'The Sector Is on a Talent Hunt' held for the second time; awards rain down on the chefs of the future...

At the 2nd Inter-Tourism Vocational High School Cooking Competition, organized by TÜROB in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education and Gastronometro under the slogan 'The Sector Is on a Talent Hunt,' Küçükçekmece İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School came in first.

At the 2nd Inter-Tourism Vocational High School Cooking Competition, organized by the Association of Turkish Hoteliers (TÜROB) in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education and Gastronometro, the awards found their owners. In the competition held at Gastronometro under the slogan 'The Sector Is on a Talent Hunt,' students from 12 schools competed fiercely, and Küçükçekmece İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School breasted the tape. Selimpaşa İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School came second, and Kadıköy Mualla Selcanoğlu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School came third.

Vocational high schools are the source for the sector

Speaking at the award ceremony, TÜROB President Timur Bayındır stated that, through projects of this kind, they had set as their main goal meeting the tourism and hotel sector's need for qualified personnel and increasing the employment opportunities of vocational high school graduates in the field in which they were trained. He noted that the competition, held for the second time this year, would in the coming years expand to cover all of Türkiye and thus make a major contribution to achieving this goal. Bayındır said: "We will do everything in our power to make vocational high schools the main source of employment for our sector. As the accommodation sector, we continue to seek out all the qualified employees graduating from tourism vocational high schools."

Vocational high schools are the source for the sector

Deniz Alkaç, Purchasing Director and Board Member of Metro Türkiye, which brought to life Gastronometro, Türkiye's first gastronomy discovery platform, underlined their satisfaction with this cooperation and said: "At Gastronometro, in line with Metro Türkiye's strategy, we aim to preserve Turkish cuisine and its values, which possess one of the world's most deep-rooted culinary cultures. To this end, we see this project, which we are carrying out in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education and TÜROB, as a step toward the future. It is a source of pride to bring our young chefs together with local ingredients; to help them get to know products with geographical indications such as Kars Kaşarı cheese, Aydın figs and Taşköprü garlic, and to use them in the menus they prepare. Because we know that it is our young chefs who will carry Turkish cuisine into the future, and these very special ingredients, meeting their skillful touches and innovative perspectives, will become the most precious part of modern Turkish cuisine."

10 thousand TL and a university scholarship

Meanwhile, Küçükçekmece İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, which came first in the competition, won the 10 thousand TL prize and also earned the Özyeğin University Hotel Management Department 2019 Summer School Full Scholarship Award. Second-place Selimpaşa İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School was rewarded with a 6 thousand TL gift voucher, and third-place Kadıköy Mualla Selcanoğlu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School with a 4 thousand TL gift voucher. The top three schools also received a 'Pirge Chef's Knife' gift from Gastronometro. Sultangazi Selahaddin Eyyubi Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School received the 'hygiene award,' while all participating schools were additionally given a package of hygiene products worth 3,500 TL each from Ecolab.

SCHOOLS THAT TOOK PART IN THE COMPETITION

1 - Asım Kibar Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

2 - Beyoğlu Katip Mustafa Çelebi Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

3 - Etiler Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

4 - Kadıköy Mualla Selcanoğlu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

5 - Kumburgaz Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

6 - Küçükçekmece IMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

7 - Mehmet İhsan Mermerci Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

8 - Sarıyer Vehbi Koç Vakfı Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

9 - Selahaddin Eyyubi Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

10 - Selimpaşa İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

11 - Şile Borsa İstanbul Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

12 - Şişli Kervansaray Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School