Welcome to The Foodservice Institute Culinary Academy

Rouxbe Online Culinary School is honored to partner with The Foodservice Institute to support ongoing development and culinary training. The program focuses on foundational culinary techniques, methods of cooking that form the basis of cuisines around the world. Rouxbe facilitates training and similar professional development programs around the world. To date, over 15,000 working cooks have used similar Rouxbe programs to develop and hone their culinary skills.

Online Course Highlights

Culinary Foundations Level 1
  • Foundational cook training with focus on fundamentals

  • 10 Units, 25 lessons and 160 learning tasks

  • Over 80 instructional videos

  • Over 75 recipes that reinforce key techniques and concepts

Culinary Foundations Level 2
  • 16 Units, 45 lessons and over 230 learning tasks

  • Over 100 instructional videos

  • Over 100 recipes that reinforce key techniques

  • Engaging learning activities and assignments

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Rouxbe Culinary School

  • Founded in 2005
  • 843,800 Students
  • 180 Countries
  • 630 High Schools
  • 17 Languages
Learning Path You Can Trust

Rouxbe courses offer an instructor-guided path that is completed entirely online, at your own pace. Whether you are looking to learn new cooking techniques, increase your confidence, expand your repertoire, or change your health, Rouxbe's learning path will help you reach your goals.

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Instructional Videos

Our learning videos are close-up featuring the cooking technique instruction you need to be successful in the kitchen. Our content includes a variety of video types such as technique focused lessons, step-by-step video recipes, and instructional videos on other topics.

Interactive Learning

Students will watch video, read text, interact with visual learning assignments, upload and share photos, interact with the learning community, submit instructor-graded assignments, attend live events with Rouxbe instructors, and even complete fun interactive quizzes.

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Your Certificate of Achievement Awaits You!

Designed and taught by leading chef educators, this program delivers detailed video instruction in the foundations of cooking. Certification through Rouxbe is a mark of achievement and an important part of showing your commitment to a professional path.

Recognized by the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation as an Approved Program.

You will earn 110.0 CEHs from the ACF (American Culinary Federation) upon successful completion of:

  • Culinary Foundations Level 1
  • Culinary Foundations Level 2
  • Recognized by the World Association of Chefs Societies as a Approved Quality Culinary Training

    Graduates from the Rouxbe Culinary Program, may apply using the fast track route for World Association of Chefs Societies Professional Cook (Commis Chef) or Professional Chef de Partie Certification.