What is the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington Education Foundation?
Every state has a restaurant association, and most state restaurant associations have an education foundation. Our goal is to promote the restaurant industry as a career of unlimited opportunity, and to create a pipeline of qualified employees for area restaurants. Why is it important in D.C.? Approximately one of 15 jobs in Washington is in restaurants and food service. Yet restaurants sometimes have trouble finding and keeping good employees. We partner with local school districts, charter schools, nonprofits and other organizations and provide them with everything they need to be quality culinary educators. We’re doing all we can to expand and perfect culinary education in the area. Have any of the students gone on to become renowned chefs? Our organization is still young, so it’s early to have turned out chefs just yet. But we’ve sent students to some of the best culinary schools in the country, including the Culinary Institute of America. And we’ve had students go on to work in pl
