Culinary Institute of Barcelona
MDR
New
For entrepreneurs, chefs and restaurant managers who want to have the executive, strategic and operational vision for any type of restaurant business in the 21st century.
Curiosity is the starting point of every great journey
Gain a global perspective to manage, launch, or lead 21st-century restaurants
Get ready today for what may happen tomorrow
Enhance your skills
To generate results-oriented business models.
Acquire new skills
To manage yourself, other people and the business.
Price and finance management
You will get to know your business, supply, demand and pricing methods better.
Gain the ability to analyse
You will assess your own offering and business idea by adapting them based on demand.
Learn from mistakes and failures made by entrepreneurs
You will have similar experiences to entrepreneurs in the restaurant industry and apply their learning to your own project.
Gain an in-depth knowledge of finance
You will monitor the projection of the company's key functions in the short, medium and long term.
Provide the knowledge
of legislation, health, consumer and restaurant regulations.
Lead your future team, your main asset
With tools and techniques to improve performance and develop your management and leadership skills.
Transforming the user experience
Through the creation of products and experiences for your end customer.
Create your business plan
You will learn how to plan, execute and evaluate projects in controlled environments and develop your own business plan.
Gain an in-depth knowledge of marketing channels
From a solid foundation of offline and online marketing, communication and impact on strategy.
1260 hours designed to transform
every day of your learning into a show
+80
INSTRUCTORS
PROFESSIONALS IN ACTIVE WILL BE YOUR MENTORS
+160
HOURS
OF CHALLENGES & WORKSHOP THAT
WILL PUT YOU TO THE TEST
1
TRIP
TO LEARN ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS MODELS
10
EXPERIENTIAL OUTINGS
TO GET TO KNOW BUSINESS MODELS AND THEIR OPERATIONS
9
STRESS CHALLENGES
WHICH WILL TEST YOUR SKILLS IN REAL SCENARIOS
More than just knowledge.
We train the managers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the restaurant trade of the 21st century.
International internships where
you can continue learning with the CIB
3
MONTHS
Working in one or two restaurants
100%
CUSTOMIZED
Suited to your goals, interests and performance
Over the course of three months, you will put your learning into practice while gaining professional experience in companies and organisations that represent different business models within the gastronomic and professional restaurant sector, with which CIB has established collaboration agreements based on educational quality standards. In addition, we closely monitor your progress throughout your professional journey.
We are constantly creating dozens of unique experiences for each call.
For who?
I want to lead
For people who want to cross the threshold into a restaurant with a core competitive edge in the market from within the culinary sector or elsewhere.
I want to be a better manager
For people who already run restaurants and want to enhance their knowledge, skills, attitudes and possibilities to be the best kind of manager.
I want to lead projects
For people who want to take responsibility for creating new lines of business or expansion from a management position in an existing restaurant business.
I want to take my business to the next level
For restaurant owners or managers who want to take their business to next level in terms of operations, performance and leadership.
I want to be an entrepreneur
For people with a highly entrepreneurial spirit who want to work on and validate their idea or existing business to reduce risks or increase the chances for success.
I want to have an international educational experience
For people with a broad view of the world who want to have an educational experience that is both international and well-rounded and that meets their expectations.
I want to get ready for the challenges of the 21st century
For those people who think restaurant businesses are changing and that being ready is no longer enough to deal with these changes.
Who will you share with?
+80%
INTERNATIONAL PROFILE
You will live with students with an entrepreneurial profile from every continent.
+100%
ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE
All of them will share this experience with you for the rest of their lives.
30
AVERAGE AGE
Experiences from all ages that will help you grow.
5.2
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
In the restaurants or cooking.
30%
HAVE RUN A BUSINESS
You classmates will have experiences from their businesses that grow you.
+80%
WITH RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE
Your classmates will have experiences that will help you grow for the future.
50/50%
WOMEN/MEN
We try to have the greatest gender diversity in our classrooms.
100%
MATCH
Each programme is designed based on the criteria of heterogeneity and compatibility.
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT
Restaurant management training is outdated
Barcelona is a leading city in international gastronomic innovation
Education should allow for both a family life and a professional life
Education in general is distant from the realities of the 21st century
Education is an investment in my future
Education should be international
IF YOUR GOAL IS
To undertake and/or validate your business idea
To take your restaurant to the next level
To give a boost to your career
To stand out from the crowd
To gain the best education
IF YOU
Are an entrepreneur
Are passionate
Are creative
Are a non-conformist
Challenge the status quo
A leader
The CIBers, our students, talk
The moment is yours
Upcoming calls for applications
Absolutely everything
Equipment
All the equipment that you will need for your course.
