Business and Service Division
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| Bharat Desai Team leader |
Commercial Cookery and Bakery (Top End)
The Commercial Cookery and Bakery team offers courses in modern, European and Asian style cookery from certificate I to IV level, as well as both retail baking (bread) and retail baking (bread, cake and pastry) at certificate III level.
For students interested in studying a course that will provide the skills to work in a commercial kitchen, bakery or patisserie environment contact 8946 7526 for further information.
If you have a passion for cooking or baking CDU’s VET courses can offer you a pathway to a successful career in either of these industries.
These courses lead to skills that would help you to secure a job as:
- Head chef
- Second chef or Sous chef
- Cooks
- Kitchen hand
- Baker/pastry cook
- Bread baker
Courses delivered by the team:
- Certificate I in Hospitality (Kitchen Operations)
- Certificate II in Hospitality (Kitchen Operations)
- Certificate III in Food Processing (Retail Baking - Bread)
- Certificate III in Food Processing (Retail Baking - Combined)
- Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery)
- Certificate IV in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery)
Contact the team:
| Team leader: Bharat Desai | |
| Phone: | 08 8946 7844 |
| Email: | bharat.desai@cdu.edu.au |
| Customer services officer: Tracey Worth | |
| Phone: | 08 8946 7526 |
| Email: | cookery_bakery@cdu.edu.au |
| Campus: | Palmerston |
Team members
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| T Y Lee Senior lecturer cookery; international and apprentice facilitator |
Steve Sunk Senior lecturer cookery; remote facilitator |
Robert Schwerdt Bakery facilitator |
Jason Wilkes Lecturer cookery; apprentice facilitator |
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Gerret Johnason |
David Barker |
Antonio Tjung Lecturer, cookery |
Rachelle Richardson Lecturer cookery |
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| Tracey Worth Customer service officer |
Cassandra Schwerdt - Assistant Technical Officer | Rosaline Manning Assistant technical officer |
Minoushka Hesketh - Assistant Technical officer |










