry and is - last but not least - the solid basis for a successful self-employment.

The course is aimed at

Restaurant specialists with completed vocational training, career changers, semi-skilled and unskilled employees and working family members with at least 5 ½ years of professional experience in service

course content

The state-tested and approved course for restaurant manager IHK is characterized by the mature study documents oriented to professional practice. Like all Poppe & Neumann distance learning courses, the course Restaurantmeister IHK is designed in such a way that professional activity and further training can be optimally combined.

The basis for the course content is the "Regulation on the examination for the recognized qualification of certified restaurant master" of the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

If you have not yet taken the trainer aptitude test, it is part of your preparation for the restaurant master test and one of the admission requirements.

Trainer aptitude test IHK (AdA)

The preparation for the IHK trainer aptitude test covers the first part of the master craftsman’s examination “vocational and work-pedagogical qualifications” and consists of seven learning units (lessons):

introductory lesson Field of action: Check training requirements and plan training Field of action: Prepare training and assist in hiring trainees Field of action: carry out training I Field of action: carry out training II Field of action: Complete training Examination simulation Training of the trainers

final project

The preparation for the master restaurant examination consists of 16 lessons and a comprehensive accompanying book and deals - practically - with the following topics, according to the framework plan of the IHK Frankfurt am Main:

Business Qualifications

The part of the examination "Business-related qualifications" is divided into the following qualification areas:

• Economics and Business Administration
• accountancy
• law and taxes
• Management

In this context, the following can be checked:

• Economic fundamentals
• Operational functions and their interaction
• Business start-ups and corporate legal forms
• business combinations
• basic aspects of accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Cost and Performance Accounting
• Evaluation of the business figures
• planning calculation
• Legal context
• Tax regulations
• Business organization
• Human Resources Management
• human resource development

Action-specific qualifications

Qualification focus: “Looking after and advising guests”

• Create individual offers for food, drinks and gastronomic services, taking into account nutritional principles
• Develop and implement concepts for festivities and special events
• Mastering and applying methods of conversation and manners
• Offer food, drinks and services in a promotional manner

Qualification focus: "Leading and promoting employees"

• Determine quantitative and qualitative personnel requirements
• Create requirement profiles, job plans and job descriptions
• Select, deploy and motivate employees, taking into account their suitability and operational requirements
• Introduce employees to their area of responsibility, issue work orders and instructions and monitor their proper execution
• Planning and initiating personnel development measures for qualification and targeted motivation, taking into account operational needs and employee interests
• Assess employees' performance and behavior and issue qualified references

Qualification focus: "Planning, implementing and controlling processes"

• Develop and present concepts for food, drink and gastronomic services
• Plan, calculate and carry out promotional events and activities
• Develop company and workplace organization, also taking into account the possibilities of outsourcing
• Create work and time planning
• Record and calculate costs, form prices, create accounts
• Ensure occupational safety as well as hygiene and environmental protection measures

Qualification focus: "Procuring and maintaining products"

• Open up and use sources of supply
• Compare and evaluate offers
• Store goods appropriately
• Prepare and care for consumer goods appropriately for work
• Ensure product care, use energy economically
• Justify required investments

Qualification focus: "Entertaining guests"

• Preparing, preparing and serving food in accordance with contemporary rules and techniques
• Prepare and serve drinks professionally
• Preparation and preparation of restaurant and event rooms, taking into account the occasion and the food and drinks

Admission Requirements

Instructor's certificate (AdA) – if you don't already have one, you will complete this as part of your master's course at Poppe & Neumann

After successfully completing your vocational training, you will have at least 3 years of relevant professional experience at the time of the exam. That means: You can start distance learning just 6 months after your vocational training, since you will continue to work during your studies and therefore have the necessary professional practice by the time the exam is taken.

But even if you do not have a degree as a restaurant specialist, but have 8 years of professional experience at the time of the exam, you can do the restaurant master. This means that you can start distance learning with 5 ½ years of professional experience, which you will continue to work on during your studies and thus have the necessary professional experience at the time of the exam.

