Culinary Arts Degree or Restaurant management Degree?

Both of them can help you to be very successful as the culinary arts degree will teach you new techniques and inspire you to create new recipes using combinations of foods that you may have never thought of before. The business degree will teach you money management as well as how to effectively manage people and various situations that even doing assistant managing may not teach you, not to mention how to set up your business and quarterly taxes, etc. If possible, try to do both, but if not and you are an amazing cook, then do the business degree, if you can make just what you have learned working in restaurant chains then pursue the culinary degree because you will need the edge of new and inventive recipes. If you do not offer something different to your target market, you will most likely not succeed. The business degree I would get from a university, the culinary arts degree I would get at a culinary arts school like Le Cordon Bleu. Good luck to you, Susu

If you go to a culinary institute,be very careful.I attended a nationally advertised culinary instute and it was the most horrifying experience i have ever been thru.they will hype themself and promice the world to you to get you to sign up.most important they were very sloppy with the financial aid thru sallie mae,because of schools incompetent financial aid workers my student loan bill is about double than what it should be and they had instructors that were under qualified.and having medical issues with my eyes it damm near took an act of congress to let me use books on tapes even with a letter from my dr.Be very careful especially with student loans.I do regret going thru the institute check apprenticeship programs or community colleges.keep note pad and write down questions you may have because as you are signing up or checking institutes it is very fast paced and a lot of questions will slip your mind .JUST BE CAUTIOUS And CHECK OUT ALL DETAILS VERY CAREFULLY> GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

I agree with Susu. I think if you can't do both and you want to manage and own I'd go for the Restaurant management Degree and then take some chef food and wine classes on the side to gain a better understanding of the art part. If you can do both then do both! Good luck in your career