MilitaryChefs.com's Certification Levels

MILITARY CULINARIAN (MC1) - An entry level military culinary professional.

MILITARY SOUS CHEF (MC2) - A military chef capable of supervising a shift in a foodservice operation.

MILITARY CHEF (MC3) - A military chef capable of supervising and performing all food production in foodservice operations
including banquet halls, catering companies, institutional foodservice, colligate food service, business style food service,
hotels, clubs, hospitals, noncommercial food service and hold positions as personal chefs on yachts, private homes, or hotels.

MILITARY EXECUTIVE CHEF (MC4) - A military chef capable of performing as a department head responsible for all culinary
aspects in foodservice operations including banquet halls, off site catering,  institutional foodservice, colligate food service,
business style food service, noncommercial food service, clubs, or the owner of a foodservice operation.

MILITARY MASTER CHEF (MC5) - The best of the best and few and far between, Military Master Chefs possess the highest
degree of military and civilian food service knowledge. They excel in all aspects of the business and culinary side of
foodservice. They have proven themselves as executive chefs through the ACF certification process, culinary competition
success, civilian college education, military advancement, leadership and food service management experience. During their
time in service to the country, Military Master Chef’s have conquered every aspect of military food service and have brilliantly
set themselves up for success in retirement.
MilitaryChefs.com's Certification

This program offers you the opportunity to document, and certify your food service skills and
knowledge. Using your previous advancements and accomplishments, we are able to verify and
rank you in five separate categories of achievement.  Each of these ranks coincides with the
stages in your career. Successfully completing each rank will lead you along the path to
becoming one of the few who have dominated all military food service, the Military Master Chef,
the best of the best.  


Click here to view the Path to Military Master Chef
And thus begins the long and difficult journey, salted with stress and peppered with passion
that is the path of the professional chef.  We must constantly learn and evolve.  And that, my
fellow military chefs, is the true difference between a "chef" and a "cook".
- Staff Sergeant Guy Winks