We have three programs at 
Blue Ridge Community and Technical college.
We have Food Service Retail 
Management, Culinary Arts, and Baking and Pastry.
All are great, wonderful pathways to 
experience within, within our college.
While I was in the Army I got a degree in Business 
so, I wanted to open up my own company.
I got tired of working for other people all my life 
and wanted to do something different
and I thought: catering. I love cooking, catering is fun.
It's challenging as well so, you get
a challenge. You get to enjoy cooking.
And I wanted just to be my own boss.
The Culinary program gives you that opportunity.
Currently working on opening my own
bakery in Winchester, Virginia.
I enjoy taking over the world one croissant at 
a time. It's always nice when, when they
look at you and go "Wow! This taste
just like I remember it being from France."
And that's because I learned it here at Blue Ridge.
We offer a very affordable tuition and 
we have a very low student-to-teacher ratio.
And we also offer one-of-a-kind experience 
in our Bruin Cafes where students can
interact with customers and they can
actually work and service customers with
food products and with good customer 
interaction on a daily basis.
I selected the Culinary program because I took an
average of all the Culinary Art programs around
and found that this one was the most 
affordable and I found that I had
the most hands-on experience here.
We start with the teachers.
They have decades of experience behind 
them, they know what they're doing.
Each teacher brings a different skill set 
to the table and it's those skills that's
which they help us to learn.
Blue Ridge is the premier Culinary Academy 
within the Four-state Region.
