West Boca Raton Community High School Culinary Academy Students To Run Café

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West Boca Raton Community High School Culinary Academy Students To Run Café

Article Submitted By: Dale King, City Editor

School, business and restaurant officials have officially kicked off the drive to turn a vacant, 600-square-foot room in West Boca Raton Community High School into the Calaloo Café.

Officials from the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce want businesses in the Boca area to give the school equipment– chairs, tables, stools, a hostess station, beverage service areas, single booths, double booths and–most importantly, labor– to equip the eating spot. Students who attend the Culinary Academy of West Boca Raton Community High School will run the Calaloo Café– giving them “front of the house” training, such as running a cash register, making change and ordering food– the tasks a restaurant operator must handle.

Burt Rapoport, owner of the Rapoport Restaurant Group, has stepped forward with the first donation– 40 chairs from Henry’s in Delray Beach, which he is remodeling. The Chamber recently held a kickoff at Bogart’s– another of Rapoport’s Restaurants– to announce the creation of the restaurant at West Boca High.

Rapoport will be joining the Community Academy Advisory Board (CAAB) comprised of experts in the culinary field as well as successful business and community leaders.
Already, students are gearing up for the café’s arrival. Students in the drafting and design academy worked on the motif for the restaurant and then turned it over to a professional architect, Marc Geftman of Turnkey Concepts.

Article Submitted By: Dale King, City Editor

School, business and restaurant officials have officially kicked off the drive to turn a vacant, 600-square-foot room in West Boca Raton Community High School into the Calaloo Café.

Officials from the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce want businesses in the Boca area to give the school equipment– chairs, tables, stools, a hostess station, beverage service areas, single booths, double booths and–most importantly, labor– to equip the eating spot. Students who attend the Culinary Academy of West Boca Raton Community High School will run the Calaloo Café– giving them “front of the house” training, such as running a cash register, making change and ordering food– the tasks a restaurant operator must handle.

Burt Rapoport, owner of the Rapoport Restaurant Group, has stepped forward with the first donation– 40 chairs from Henry’s in Delray Beach, which he is remodeling. The Chamber recently held a kickoff at Bogart’s– another of Rapoport’s Restaurants– to announce the creation of the restaurant at West Boca High.

Rapoport will be joining the Community Academy Advisory Board (CAAB) comprised of experts in the culinary field as well as successful business and community leaders.

Already, students are gearing up for the café’s arrival. Students in the drafting and design academy worked on the motif for the restaurant and then turned it over to a professional architect, Marc Geftman of Turnkey Concepts.