Certificate in Food & Bev, Barista, Wine & Spirits, Level 4
Learn the practical skills to become a barista, bartender, hospo professional. Understand the fascinating world of restaurants, wine and make cocktails.
INTRODUCTION
The New Zealand Certificate in Food & Beverage, Barista, Wine & Spirits (Level 4) will develop your practical skills to enhance your career opportunities, learn about the world of wine and spirits and build pathways to more senior restaurant and hospitality management roles. You can start your hospitality and event management career in this fast growing sector of the tourism and hospitality world.
Course Content
Barista
You will learn what it takes to become one of the best hospitality service professionals. We start with the Barista Intensive a two-week programme where you learn about classic coffee styles, single-origin coffees, roasting styles, and working with milk and milk substitutes to make extraordinary coffees.
Restaurant & Café Service
This programme develops a broad range of customer service, restaurant, café, and sales skills relevent to the hospitality industry. The food and beverage products component focuses on understanding culinary terms, cookery techniques, ingredients, and specialist products like fresh herbs, bread and artisan cheeses.
Introduction to Wines
Learn about leading grape varities and international wine regions and the styles of wine that makes them famous. This programme develops your wine vocabulary to give you an edge when selling and serving both NZ and international wines includin grape varieties and famous wine appellations.
Bartending, Cocktails & Mixology
In this cocktail and mixology module, you will study key bartending skills, classic cocktail recipes, and techniques of shaking, stirring and muddling. You will learn about the international spirit categories and leading brands of spirits and liqueurs by completing the WSET Award in Spirits (Level 2), an internationally recognized qualification.
Alcohol, Stock Control & Employment
Students gain the Licensed Controller Qualification (LCQ) and understand requirements for compliance for the Sale of Alcohol Act 2012 including serving customers and checking ID. Students study their obligations & rights under the Employment Relations Act as well as stock control and how hospitality businesses manage their inventories.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Graduates will be able to work as junior front of house, waiters and supervisors in cafes, restaurants, catering businesses, bars, clubs, luxury resorts, hotels, superyachts and tourism business.
Graduates can go on to study:
The programme is approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority under section 439 of the Education Act 2020, and New Zealand School of Food and Wine Limited is accredited to provide it under section 441 of the Act.
Page Updated: 19 Feb 2025
