█ Vocational Qualification
Restaurant and Catering Services, Cook
Course has started in JANUARY 2026
There’s a growing demand for restaurant and catering services’ professionals in Finland.
Read more about Edusampo’s 1,5-year top-up programme in this field!
Competences acquired after completion
Holders of a vocational qualification in cleaning and property services are able to:
- EPlan and carry out food preparation or customer service tasks and work in sales in the catering sector
- EServe Finnish and foreign customers in a customer-oriented manner
- EUse professional vocabulary in foreign languages, and draw on their cultural knowledge
- EWork in a sales-minded, customer service oriented and quality conscious manner and profitably, productively, and responsibly as well as operate in compliance with hygiene requirements, and sustainable operating practices
- EWork in food preparation tasks at restaurants with different business ideas or missions or in public sector units
- EPrepare tasty, nutritious, and wholesome food, taking special diets into account
- ESet out food as individual plated dishes or dishes for a large group of customers.
Education options:
1,5 year Top-up programme for those with prior knowledge or training in the field
Requirements:
- Certified vocational diploma OR other kind of training with diploma or certificate
- Employer references with detailed description of work tasks showing diverse experience and ability to work in professional kitchens
- English Test (interview)
- Professional interview
Compulsory pre-orientation training online (Finnish language & culture)
- Before moving to Finland
- 3 months/ 300 hours
- Target level A1.3 (CEFR)
Group size max. 20-22 participants.
Tuition first in English and then progressively in Finnish, practical exams taken in Finnish.
Edusampo services include: Tuition on campus and all learning materials, language lessons online (if applicable) and on the job learning in the workplace
Not included: Travel, accommodation, insurance, landing services, laptop
Work tasks that can be executed:
A cook who has completed the competence area of food services works at restaurants or in the catering sector, staff canteens, cafés, catering companies, freight and passenger ships as well as institutional kitchens.
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