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.
