PROSPECTUS

MCP has been offering professional courses in partnership with colleges, universities, and industry to adult students seeking an affordable careers; first in the medical field, and now in the food industry since 2004. Our timeless appeal lies in our modernistic and unique approach and dedication to offering a comprehensive culinary education, whether members of your community are embarking on a 5 month professional diploma or attending our four-week home cook certificate course. Our focus on teaching modernistic cooking skills and techniques utilizing a flipped classroom approach, along with highly targeted technological partnerships with highly recognized and respected culinary training companies has established us as a leading cooking school partner; we aim to provide our collegiate partners with an immense toolbox of educational assets, allowing them to develop prospective students into individual, confident and creative professional chefs and cooks.

We hope to welcome your institution at MCP school of Food and Wine, to guide your efforts into training community members to learn a skill for life.

Welcome to Modern Culinary Partners

Julian L. Milian CEO, /Founder Modern Culinary Partners (MCP)

INTRODUCTION & CONTENTS

MCP was established in 2002 as Medical Curriculum Partners to provide condensed allied health career training in partnership with colleges and universities.

Our 4 month courses produced 99% pass rates on national board examinations and an exceptional revenue generator for our collegiate partners, most who are still operating the programs successfully utilizing our old business model. In 2008 we revamped our educational business model and sold Medical Curriculum Partners to a large private equity firm. We were contracted by the University of Florida College of Pharmacy Professional School of Continuing Education to pioneer and implement a blended, video-& classroom-integrated curriculum in all of their six campus locations. From curriculum design video production, editing, and learning management system integration, to program launch and marketing, we took the lead. In less than a year after launch, the program produced a little over $1 million in sales.

Since 2012, we have been arduously working on developing a prestigious Culinary Arts program. For two years, our efforts have been focused on developing a unique and comprehensive curriculum based on the flipped classroom approach; integrating competencies for in-class and online learning utilizing hands on instruction, comprehensive brand-able marketing plans for colleges to use to enroll students, a plan to recruit affiliation agreements on behalf of our college partners for externships, job placement for partner school graduates, commercial training kitchen facilities contracts and partnerships, and a host of other services for which our years of experience has allowed us to overcome obstacles to put together a revenue-generating package for easy college partner

Our Long History of Successful Collegiate Partnerships

We extended our capabilities by going through months of negotiations and acceptance with world-recognized and respected culinary and artistic based companies to align and form strong partnerships with. The learning platforms our partners have produced utilize proprietary technology to deliver education through professionally produced cooking videos,and interactive assessments. They place a value on MCP’s business model and saw an excellent fit. Most of our partner companies’ CEOs and VPs and their staff are highly technology entrepreneurial and education-minded and come from top positions at the world’s top culinary schools.

The curriculum and courses encompass both a professional training 5 month program for career preparation as a chef and short courses for amateurs and enthusiasts. The School provides a blended learning model and includes comprehensive theoretical and practical teaching through live classroom and platform technologies. Graduates of the professional course qualify to enter the highly regraded food and wine industry and launch a career with an esteemed qualification and certificates of completion from a recognized university and from the prestigious Rouxbe Cooking School; a globally recognized and respected culinary online learning platform. While there is an emphasis on classical cooking techniques and methods, the school also ensures students are knowledgeable about current cooking trends and techniques with a fresh modern approach.

Our experienced chefs are carefully selected and approved by MCP and its corporate partners and trained to deliver and run a disciplined, hard-working class with an excellent student staff ratio. This and the flipped classroom model enables instructors we select for the college partner to focus on the individual needs of the students.

With MCP’s and corporate partner’s close links with some of the country’s top restaurants, food magazines and food businesses, students benefit from excellent internship opportunities as well as exciting job opportunities with our placement assistance service. Download our Professional Courses syllabus from our website on the Prospectus Page for detailed course information.

Recreational courses, both short (3.5 hours) and evening courses (3-4 weeks) can be run throughout the year for interested enthusiasts of all ages, as well as one day workshops on weekdays and Saturdays.

CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

Kitchen Training Hours - 140Online Learning Hours - 200Externship Hours - 160Practical Assignment Hours - 60 HoursOn-on-One Online Instructor Hours - 40 HoursTotal Contact Hours - 600 Hours

Professional Course

Affordable and renowned hands-on training under the watchful eye of a carefully selected and trained chef assures complete mastery of core culinary skills for students.

