The World has Opened up for William Brown
And it’ s thanks to the Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts( MICA), 529 Wellington Restaurant, and premier wine boutique, Banville & Jones Wine Co.
Brown was employed at these two Winnipeg establishments this past summer to fulfill the co-operative work education component of his two-year program in Hotel & Restaurant Management at the MICA, which is located at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon.
Brown certainly got an education in the hospitality industry.“ At 529 Wellington I learned a lot about professionalism, and Banville and Jones taught me about teamwork,” he says. He also learned a lot about wine, having had the privilege of working with seven of Manitoba’ s 14 certified sommeliers through the summer.
Both employers were delighted with the level of knowledge and professionalism that Brown brought with him to the job.“ William came in with a real passion for wine and I think that stems from the exposure in education, otherwise you just don’ t pick it up,” says Saralyn Mehta, assistant manager at Banville and Jones Wine Co.“ We would happily take another MICA student if William is any indication of the level of employee we are going to get.”
Christopher Sprague, Sommelier at 529 Wellington, was also impressed by Brown’ s grasp of hospitality, and says that quality educational programs at MICA are important to the industry.“ We are seeing the restaurant industry grow in Manitoba and we are finding it very difficult to find people, especially in the management field, so courses like this are becoming vital to the survival of our industry,” says Sprague.
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An innovative component of MICA’ s program is the annual viniculture field school trip to Niagara’ s vineyards. Here students learn first hand about the business of wine.
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