Helping young people build confidencedevelop skillsgain independence

CATERING WITH A CONSCIENCE

WHO ARE WE

ABOUT US

Tasty Az  is an award winning community based, not for profit, catering and hospitality social enterprise providing opportunity for young people living with disability to access unique, innovative and individually designed “bespoke” training programs.  These unique training programs are created to meet the needs of each participant and assist them to achieve their dreams and goals.

Our handpicked dedicated and experienced support workers together with our management team constantly evaluate and reviewing this journey in order for the desired outcome for all concerned. Tasty Az welcomes school work experience, school work placement, and volunteer students, students seeking hospitality pre accredited training, NDIS funded plan managed and self-managed participants living with a disability or learning difficulty.

Tasty Az is not a registered NDIS provider and Tasty Az does not deliver SLES the School Leavers Employment Program.

SUPPORT US

OUR CATERING

Our young people work hard to produce good quality food suitable for all kinds of occasions.  We provide catering for events, business meetings or weekly snacks for your family.  We also attend local events in the community to sell our fresh and sealed products.

We would love your support in buying from our young people and helping both the training programs as well as giving joy to our students.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

In October 2021, our pre accredited Introduction to Hospitality program was nominated for a Victorian State Learn Local Award.  This nomination celebrated the achievements that we had developed pathways for our participants to advance to further learning in our Tasty Az @ Burrinja training café in their pursuit to strive to achieve employment dreams, goals and outcomes.

We are proud to announce that in December 2021 this outstanding Catering for Success program was recognised, won and awarded Finalist Victorian Learn Local Pre Accredited Program Award (for large providers).

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

WORK EXPERIENCE

We provide opportunities for students from year 9 and above to explore hospitality, cooking, catering & café work.

WORK PLACEMENTS

Our students gain valuable work experience, life skills and employability skills with real “hands on” hospitality, cooking, and catering experience.

PRE-ACCREDITED TRAINING

Our Introduction to Hospitality training program (in partnership with The Basin Community House), focuses on developing an understanding of workplace expectations and skills.

The expectation of our three courses is to enable participants to grow independence, confidence, knowledge and skill sets whilst developing friendships with their peers.

Our courses are:

With the love of cooking, our trainers focus on reading, writing, numerical comprehension and life skills.

Our trainers concentrate on customer services, communication skills, working in a team, organising yourself, time management, financial transactions and monetary skills, and use of technology.

Our trainers concentrate on goal setting, planning, organising and problem solving, creative thinking, collaboration and working in a team.