Certified Culinary Sales Professional Program (CCSP)

To be their most effective, the people on your culinary sales team need to be able to speak the same language as the chefs they interact with. That's the focus of CCSP.

Anyone who has been in sales knows that it's all about relationships. And your culinary salespeople can build strong ones with the chefs, chef-operators, and culinary purchasers they call on, once they have an experiential understanding of the professional kitchen. With the culinary sales certification they'll receive upon successfully completing CCSP, your salespeople will earn new respect from customers and enhance your company's reputation for delivering expert solutions.

Through hands-on cooking in the CIA kitchens, valuable trailing experiences, and distance learning, your sales team will become immersed in all things culinary. In addition to knife skills and cooking fundamentals, they'll also learn to find menu solutions, understand labor and sanitation issues, apply the right products to the customer's needs, and much more.

Upon successful completion of the program, participants will earn the Certified Culinary Sales Professional (C.C.S.P.) credential from the CIA.

CCSP is a custom culinary sales certification program offered only to organizations. To set up a program for your company, contact Lorrie Hafner at 845-451-1669 or l_hafner@culinary.edu.

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