True Kitchen™

A Blue Banner Innovation in Real-World Culinary Training

Blue Banner proudly announces the official launch of True Kitchen™—a next-generation culinary training platform that brings real kitchens, real pressure, and real readiness to the heart of culinary workforce development.

In a time when the foodservice industry demands talent that is immediately productive, True Kitchen™ provides a powerful solution by placing trainees directly into active restaurant kitchens as part of a structured, supervised training experience.

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This is not a simulation. This is not a class.This is True Kitchen™.

🔹 What is True Kitchen™?

True Kitchen™ is a proprietary Blue Banner training program that blends technical instruction with hands-on immersion in real restaurant environments.

Developed in collaboration with leading restaurant partners across Southern California, it ensures that every graduate completes their training in live kitchens—prepping, plating, and performing under real-world conditions.

True Kitchen™ is built on one belief:

“The only way to train for the kitchen… is in the kitchen.”

🔹 Why It Matters

Today’s restaurants face an urgent challenge: finding skilled, reliable kitchen staff who can contribute immediately. At the same time, aspiring cooks need meaningful, real-world preparation—not classroom theory or unpaid shadowing.

True Kitchen™ solves both problems:

• ✅ For Restaurants: A reliable pipeline of job-ready, pre-trained culinary professionals

• ✅ For Trainees: Structured training + real experience + career placement

• ✅ For Workforce Systems: A scalable, standards-aligned solution for industry talent development

🔹 Key Features

• Real Kitchens OnlyAll training occurs inside operational restaurants, in partnership with VIP Employers

• Structured, Supervised CurriculumEvery participant follows a defined sequence of tasks, skills, and evaluations

• Soft Skills & Culture ReadinessCommunication, teamwork, and kitchen discipline are part of the core training

• Job Readiness CertificationUpon completion, graduates receive the True Kitchen™ Certificate of Job Readiness, recognized by Blue Banner's employer network

• Joint OJT Program CompatibleTrue Kitchen™ integrates with government-supported On-the-Job Training (OJT) initiatives through Blue Banner's Joint OJT Program™, allowing partner restaurants to access wage subsidies for qualifying hires

🔹 For Our Restaurant Partners

As a participating True Kitchen™ Host Restaurant, you gain:

• Priority access to top-tier, pre-screened culinary candidates

• Flexible scheduling and training design input

• Eligibility for government OJT subsidy participation

• Branding as a Blue Banner Partner Kitchen™

• The opportunity to shape the next generation of kitchen professionals

Your kitchen becomes a classroom. Your chefs become mentors.Your business becomes part of the future of culinary education.

🔹 For Government & Workforce Agencies

True Kitchen™ offers a unique model for culinary workforce development:

• Aligns with WIOA/OJT requirements and local job placement targets

• Produces measurable job-readiness outcomes

• Provides high-retention placements with real employers

• Integrates into regional employer networks and economic development initiatives

Blue Banner welcomes partnerships with city, county, and state agencies committed to improving access, equity, and outcomes in culinary employment pathways.

🔹 True Kitchen™, Now Open

True Kitchen™ is currently operating in partnership with select restaurants in Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley, with expansion planned in 2025.We are actively onboarding new restaurant partners and government collaborators.

To become a Host Restaurant, request partnership information, or refer talent:

📩 Contact us at info@bluebanner.us

🌐 Visit www.bluebanner.us/truekitchen

🔹 About Blue Banner

Blue Banner is an education-driven culinary innovation company based in Los Angeles.Our mission is to build better kitchens by developing better people.Through programs like True Kitchen™, we connect schools, chefs, and cities in a shared vision of excellence in training, hiring, and long-term success.

Trademark Notice

True Kitchen™ and Blue Banner™ are trademarks of Blue Banner Group LLC.All rights reserved.