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SKiLLS & tRaDe

RESTAURANTS’
RECRUITING
DRIVE
As a skill shortage looms in the industry a
passion for working with food and helping people
opened the door to one of Auckland’s finest
restaurants for Jared Svedlund. By steve hart
The 23-YeAr-old is a senior waiter at The
french Café, and come november he will
have been working at the fine dining restaurant for five years.
“i took hospitality at lynfield College
and it was my favourite class by far,” says
Jared. “i wasn’t a very good cook though,
so i went to the restaurant Association and
asked about apprenticeships.”
They sent him to Creghan Molloy-Wright,
co-owner of The french Café, who was
looking to take on an apprentice – she took
one look at Jared and said “oui!”.
This year he completed a two and-a-halfyear food & beverage course of on-the-job
training and block-release study at MiT. he
is disappointed the course is not currently
available.
“having the qualification shows restaurant managers that i can do silver service,
and that i