School tours trendy Norwood restaurants
Restaurants in Norwood bring out their quality service specs for visiting learners.
Norwood restaurants welcomed St Martin’s School learners for the school’s gastronomy tour on July 27.
The school’s business studies teacher, Ana Moore said they had chosen Norwood because it was trendy, authentic and filled with various cultures.
She said the Rosettenville-based school had grades 8 to 12 and ‘instead of Grade 8 learners writing exams in July like the rest of the school, we have a personalised learning programme for them’.
“Every year it’s different and this year we decided to do a pop-up restaurant because there is quite a lot of interest in the food industry.”
She explained that the programme entailed eight days of personalised learning and day three was the outing day.
“So, we take a tour around various restaurants which are different and bring the kids so they can sit down, listen to the owner, get a feel for the restaurant, taste the food and ask questions. This is because in eight days’ time they have to produce their own restaurant for their parents.”
Moore explained a restaurant was made up of the front of the house, kitchen and marketing, and learners decided which group they want to be in.
“It’s a different learning experience with learners taking learning into their own hands which is awesome…. they have their ideas of how they will transform a classroom into a restaurant and then cook, serve and sell.”
Nick Vagionakis of Pizzaghetti told the learners it was important to note that quality and service went together in the food and beverage industry. He said, “Waiters receive wages every month but most of their money comes from tips and they will not receive them if they don’t offer quality service. Restaurants that are run professionally pay their waiters tips at the end of every shift.”
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