One of the reasons chefs choose Culinary Academy is what comes after. Quarterdeck has 20 years of experience and has placed 6,500+ host and chef assignments across yachts, private villas, and chalets worldwide. Career-track Culinary Academy graduates are first in line for those opportunities.

When you apply to Culinary Academy, you choose between two tracks. Career-track applicants are aiming for paid chef work after the course. We accept career-track applicants only if we believe you will graduate at a level we can put forward to clients. Personal-interest applicants are not part of the placement pipeline.

We run the course ourselves. The instructor watches every student, every service, for the full week. By Friday, we have already seen what you can deliver under real service pressure. That direct visibility is what allows us to recommend you to clients with confidence, which is the single biggest difference between a Culinary Academy graduate and an unknown CV.

The Quarterdeck network covers:

Performance through the week is what gets you recommended. Thursday's trial-day rehearsal is part of that, but it is not the only signal. Your behaviour through services, your handling of curveballs, and your consistency across the seven days all matter.

On Friday morning your instructor sits down with you for an individual debrief that doubles as a placement conversation for career-track graduates: who in our network you should talk to, what kinds of operators are looking, what trial weeks come up next.

Placement is offered, not guaranteed. The course is the foundation; what opens specific doors after is your portfolio, your references, and how you cooked all week. A pass alone is not the trigger; the bar is the standard you cooked at.

Personal-interest graduates do not go into the placement pipeline, but the kitchen network and instructor relationships you build during the week tend to outlast the course in their own way.