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CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro

Volume 3 | No. 29 | Cagayan de Oro City | February 20-26, 2016

Sharpening the saw:

Monster Kitchen Academy Immersion at Thai Me Up Centrio

MKA Baking & Pastry Arts Batch 26

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ne of the most popular life lessons drawn from Stephen Covey’s seminal book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” is “Sharpening the Saw,” perhaps best described by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln when he said, “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.”

Monster Kitchen Academy, undoubtedly Cagayan de Oro’s most popular and successful culinary school, is a firm believer in this proven adage. Before any of their Culinary Arts or Baking & Pastry Arts students are allowed to finish their course, they undergo mandatory immersion where the

batch is tested in the field by hosting a reallife event which they themselves plan, finance and execute. “This is to give our students first-hand experience on how it is to run an actual business, and not just learn how to cook or bake,” said Jan Uy, MKA and Monster Kitchen CDO President.

“This is a very useful exercise once they venture into their own business as some 75-80 percent of our graduates actually do.” The latest MKA batch to undertake immersion was Baking & Culinary Arts Batch # 26 which conducted an “Afternoon Tea” at Thai Me Up Centrio branch last 8 February 2016. Charmaine Shepard, batch president and a nursing graduate who operates Chef ’s Diner in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, said immersion gives MKA students like herself who had no formal

training in baking and management. “We do the menu, the planning, invitations, promotions, posters, target sales and organized ourselves into committees tasked with specific jobs,” she said. “Very good exposure.” Even students with an academic background like Christian Woo, a Hotels and Restaurant Management Graduate of Lourdes College, find the MKA immersion program worthwhile, being assigned to do the liquidation and postevent financial report for her batch. immersion/PAGE 6

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