News & Events

Dear Graduate of the class of 2020: Great News !Arizona Culinary Institute has secured a date and a venue for your in person graduation ceremony that was delayed due to COVID-19. Even though you have already received your graduation diploma and documentation we still want you to celebrate your achievement with your classmates, family and friends.

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ACI News Letter:  July 2021 From the Chef Christopher Wolf, ccc, cce, csw, cpi Arizona Culinary Institutes Executive Chef Hello to my extended ACI Family.  I hope this newsletter finds you well. To echo the main focal point of the last ACI newsletter, I can confidently say that job opportunities are still widely available and abundant. 

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Hello from Chef Allison Newton and the flour filled Bakeshop at Arizona Culinary Institute! I have always been excited to share my passion for all things baking, cooking, and science with anyone and everyone.  My biggest drive in life has always been answering the question "Why?".  I am a curious about person and wondered- what causes things

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May 2021 Hello ACI family!  I wanted to make a few quick announcements from campus:    First of all, if ANY of you are looking for work, need a job, or having a tough time finding employment, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t struggle out there alone!  Call us, stop by, get in touch.  There are so many employers

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Arizona Culinary Institute ACI will be holding its first in-person graduation ceremony since 2020. The graduation is set for Friday June 11, 2021 at 1: pm. The Ceremony will be held at McDowell Mountain Church and the reception directly follows at 2: pm at the Arizona Culinary Campus. For those graduating students you will be receiving

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Greetings from the kitchens at Arizona Culinary Institute, I’m Chef Kevin Boyle. Since joining ACI two years ago I have been teaching meat/seafood fabrication, saucier and batch cookery and will soon be teaching our Basic Culinary Arts curriculum as well. I am a 1994 graduate of Northern Arizona University’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Management. Like

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Hi there! I’m Chef Erin Coopey, the Director of Education at Arizona Culinary Institute. I teach Food and Beverage Management and Career Development. I’ve always loved cooking and entertaining, but I came to the professional culinary world in a round-about way. While attending university, I worked as a singing waitress and later as a server in

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Hello!  I am Chef Tyler Romine and I teach Basic Culinary Arts at Arizona Culinary Institute.  My passion for the industry traces all the way back to my early childhood days.  My first memories in the kitchen are of helping my mother with dinner preparations at the ripe old age of 3.  I knew early on

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Hello everyone!  Chef Wolf here, just doing a quick check-in.  Things here on campus are going really well, and hopefully things out there are looking up as well.  The only thing I really want to talk about is that there are a LOT of employers that are actively looking to hire cooks/chefs right now.  As things

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Hello Fellow Culinarian Lovers! I am Chef Janet Walter, an instructor at Arizona Culinary Institute. I have been in the restaurant business all of my life. Whether I worked, managed, or owned, my passion and love for the industry wouldn’t let me do anything else. I am a 2003 graduate of ACI. I feel this initial

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