Canadian Armed Forces Cook
Chief Warrant Officer Jay J Rached
Canadian Armed Forces / Materiel J4 Director
Food Services
18 November, 2014
Kitchens are hard
environments and they form
incredibly strong characters.
Chef Gordon Ramsay
Successes
• Revised Cook Entry Standards (ES) are now approved
and posted on the DPGR website as well as updated at
the Recruiting Centers.
• QL 3 Part I & II removed and a Pre-QL5A OJT introduced.
• National Standardized Cycle Menu (NSCM), rolled out 03
Nov 2014.
• Food Service Officer training will now be conducted as a
formal course in Borden vice peer to peer training that
was provided in the past.
Training
All of our training is delivered at the CFLTC in Borden. Our
training is developed and taught by military Cooks and covers
all aspects of the culinary arts, from basic cookery techniques
to food service management of large and small dining
facilities.
Throughout our careers we will spend approximately 174 days
training.
QL 3 – Apprentice Cook – 96 training days
QL 5 – Journeyman Cook – 40 training days
QL 6A – Cook Supervisor – 25 training days
Cook Manager (formerly QL7) – 13.5 training days
Ongoing Issues
• The Cook Occupation is currently RED, recruiting is
ongoing and we are getting closer to our SIP targets but
there is no guarantee that the intake numbers will be
met. This could negatively cook training at all levels.
• CDA initiative on recruiting semi-skilled candidates
directly from Community Colleges. (Jan – Mar 2015)
• Occupational Analysis (OA): due to commence in Sep
2015.