Restaurant Management

Learners develop real-world deliverables, like menu cost and pricing artifacts, inventory systems, service standards, hiring and training components, marketing assets, safety documentation, POS/analytics exercises, and sustainability plans—then integrate everything into a final capstone (new restaurant business plan or existing restaurant improvement plan) with a written proposal and video pitch.

Instructor(s):

Chef Brooke Preston is a pioneer in nutrient-dense, healing cuisine, with more than three decades of experience transforming familiar comfort foods into deeply restorative meals that support the body’s innate intelligence. 

Her work began in 1992 with Tita’s Kitchen, one of the Bay Area’s first meal delivery services focused on whole, healing foods—well ahead of the wellness movement becoming mainstream. As her work evolved, so did her mission: to empower people with practical, delicious ways to reclaim their health. 

That mission came fully to life through The Green Boheme, a Sacramento-based restaurant Preston owned and operated for ten years. During her tenure, she earned international recognition as one of the world’s leading raw vegan chefs, named in Raw Food Volume 2 by Lisa Montgomery. More importantly, she used the restaurant as a living classroom—teaching, mentoring, and witnessing hundreds of individuals restore their health, vitality, and stamina through food as medicine. 

Today, Chef Preston continues her work as a coach, educator, and culinary strategist—supporting clients, catering events, facilitating cleanses, and teaching transformational food practices. She is currently developing her next book and creating Reinvented: Foundations, a metabolic reset coaching program designed to help women reprogram daily rhythms, stabilize appetite and energy, and build sustainable habits that support metabolic health—without restriction or rigid dieting. 

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac or Chromebook device.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 12 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Any word processing application (not included in enrollment).
• Microsoft Word Online
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.