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Food Services Management

Overview

The Food Services Management program is designed for professionals overseeing food operations in large-scale institutional settings such as hospitals, long-term care homes, correctional facilities and schools.

This program equips you with the leadership, budgeting, procurement and operational skills needed to manage complex food service systems. With a focus on safety, nutrition and efficiency, you’ll be prepared to lead teams and deliver high-quality food service in environments where consistency and care matter most.
 

The new Food Services Management program is coming soon to Assiniboine starting September 2026! Sign up for our interest list to receive more information as soon as it's available.

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Program Learning Outcomes

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

  • Plan menus to accommodate the nutritional, dietary and medical needs, cultural and religious requirements, and personal preferences of clients.
  • Manage handling, preparation and service of food to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, policies, procedures, and industry best practices for health, safety, sanitation, quality assurance and client satisfaction.
  • Manage nutritional needs of diverse clients in health care and other food service settings in collaboration with or under the direction of health care professionals.
  • Support others to work professionally and ethically in accordance with industry, organization and legal standards.
  • Monitor relevant local, national and global trends, emerging technologies, changes to legislation and best practices to enhance work performance and guide management decisions.
  • Deliver customer service that anticipates, meets and/or exceeds individual expectations and is consistent with organization standards and objectives.
  • Manage hiring, coaching, training, scheduling, work performance and evaluation of department staff in accordance with human resources, labour relations, workplace health and safety, and industry best practices.
  • Manage inventory, suppliers and procurement of goods and services according to industry best practices, financial constraints, and principles of social responsibility and environmental sustainability.
  • Analyze food and nutrition services and operations, and manage the implementation and evaluation of changes, to support continuous improvement.
  • Plan and manage budgets consistent with organization objectives and legal requirements for food and nutrition service departments.
  • Select, use and support the use of information and industry-specific technologies to enhance individual work performance and the management and delivery of food and nutrition services.
  • Promote food and nutrition services and healthy living to support the general well-being of stakeholders.

 

Admissions

The new Food Services Management program is coming soon to Assiniboine! Sign up for our interest list to receive more information as soon as it's available.

I'm interested!

 

Careers & Connections

Connections

Assiniboine has a number of agreements with other colleges, universities and professional organizations, making it possible to apply credit taken at Assiniboine to programs at other institutions. For information on agreements, see Articulation Agreements.

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