Huata Holmes, Khyla Russell (foreground), and ( from left)
Tony Heptinstall, Dion Hyde, Brian Shea, Philip Cullen and
Noelle Liddy. Photo by Linda Robertson.
Students working in the kitchen at the new Otago
Polytechnic's hospitality school will soon star in their own
reality television show.
Once the restaurant at the school's new centre opens in a few
weeks, their work will be captured on camera and conveyed to
diners waiting for their meals.
Speaking after a special blessing for the new centre on
Friday, attended by about 60 people, the school's programme
manager of cookery, Tony Heptinstall, said the facility would
be the envy of every polytechnic in the country and one of
few where diners could see people cooking.
The new $4.1 million extension to the Student Centre in
Harbour Tce replaces the polytechnic's buildings in Tennyson
St.
It includes the new training restaurant with a bar, two
training kitchens and the production kitchen, accommodating
some of the equipment from the old kitchens .
The centre will be open for training when the new semester
starts today.
It will cater for about 120 full-time students and about 1000
undertaking short courses.
elspeth.mclean@odt.co.nz
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