Noodle bar restaurant chain Wagamama has joined with TAFE New South Wales South Western Sydney Institute to launch a new on the job training initiative it says will help establish a new benchmark in training standards for the Australian hospitality industry.
The program will award employees working at the international restaurant group a TAFE Certificate IV in Hospitality or
Certificate III in commercial cookery.
TAFE New South Wales South Western Sydney Institute’s Christine Williamson said Wagamama had been selected for
the co-branded program “in recognition of its world-class training standards.”
“Wagamama is renowned for providing the very best in on-the-job training for each and every one of its team members. we are now formally recognising that with equivalent certificates, ” Williamson said.
“By creating a co-branded traineeship program with Wagamama we are pushing the industry to better train staff and improve the industry as a whole.”
Wagamama chief executive “noodler”, Mark Rowland, said employee training should be an essential part of every business.
“In order for the Australian hospitality industry to thrive we need to continue to up-skill our workforce; especially in important areas such as food safety, food preparation and customer service,” said Rowland. “At Wagamama we demand consistency and quality in everything we do. Our team members are the reason why we’re the most popular chain of award-winning Asian-inspired noodle restaurants in the country.”
Wagamama opened in London’s Bloomsbury in 1992 and now more than 70 restaurants around the world, in the UK, Europe, the Asia Pacific Rim and the Middle East,
In Australia there are 12 restaurants now operating in New South Wales, ACT, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.