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Sustainable development in service production (3 cr)

Code: CA00DA70-3005

General information


Enrollment

11.11.2024 - 15.01.2025

Timing

20.01.2025 - 23.02.2025

Credits

3 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

3 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Hospitality Management

Teachers

  • Kirta Nieminen

Student groups

  • RESTO24
    Bachelor of Hospitality Management, Full-time studies

Objective

Student can explain what is meant by sustainable development activities. Students can develop the quality of food services oprationse ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable. The student is able to design climate-resistant and responsible food services and promote their carbon neutrality. The student is able to define what food waste is and analyze the causes of food waste and develop waste management for food services. Student will get skills to involve customers in responsibility work, as well as tools to draw up a responsibility plan for food services.

Content

Sustainability in the professional kitchen
Responsible procurement of food, goods and services
Sustainable meal and menu planning and carbon footprint assessment
Food waste in the professional kitchen
Sustainable waste recycling and sorting
Sustainable cleaning
Energy efficiency in the professional kitchen
Responsibility plan for food services

Materials

Lectures, multiple choice tests, essay

Teaching methods

Lectures, multiple choice tests, essay

Student workload

Overall workload for student 81 h, contact lectures 12 h, self-access learning 69 h

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student is able to define the content of the concept of sustainable development and is able to develop the quality of professional cuisine to be ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable. Students can explain what skills are needed when designing and developing climate-resistant and responsible food services. Students are able to give examples of how carbon neutrality is promoted.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student knows the content of the concept of sustainability and is able to develop the quality of the work of professional cuisine into ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable. Students are well equipped to design and develop climate-resistant and responsible food services, nd promote their carbon neutrality together with customers.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students are able to explain the content of the concept of sustainable development and develop the quality of the work of professional cuisine to be ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable. Students are excellent in designing and developing climate-resistant and responsible food services, and to promote their carbon neutrality together with customers.

Assessment methods and criteria

Active participation to lectures, multiple choice tests, essay