A southern California school gets state and federal funding for hospitality workforce training. So far it appears to be working.
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Solano got teary-eyed as she described how she felt about being accepted into the training — which is selective — then securing a job afterward that she said allows her to better help her three adult children, two of whom are in Mexico. Chefs at the Hospitality Training Academy guide their students throughout the class as they make their dishes on Feb. 13, 2024. Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters.Last year, 163 people graduated from the academy’s apprenticeship line-cook program, all of whom were placed into union jobs at hotels, stadiums, Disneyland and USC. Of that number, 94% were people of color, Goldman said. The graduates’ starting wages ranged from $19.92 an hour to $27.89 an hour, she said.
Minato added that “some people in our classes have lived in their cars or vans, and some people are coming directly from a shelter” — and when they graduate, they secure union jobs with benefits, labor protections and more. Another training academy graduate, 22-year-old Donathan Duong, has been a banquet cook at the Biltmore Los Angeles hotel, a luxury hotel, for more than a year. This is his first “real job,” where he makes $27.45 an hour, which he said is one of the highest-paying cooking jobs in downtown L.A. Duong, who said he never liked school and didn’t want to go to college, is also in the Marine Corps Reserves and is enthusiastic about what he’s doing.
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