Trade Partners & Affiliates

Your FDRP Membership Card entitles you to valuable savings and privileges with FDRP Trade Partners. To ensure proper credit, present your card number to any of our listed Trade Partners to receive special discount pricing on items such as consulting services, equipment and culinary classes.

Equipment and Consulting Services
Culinary Institutions and Universities
Affiliates


Culinary Institutions

The following member Institutions offer benefits spanning from restaurant discounts to FDRP Certification inclusion. Courses taken as part of the following Institutions degree program are accredited in the FDRP Certification Program. More Institutions will be added soon. Please come back and check these additional preferred benefits!

Since 1984, great chefs have taught and been created at The French Culinary Institute. We help our students be their best by bringing them the best there is: World-renowned deans such as Alain Sailhac, Jacques Pipin, Jacques Torres, Andri Soltner, Andrea Immer, Alice Waters and Alan Richman. A celebrated faculty which includes Marcella Hazan, Ron Ben-Israel and a team of distinguished chef-instructors. And a Total ImmersionSM curriculum that has you working hands-on from Day One and in the workforce in as little as six weeks (Bread Baking) or six months (Culinary or Pastry Arts). We also offer programs in wine, restaurant management and food journalism, as well as amateur courses. Part-time programs and scholarships are available.
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The FCI can also bring its expertise to you through custom professional development courses and culinary consulting on everything from menu development to commercial kitchen design.

Enjoy a taste of The FCI. FDRP members receive a 10% discount on visits to L'Ecole, the award-winning restaurant where our advanced-level culinary students gain real-world experience. To contact L'Ecole, please call 212-219-3300. For more information about programs at The French Culinary Institute, call 1-888-FCI-CHEF or visit www.frenchculinary.com.

Johnson & Wales University is a world-class university, where students have an opportunity to pursue a career education in business, hospitality, culinary arts, or technology. Scores of majors and degree programs are offered at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.

Johnson & Wales' five domestic campuses are located in Providence, Rhode Island; Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; North Miami, Florida; and Denver, Colorado. Charlotte North Carolina campus opens in September, 2004.

All campuses are accredited by the FDRP, thereby providing Johnson & Wales graduates special access to the FDRP Service Certification Program.

New England Culinary Institute was founded in 1980 in Vermont and offers a 2-year A.O.S. degree in Culinary Arts featuring its trademark 7:1 student/teacher ratio in its production classes that serve the public, as well as a B.A. in Food and Beverage Management, a Certificate Program in Basic Cooking, and a host of Continuing Education and non-professional cooking courses. We matriculate more than 700 students on two campuses -- Montpelier and Essex, VT. A school that is also a business, New England Culinary Institute owns and operates 12 diverse food service outlets including La Brioche, Chef's Table, Main Street Grill & Bar, Butler's at The Inn at Essex, and NECI Commons in Burlington, VT. In addition, we have educational partnerships with a range of institutions from Harvard University, Middlebury College, Goddard College, Norwich University at Vermont College to National Life of Vermont and the State of Vermont's Department of Employment and Training.

Our programs are characterized by small classes, hands-on training in real, working, student-run restaurants, intensive personal instruction, and paid personalized internships. At New England Culinary Institute students learn how to cook by cooking and how to manage by managing, not by watching.

NECI offers FDRP members a 15% discount on Continuing Education classes plus a 10% discount on all clothing and equipment (except books) offered at the campuses, catalogue or Internet site. Also enjoy a discount of 10% on all food purchases in all of NECI's restaurants.

Founded in 1946, The Culinary Institute of America is an independent, not-for-profit college offering bachelor's and associate degrees in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts. Courses for foodservice professionals are offered at the college's main campus in Hyde Park, NY, and at its branch for continuing education, The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in St Helena, CA.

Fairleigh Dickinson University
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
201-692-7271
www.fdu.edu/academic/newcollege/shrtm

For more than 55 years, Fairleigh Dickinson University has been at the forefront in preparing men and women for leadership roles in the hospitality industry. The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management was founded in 1942 and offers both Bachelor Degrees and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate programs. FDU is New Jersey’s only bachelor’s degree program in hotel, restaurant and tourism management and has two convenient campuses located in northern New Jersey.