Compare our program costs to the average tuition rate of $40,000 to $80,000+ of comparable top-quality and prestigious cooking schools!

Tuition - $5,800Knives/Uniform/Cookwares - $500College Revenue Share- 72%Length - 5 monthsMeets - 2 evenings per week for 3.5 hoursTuition Assistance - YesTypes - Tuition Loans, WIA, Voc. Rehab, VA

Training Facilities

TRAINING FACILITIES & TEAM

If your school does not have any existing commercial kitchen training facilities, it’s not a problem. We have national contracts with existing culinary training kitchens in various major cities. Students may be required to drive up to 20 minutes twice a week for hands on kitchen training.

We have standard requirements that all our kitchen providers must meet in order to secure a contract with us.

The kitchens we select are all equipped with gas ovens and stoves of the same design and high standard employed by most professional restaurants and catering kitchens, giving students access to all the equipment needed to learn to cook professionally.

Most, but not all, will come with an additional demonstration kitchen, and if not, we make use of available space. All kitchens are fully air-conditioned and fitted with LCD screens and cameras enabling students to see the close-up details of each step of the dishes and techniques demonstrated by the chef instructors and guest lecturers.

One of our Texas Commercial Training Kitchens. This facility was recently constructed and everything was brand new. Our Kitchen selection team scours cities where we plan to partner with colleges for high-grade kitchens such as this on a regular basis.

Essential Home Chef Certificate in Practical Cooking

The Culinary Basics Cooking Series is delivered through flipped classroom video lectures and hands on training and is designed for the novice cook with little or no culinary experience. Starting with essential knife skills, Students will learn to be comfortable and confident in the kitchen.

Using easy-to-prepare recipes and basic cooking techniques, they’ll learn about the importance of advance preparation to save time and reduce stress in the kitchen.  When possible, ready-to-cook ingredients are used to make things easier. This class meets once per week over a 4-week

period. Students will be able to create delicious and varied Meals and Dinner Parties by the end of this Series. This course is designed to teach the fundamental skills needed to become a confident, efficient and resourceful home or catering cook. The course is open to anyone aged 18 and over.

The day is divided between practical cooking sessions and demonstrations. The dishes prepared are interesting yet uncomplicated, with a balance between classic techniques and modern recipes so that cooks build up an impressive and well-rounded repertoire.

Students learn practical advice for buying produce, healthy eating, cooking on a budget, matching food with wine and writing home and catering menus as well as food safety.

At the end of the course students undergo a practical assessment in groups and will also sit a written theory test.

Download our course syllabus for the 4-week Home Chef Certificate Course on our website.

Special Interest & Recreational

OTHER COURSES YOU CAN OFFERStudents must sign up for SI and REC. Courses on our Signup page which is

linked off the college website.

Students will learn how to produce professional looking food shots in this in-depth course. Over the course of three consecutive Saturdays (3-weeks), our food photographer instructor will students the technical know how to get the most out of their camera; covering exposure, composition, lighting and the best angles for shots and focus. They will learn how to style their shots and explore the use of props, food plating and post production resulting in a portfolio of images of a professional standard as well as one-week of the basics of Photoshop for Photographers.

This is a flipped classroom course requiring watching videos through our film production partner CreativeLive, as well as hands on in the classroom.

Food Photography

With our Food Photography Course, want students to move on as quickly as possible to creating those perfect pictures. Instead of paying and spending weeks on end learning the basics of Photoshop, our students have access to a complete Video Streaming Library of basic how-to Photoshop tips for photographers.

This course, presented along with skill-building assignments, will give students an in-depth understanding of the food writing profession.

Food writing is increasingly popular, and these days the chance to write about something you love is open to all, even if it’s not always for financial gain. There are plenty of good writers who know about food, but that what they fail to do is understand who their reader is, and where their market lies.

Whether someone wants to write a personal blog, a book or recipes, restaurant reviews, feature for magazines, or papers and websites, it is vital to understand your audience.

This is a six-week evening course is for those interested in the world of food journalism. The instructor and/or guest lecturers, will guide students through the language of food and travel journalism and restaurant reviewing. Students will also gain valuable insights into how to approach an editor as well as top tips on how to get published.

