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Build a food business that lasts.

CCA Manila's Center for Food Entrepreneurship — connecting food businesses to the knowledge, experts, and industry that help them grow.

The name is the model. We connect the food industry — four ways.

01To knowledge

Bootcamps, workshops, and training that teach what running a food business actually takes.

02To experts

Working chefs, operators, and specialists — not career lecturers.

03To community

A growing network of owners and teams who learn, share, and grow alongside each other.

04To industry

Partnerships that link food businesses with the brands and suppliers that serve them.

How we work with you

Two ways in — one team behind both.

Most food businesses meet us in a workshop. When you're ready to go deeper, the same experts come in to work on your operation directly.

01

Bootcamps & Events

The front door

Time-boxed, hands-on programs open to any food-business owner. Learn a specific skill, meet our experts, and leave with something you can use on Monday.

  • Public bootcamps like Beyond the Plate
  • Summits and industry gatherings
  • Short workshops and masterclasses

Best for owners and teams building their skills.

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02

Consultancy

When you're ready to go deeper

Tailored engagements for a specific challenge in your business. Our core practice and our expert network, brought in to work alongside your team.

  • Scoped to your operation and goals
  • Led by CCA-vetted specialists
  • Available whenever you reach out

Best for businesses ready to fix or scale an operation.

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In the room

The work, the rooms, the people.

Bootcamps, summits, and conversations with the operators already building food businesses.

Chef Nav & Chev Thirdy — Hapag
Ryan K. Cruz — Ramen Yushoken
Isabel Lozano — Decorum by MIL
CCA Connect Bootcamp · Brittany Hotel
CCA Connect Bootcamp · Brittany Hotel
Family Succession · Brittany Hotel
Family Succession · Brittany Hotel
Summit · Brittany Hotel
Summit · Brittany Hotel
Tikim · Brittany Hotel
Tikim · Brittany Hotel
CCA Connect Bootcamp
CCA Connect Bootcamp
Tikim
Tikim
Hospitality Summit

Don't miss the next one

Hospitality Summit

June 4, 2026

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Backed by CCA Manila

The teaching authority of the country's leading culinary school.

We're the industry-engagement arm of CCA Manila. Every bootcamp, workshop, and consultancy is grounded in the same standards that have trained the Philippines' chefs and food entrepreneurs — not a workshop run on the side.

60%

of guest complaints are people-related, not product-related

70%

of hospitality employees report emotional exhaustion weekly

1 in 3

of frontliners feel recognized for great service

BGC

Professional teaching kitchens and classrooms at CCA Manila

Who you'll learn from

Working experts, not career lecturers.

Our experts run kitchens, bars, and food businesses of their own. When you join a bootcamp or bring us in, you work with the people actually doing it.

For brand partners

Connect your brand to the food-business community.

The owners, chefs, and operators who decide what to buy are already in our room. We help food and beverage brands reach, educate, and build loyalty with them — through programs backed by CCA Manila.

Sponsored bootcamps & summits

Put your brand at the center of the programs food entrepreneurs already come to.

Co-branded masterclasses

Teach your products in context — a dairy techniques lab, a foodservice menu session.

Product-integrated training

Get your ingredients and equipment into the hands and recipes of working operators.

R&D & menu innovation

Develop and test new applications with CCA chefs and a live audience of buyers.

Talent pipeline

Meet and recruit trained culinary and hospitality professionals from our network.

Something else in mind?

Tell us your goal and we'll design the activation around it.

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Let's grow the food industry together.

Join an upcoming bootcamp, bring us in for a project, or partner your brand with our community.