Duration of study and costs

Temporal outline

Distance learning (30 months, including AdA exam, 24 months without AdA exam)

In this phase of your distance learning, you will receive your teaching letters in monthly succession. The subject matter prepares you for the examination to become a restaurant master IHK.

Seminar 1 (trainer aptitude test 4 days)

After the successful completion of the first part of the distance learning course "Training the trainers", after evaluation and grading of the external control tasks, we invite you to a 4-day seminar and examination block.

This seminar has been led for many years by Christoph Ladewig, the owner and director of the Hotel Fernschule Poppe & Neumann (himself an examiner at the IHK Frankfurt am Main for many years).

We invite you to the training hotel of the Hotel Fernschule Poppe & Neumann and, of course, we have taken care that you are accommodated and fed reasonably for the four days.

The seminar and exam take place in the training hotel, ie you will first be intensively prepared for two days for the written IHK exam, which takes place on site.

After the written exam, the oral exam and the instruction will be practiced and on the fourth day you will take your exam in front of the IHK examination board, who has traveled to the training hotel.

Seminar 2 (5 days)

After successful completion of the entire distance learning course, after evaluation and grading of the external control tasks, we invite you to the first part of the examination intensification seminar (attendance phase).

In the 5-day block "Preparation for the written exam in business-related qualifications", you will be prepared in detail for the subsequent written exam in "Business-related qualifications" by our competent specialist lecturers - who have been successful experts from the industry for years. In the seminar, the contents of the written exam are dealt with intensively and in an exam-oriented manner.

You now have six weeks to deepen what you have learned and to get in the mood for the following seminar block.

Seminar 3 (5 days)

The third part of the presence phase serves to prepare – again under the direction of our lecturers – for the subsequent written exam “Action-specific qualifications” as well as the requirements of the practical and oral exam.

Six weeks later (the IHK needs this time to evaluate the written exams), all participants travel back to the practical and oral IHK exam. Thanks to perfect preparation and support, you will then hold your master craftsman’s certificate in your hands.

Of course, we will inform you in advance about accommodation and catering options during seminars and exams.

baseline

You can register at any time - the course starts on the 1st or 15th of each month.

tuition fee

If you take the course including the trainer aptitude test, the tuition fees are €149.00 per month (total costs €4,470.00).

Without a trainer aptitude test (because you have already taken it), the monthly tuition fees are €147.00 (total costs €3,528.00).

Normal period

The standard period of study for the course, including the trainer aptitude test, is 30 months. Without a trainer aptitude test, it is 24 months.

Of course you can - without additional costs - shorten or lengthen your distance learning course individually. It all depends on how much time you have to study and of course that you meet the admission requirements at the time of the exam.

funding and funding

Monthly payment

At Poppe & Neumann, you conveniently pay your tuition fees in monthly course installments.

save taxes

You can claim up to €4,000.00 annually for your further training at Poppe & Neumann as income-related expenses. After the end of the calendar year, you will receive a certificate from us for the annual wage tax adjustment.

education check

In order to counteract the impending shortage of skilled workers, many federal states have set up their own support programs using funds from the European Social Fund. As a recognized educational institution, you can benefit from this special subsidy for the costs of further education.

Poppe & Neumann - tradition, experience, success

In-service training - professional and tailored to the needs of the industry.

With now more than 120 years on the market the hotel Fernschule Poppe & Neumann is the oldest educational institution for the people in the hotel and catering industry, in the catering and restaurant chains.

More than 100,000 successful graduates and a growing subscriber traffic make the hotel Fernschule Poppe & Neumann for most participants educational institution in the industry.

With our certified and accredited distance learning programs, methodically and didactically optimal teaching material with absolute practical experience and our personal attention to create your training target for sure!

Our pass rates at the IHK exams are always well above average. The main reason is that we from the date of notification to the successful completion of the IHK examination really care about you.

The management team at Hotel Fernschule Poppe & Neumann has many years of experience. Respected lecturers (subject teachers and managers from the industry) are (classroom) for the high standards of audit-intensifying seminars.

"Grandfather, father and son have already made their training with the hotel Fernschule Poppe & Neumann - we wait for the grandchildren."