Food Writing Course

Whether you want to write a personal blog, a book or recipes or features for magazines, papers and websites it is vital to understand your audience. This is what I love to teach, how to best use your talents.”

This course teaches students to write fail safe recipes and develop their own style of recipe writing. This four part evening course with a highly experienced food writer takes the student through practical experiences where they will learn how to evolve their kitchen experiments and cooking notes into their own thoughtfully crafted recipes while learning top tips on how to get published.

RECIPE WRITING COURSE

How to write and create a food blog 3 sessionsLearn how the experts make their blogs stand out from the crowd.! The recipe for a successful food blog is as complex and delicately balanced as that for paté en croute, and demands an equally diverse set of skills. This comprehensive 3-weekend course features lessons from established masters of the art, offering a comprehensive education in all aspects of food blogging, from technical tips to promoting the finished product via social media.

In this seminar, students will discover how to find their 'foodie niche' and develop a unique voice. They’ll also learn how to promote and distinguish themselves in the blogosphere---and how to transform a hobby into a viable writing career.

Advanced Food Blogging 1 sessionBigger, better blogging. If you've already been blogging, but would like to see better results, then come to this class. Students will learn how to can get more traffic to their site and how to effectively promote themselves, secure ad sales dollars, receive products, and seize other valuable opportunities. Topics in social media are covered such as how networking and social media like Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, and more can help grow their blog audience.

Special Interest

How to Review Restaurants 1 sessionDo you wonder---no, dream---about what it would be like to review restaurants? Do you want to write a blog about your dining experiences, or sharpen your skills for an online reviewing site? In this class with a widely published food writer, students will learn how to write about their gastronomic experiences in a meaningful way, what is involved in professional reviewing, the logistics of reviewing, and the ethical and moral considerations of reviewing restaurants. They will learn the ins and outs of what exactly goes into a well-crafted review.

Menu Development & Consulting 1 sessionHow do you develop a menu from scratch? There are dozens of essential aesthetic, financial, thematic, and emotional components that go into this vital---and fun---process. This class, taught by an experienced chef will cover menu development from soup to nuts, with a focus on the elements that make your restaurant unique, profitable, and appealing.

- Overall Concept & Theme- Target Area & Location- Costing & Pricing- Menu Mix/Design Elements- Sustainability/Organics- Scheduling/Labor- Marketing & Promotion- Budget, Profit & Loss- Designing the Menu

Business Plans for Food Concepts 1 sessionThis workshop will focus on the basics of an effective business plan for any type of food concept---be it a restaurant, bakery, catering business, packaged food product, or food truck. Anyone serious about starting a food operation needs to have a serious business plan as their road map! They also need key advice on raising the funds necessary to begin the process. A business plan provides an edge to the entrepreneur in this highly competitive marketplace. We will cover a comprehensive range of topics, including:- Developing a winning food concept- Creating a unique selling point- The importance of the menu- How to choose a location or distribution strategy- How to analyze the marketplace- Developing an effective marketing plan, including social media- The critical financials- How to staff a strong management team

Don't even think about embarking on your culinary start-up adventure without first taking this informative, eye-opening class! 

Restaurant Road Map 1 sessionYou've come up with a great idea for a restaurant or food product—congratulations! Now you want to know what happens next. This four-hour course will answer that and many more questions before you even open the door of your storefront, kitchen, or food truck. In this class, you will identify and prioritize the steps necessary to get you started. This course will help aspiring restaurateurs avoid many of the common mistakes that can kill their dream. Some of the important topics covered include:- Establishing a Formal Business Structure- Selecting the Best Location for Your Concept- Developing Your Menu and Pricing Your Product- Licenses, Zoning and Community Regulations- Signing a Lease vs. Purchasing Property- Finding and Keeping the Best Employees- Developing Capital And Operating Budgets- Analyzing the Competition- Marketing and Social Media- Purchasing Equipment and Inventory- Coming to Grips with the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

We will guide you through the labyrinth of questions and requirements you'll encounter, putting you on the road to a successful food business. Be fully prepared before you start, and your new venture will be much more likely to succeed!

Modern Culinary Partners, LLC.710 Asp Avenue, Suite 3

Norman, OK 73069405-310-3664