Training & Education

A high price to pay: Costs of foodborne illness

Posted On: May 22, 2013

Being a foodservice manager comes with a great variety of responsibilities. But one of the most important of those is the responsibility to keep the food you serve safe. You simply can’t afford not to.

More than a Mustang

Posted On: May 10, 2013

On August 6 2013, at the WRA Education Foundation’s Golf FORE! Education Tournament, all eyes will be on a ProStart student drawing a slip of paper from a drum filled with 3,000 raffle tickets.

Winners! Oak Harbor High School Again!

Posted On: May 02, 2013

OLYMPIA, Wash.—Once again the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation (WRAEF) is pleased to congratulate the Oak Harbor High School ProStart culinary team on its fifth place win at the National ProStart Invitational. Oak Harbor won top honors in Washington State’s Boyd’s Coffee ProStart competition in March, advancing to the April 19-21 national competition in Baltimore, Md., where culinary teams from 43 other states prepared meals for the judges.

Winners from ProStart Invitational culinary competition announced

Posted On: March 04, 2013

Students from 14 Washington high schools competed Saturday in the 13th annual Boyd’s Coffee ProStart Invitational, where two schools walked away with top honors and thousands of dollars in scholarship prize money.

ProStart cultivates top-notch restaurant talent for Washington state

Posted On: August 21, 2012

As customers file into their favorite local restaurants and enjoy their favorite dishes, they don’t notice the absence of an iconic part of American culture. An experience often shared around the country is no longer readily available, mostly due to the added expense, new regulations and training time.