DI Internships

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Discovery Internships is your personal recruiter.
We use the application process to understand your internship and career interests. At the core, we help employers connect with young, motivated students such as yourself that are interested in working alongside professionals in exchange for gaining real work experience. Sometimes we will utilize employers in our extensive network; often we will actually approach new employers to find YOU the right position. That's right: not an internship; YOUR internship!

   

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Internship Industries

The Internship Placement Process

Culinary / Restaurant Management

There are hundreds of career options for someone who wants to work with food, from cooks and chefs, caterers, food writers, food stylists, recipe testers, cookbook writers, cooking teachers, demonstration chefs, or cooking show hosts. The most common career path within the Culinary Arts profession starts with a position as a chef. Chefs skillfully create and prepare meals or desserts that are as pleasing to the palate as to the eye. 

Restaurant Managers keep themselves very busy in this fast paced industry by selecting and pricing menu items, hiring chefs and servers, estimating food consumption, negotiating with food and beverage suppliers while simultaneously supervising all operations. Being a successful restauranteur is as much about managing inventory, marketing, and sound financial planning as it is about serving a delicious meal. The restaurant business is one of the most competitive industries in the world and it takes much more than top notch culinary skills to be successful.

As a Culinary Art / Restaurant intern with CE, you may find yourself doing hands on work with a professionally-trained chef to create and prepare exquisite meals or perhaps a savory dessert. Interns could work in a restaurant, pastry shop, or culinary educational institution. Interns may also  find themselves coordinating schedules with employees, working with food and beverage suppliers, coordinating shipments, or designing and pricing menus.

Past CE Culinary Art / Restaurant interns have:

  • Experienced small, medium and large restaurants
  • Learned countless recipes, through preparation and creation
  • Shadowed the Executive Sous Chef in running the kitchen staff
  • Gained exposure to every meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner
  • Assisted with all courses, appetizers, entrees, and desserts
  • And much, much more…

 

Testimonials

“I love food and cooking, having experience with family cookouts, but no actual professional experience. I requested an internship at my favorite restaurant in Boston and that is exactly where CE placed me. It was a fantastic experience where I learned tons of recipes, got to taste delicacies, and learn all about what this profession has to offer
- Natalia
“I took 7 years of culinary courses and can’t get enough of cooking, especially pastries. CE placed me in a 5 star restaurant located a few blocks from our dorm in Boston. I got to learn and practice all sorts of new recipes for every meal and course. Of course I especially loved working with the pastry chef
- Reuven
I have a passion for both the culinary arts and in management.” CE placed me in fine-dining bistro where, “I got to experience both the kitchen and front of the house. I feel as though I learned everything there is to know about the business and can’t wait to start my own!
- Ivy

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