Our Affiliates

The ACF Triad has aligned itself with with great organizations in which they both support and work simulataneously in the Triad Community:

-Guilford Technical Community College

- Chef and Child

- Triad Community Kitchen

Guilford Technical Community College Culinary Arts Program-
   GTCC has over 500 active culinary arts students that are being trained job ready each and every year. They have both a Culinary Arts and Hotel Restaurant Management Degree. As part of the NC Community College system its purpose to prepare students for the workforce community. 

Chef and Child-
  The purpose of the Chef & Child Foundation, which was founded in 1989, is to foster, promote, encourage and stimulate an awareness of proper nutrition in preschool and elementary school children, as well as combat childhood obesity. The foundation funds programs which give instruction on nutrition and proper eating habits to school age children.

The American Culinary Federation Education Foundation Chef & Child Foundation, Inc., focuses on the nutritional development of all of America’s children in all economic segments. All children need to learn how to cook and how to choose healthy foods. With many children living in homes with a single parent or with both parents working, children are cooking for their little brothers and sisters, and even for themselves and their parents.

If children are cooking, then American Culinary Federation chefs want to be involved in their nutritional education. So, please join us in our effort to end childhood hunger, and obesity and usher in a healthier tomorrow for all children.

Triad Communnity Kitchen-
  Chef Jeff Bacon, Director and Excecutive Chef for the program, and certified guest chefs provide the classroom and kitchen training in the Second Harvest Food Bank warehouse. Each 10-week training session includes certification in Serv-Safe sanitation, basic culinary skills, knife skills, kitchen safety, mass food production, and "cook chill" technology training. Training includes instruction and activities designed to help ensure students are "workplace ready" and a one-week internship with a local food service organization or restaurant to help students gain "real world" job experience. Graduates may obtain further training, professional development and scholarship assistance with transferable credits applied to continued study at Guilford Technical Community College's Culinary program and Forsyth Technical Community College's Culinary program