ProStart Partners discover
a wealth of practical benefits.
Industry Benefits
- Invest in our nation's future.
- Help create solutions to key human resource challenges.
- Enhance the restaurant and foodservice industry's image.
- Broaden the awareness of the numerous career opportunities available within the foodservice industry.
- Impact the lives of students by introducing them to a career in the restaurant and foodservice industry.
- Bring the ProStart experience to life for the students through your participation with educators and industry mentors.
Company Benefits
- Be seen as an employer of choice, who offers career and financial growth opportunities.
- National name recognition in ProStart program materials - brochures, Web site, media campaign materials, coverage in trade and consumer media, logos at national industry and education conferences and presentations, generating positive exposure and awareness of your company in the restaurant and foodservice industry.
- Your company will be exposed to an expanded market of potential employees and customers, from students and parents to all others involved in these statewide business and education partnerships.
- Connect with future leaders of the restaurant and foodservice industry who will be your employees or future consumers of your products.
- Increase the pool of qualified applicants for your company with students who have had valuable classroom instruction.
- Reduce recruiting costs.
- Decrease entry-level training investment.
- Associate your brand with an exclusive event for young students pursuing careers in the restaurant and foodservice industry.
Your partnership helps us continue to build the ProStart program on both a national and state level. Below are examples of your dollars hard at work.
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
Contributions from the national level are used to:
- Provide start-up funding to new State Hospitality Education partnerships.
- Create marketing and promotional materials for national and state use.
- Help change the image of the industry into one that offers many career opportunities.
- Professional development activities for classroom instructors.
- Establish standards for classroom lessons and internship experiences.
- Publicize and promote the national industry certificates.
- Assist bi-annual State Directors' roundtables and workshops.
- Create general awareness and media outreach about the industry, its career opportunities and successful programs throughout the U.S.
- Produce newsletters and other communication vehicles with schools, administrators, instructors, students, employers and others.
STATE PARTNERSHIP
Contributions at the state level are used to:
- Identify schools and communities to implement ProStart programs.
- Work with State Department of Education and local district officials to ensure that industry training materials meet state and district curriculum and programmatic criteria.
- Train teachers on use of industry-created classroom materials.
- Recruit industry employers to provide paid student internships.
- Train workplace mentors to provide well-rounded, structured internships for students.
- Conduct recognition and celebratory events for successful students, teachers and mentors (scholarship dinners/luncheons, award ceremonies).
- Public relations campaign to generate awareness of industry careers and successful programs.
- Generate positive impact on the state.