A gastronomic professional trip
You will travel for one week to learn and get to know first hand about different business models.
All experiences
All programme activities, both at the CIB and off campus are included in the price.
Membership of the CIB
You will become a CIBer for the rest of your life. You will have access to unique job offers, benefits and work opportunities.
Graduation ceremony
You will remember this day as one of the most special and memorable days of your life.
All raw ingredients included
In no other school in the world will you handle and cook with so many raw ingredients as those included in the price at the CIB.
The CIB is just the beginning
Attitude
CIBers
Being a CIBer means being ready for tomorrow. They are united by this forward-thinking attitude and their goal of impacting the future by enhancing their surroundings.
Job opportunities
CIB alumni have access to our job bank called "I want a CIBer". The CIB is a guarantee of talent for restaurants, hotels and food companies.
Entrepreneurship
We nurture the talent that comes from our classrooms. We are surrounded by great professionals who will know how to accompany you in the initial stages of your projects.
Events
The CIB organizes and hosts many events, and you, as a student or alumnus, will always be more than welcome.
Networking
When you finish your course, besides the knowledge you will have acquired, you’ll also have gained countless contacts of talented students from across the world, as well as your teachers. It will be up to you to make the most of them.
The next generation of teachers
We keep an eye out for talent and nurture that which emerges from our classrooms. Sometimes we have the honor of incorporating this talent into our team.
Your continuous education
CIBers will always have privileged access to our continuous education programs under the best conditions, including our postgraduate programs.
Use of the facilities
The CIB will be available for you to accelerate your ideas, give your presentations or propose an activity whenever you need it.
For whatever your future will be
Here we teach you how to stand out
Careers:
Restaurant Manager
Executive Chef Leadership, overseeing culinary management and the development of the gastronomic offering
Co-founder of a restaurant business
Leading projects and spin-offs
Restaurant Growth Manager
Expert consultant in restaurant creation
Catering business management
Executive positions in companies and catering groups
Financial controller for catering and restaurant businesses and chains
Business and new project analyst
Business growth and expansion developer
Commercial Leadership, driving positioning strategies and business development
Mass consumption product manager
Purchasing Manager
Operations Leadership, ensuring the coordination and optimisation of operational processes
Your competitive edge:
You will have learned about business models and real cases that will allow you to anticipate unforeseen scenarios.
You will have developed cognitive and leadership skills allowing you to lead an excellent culinary team.
You will know how to set up different business models.
You will be able to create and innovate by validating your business ideas to fulfil objectives before others.
You will have the preparation to successfully join any multidisciplinary and international culinary team.
You will have a high capacity for business situation analysis and decision-making methodology.
You will have developed the necessary criteria for supervising digital marketing campaigns.
If your situation is within the framework of a family business, you will be able to take the next steps to handle the takeover from one generation to the next.
Our admissions team will walk you through each of these simple steps
Step 1
The first step is as simple as filling out the contact form for one of our advisors to contact you.
Step 2
We will assign you a personal advisor who will call you as soon as possible and will guide and support you throughout the process to answer all your questions.
Step 3
It is time to complete the admission form. This step is crucial to successfully reaching the next stage of the application process.
Step 4
If your admission form impressed us, you will move on to the interview phase with the Admissions Committee. This online interview will be set at a specific time depending on availability.
Step 5
If you pass our evaluation interview, our Admissions Committee will send you an email with the exciting news that you have been accepted into the Culinary Institute of Barcelona.
Step 6
You will have to reserve your place the same week you receive the acceptance email, and pay the rest of the registration fee within 15 days (30% of the total amount of the course you have chosen).
Step 1
The first step is as simple as filling out the contact form for one of our advisors to contact you.
Step 2
We will assign you a personal advisor who will call you as soon as possible and will guide and support you throughout the process to answer all your questions.
Step 3
It is time to complete the admission form. This step is crucial to successfully reaching the next stage of the application process.
Step 4
If your admission form impressed us, you will move on to the interview phase with the Admissions Committee. This online interview will be set at a specific time depending on availability.
Step 5
If you pass our evaluation interview, our Admissions Committee will send you an email with the exciting news that you have been accepted into the Culinary Institute of Barcelona.
Step 6
You will have to reserve your place the same week you receive the acceptance email, and pay the rest of the registration fee within 15 days (30% of the total amount of the course you have chosen).