Helping chefs lern entrepreneurial skills

Culinary Institute's School For 'Foodpreneurs' To Cook Up Innovation : The Salt : NPR:

"The Culinary Institute of America may be best known for churning out chefs. And some of its graduates — from Grant Achatz to Roy Choi to Anthony Bourdain — have succeeded in entertaining and inspiring a new generation of foodies.

But not all CIA graduates don chef toques.

Increasingly, culinary school graduates are charting new career paths that require more business chops. Take, for example, CIA grad Steve Ells, who founded the mega fast-casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Recognizing the potential to help chefs pursue entrepreneurial goals, the CIA is launching its own business school. CIA President Tim Ryan describes it as "the first business school of its kind in the world focused specifically on [entrepreneurship] in the food world.""



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