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Invest in your future in the culinary arts

CCSC is committed to training adults who are looking for fresh success in the culinary arts. Culinary training and life skills management provide foundations for successful careers in the food service industry. We address hunger at its root cause – unemployment.

Our 14-week program provides 450 hours of culinary training, food safety and sanitation; job readiness skills; and job placement assistance. After graduation, CCSC provides continuing resources for our alumni. Come by to See, Feel and Taste the impact that CCSC has on its students, alumni, and the City of Charlotte!

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The Community Culinary School of Charlotte (CCSC) is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides workforce development and job placement assistance in the culinary arts for adults who have faced barriers to long-term successful employment.

Learn more about us. We are CCSC: Teaching skills and Changing Lives.

CCSC is a hunger-fighting workforce development nonprofit organization that impacts the city of Charlotte, N.C. and its surrounding counties.

First day for Class 43

May 16, 2012 

Student culinarians of Class 43 join hands Wednesday with staff from the school and Friendship Trays for the traditional daily announcements and prayer before sharing lunch in the Distribution Street kitchen.

Congratulations to Class 42 graduates!

April 19, 2012