Masterminds Catering and Culinary Institute’s Certificate Courses in Hospitality
(Internationally and Nationally Accredited)
MCCI Professional Certificate Course Overview
GENERAL OVERVIEW
These Continuous Program Development Courses are designed to equip the professionals in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry with skills and knowledge for improved productivity and efficiency in the workplace.
Who is it for?
- Skilled and unskilled workers in the hospitality industry
- Entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry
- Hospitality consultants
- Fast food operators
Certificate in Mixology (Non- Alcoholic)
If you want to take a deep dive into the world of Mocktails, Brews and Artistic beverages,
your first steps are with us! At MCCI, we strive to provide a holistic learning experience in
each of our courses and our Mixology Course is no different. In this course you’ll put your creativity to the test and learn the art of mixology and bar tending from the best.
These are:
• Basic bartending
• Basic food safety
• Varieties of cocktails and mocktails recipes
• Workplace communication and so much more!!!
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Tour guiding
This Certificate course aims to help improve human and environmental health and well-being,
by learning the factors that influence how people spend leisure time. At MCCI, we incorporate a
sustainability mindset in order to give a well-rounded understanding of the importance of
preservation in the hospitality industry.
In this course you will learn:
• Principles of tourism
• Tourism marketing
• Tourism and environment
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Hospitality Business Development and Start-Up
Our Certificate in hospitality will help you discover the world of opportunity in the multi-billion dollar hospitality and tourism industry. As the industry is constantly evolving, there is increased need for professionals who have skills in managing businesses within the industry, At Masterminds, we aim to empower you to gain the skill required to compete in the industry.
In this course you’ll learn
• Marketing skills
• How to work with a sustainability team
• Business products
• How to navigate the Marketing environment
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Sustainability and Eco-Tourism
Our Certificate in Sustainability and Eco-Tourism aims to achieve the integration of the principle elements of sustainable tourism, analyzing good management practices, the environmental and social impacts of services, as well as the client’s perception of image and the congruence between the service offered and the
product’s promotion. At Masterminds, we aim to enable our students to :
• measure sustainability of operating businesses,
• improve business environmental and social practices,
• motivate businesses to improve practices and clients to choose sustainable
tourist businesses.
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Event Decoration
Masterminds Event Decoration certificate course provides you with complete training in event
and wedding design. With this course, you’ll learn :
– Decorating and styling venues
– Utilizing floras in event decors
– Design balance & color
– Key elements of event design
– Draping, backdrops, ceilings, lighting, decor
– Tables-cape decoration
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Housekeeping Service Operation
At Masterminds we value the importance of professionalism in all work spaces, even housekeeping!!!
This course will provide detailed analysis of the policies utilized in managing the room division of a hotel. Students will learn how to :
– Maintain a safe hygiene and working environment
– Work effectively as part of a hospitality housekeeping team
– Communication system in work environment
– Identify public areas cleaning agents and equipment
– Clean and maintain public areas
– Service toilet and and bathrooms
– Cleaning commercial and residential windows from inside
– Use of different chemicals and equipment in housekeeping
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Cleaning Service
Appearance matters a lot. Our certificate course in Cleaning will educate you on all aspects of keeping a neat and clean environment. You will learn how to;
-Maintain health, safety and security at laundry and dry-cleaning work environment
-Work effectively as a part of the hospitality team
-Classify items and make up load for cleaning
-Collect soiled items and deliver laundered and cleaned items to customers
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Food Costing and Catering Service
This is a proficiency training in food costing and catering service. If you are in the catering business or about to start, food costing is extremely important as it keeps you abreast of your usage. In this course, you will be educated on:
-Efficient use of resources
-Wastage Control
-Needs-based forecasting and budgeting
-Food Costing
-Catering Procedures
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Housekeeping Operation/Services
This course will provide detailed analysis of the policies utilized in managing the room division of a hotel. Students will learn how to :
– Maintain a safe hygiene and working environment
– Work effectively as part of a hospitality housekeeping team
– Communication system in work environment
– Identify public areas cleaning agents and equipment
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Front Office Operation
This course introduces students and trainees to procedures of managing a front desk, how to lodge in visitors, address guests, take reservations, communicate with the needed authority. Students will learn ethics in hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector, how to make and receive phone calls, how to receive, store, deliver and secure guests, employees ad organisation’s properties and more.
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Customer Service and Relationship Management
This course will provide learners with requisite skills to provide basic customer service. They will be lectured on workplace communication, giving customers a positive impression about themselves and the organization.
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000
Certificate in Hospitality Business and Marketing
Hospitality marketing puts into consideration how different sectors of the hospitality industry like food and drink, accommodation, tourism and travel develop marketing strategies to promote their products and services. This course will enlighten students on the importance of marketing in the hospitality industry.
Duration: 10 Days
Fee: N50,000

MCCI PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA COURSES
GENERAL OVERVIEW
These Continuous Program Development Courses are designed to equip the professionals in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry with skills and knowledge for improved productivity and efficiency.
Who is it for?
- Skilled and unskilled workers in the hospitality industry
- Entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry
- Hospitality consultants
- Fast food operators
Diploma in Cuisine
Course Overview:
This course is suitable for all people who have an interest in cooking and want to improve their existing culinary skills. The intensive structure will equip learners with the knowledge, skills and confidence to go into a career in the food industry, be it small scale catering, chalet cooking or working in a professional kitchen.
Students will learn:
-Knife skills and cutting techniques
-Flavors and seasonings
-Presentation skills
-Bakery and yeast products
-Pastries, desserts and confectioneries
-Garde manger
-Kitchen management and more
Duration: 3 months
Fee: N500,000
Diploma in Tour Guiding & Operation
Course Overview:
This course is designed for students interested in making a career in the Tourism Industry. In this course, students receive extensive knowledge and are trained to manage and conduct tours and equipped with needed itineraries on how to manage and assist tourists from the day of their arrival to the moment of their departure.
Career Paths
– Guides
– Cabin Crew Members
– Travel Agents
– Tourist Officers
– International Tour Manager
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N100,000
Diploma in Bar Operation & Management
Course Overview:
This program teaches the skills needed to smoothly operate a bar without challenges. Students learn;
– Opening and closing procedures
– Inventory Management
– Menu Planning
– Staffing
– Promoting the business
Learners will learn how to manage the drink section of any restaurant, hotel, bar or any establishment that serves drinks.
Duration: 3 months
Fee: N70,000
Diploma in Baking Craft
Course Overview
MCCI’s Baking Craft is a study of the fundamental of baking. This includes all activities associated with baking including pastries, cupcakes, baked desserts, cold desserts, dough, bread, custard, creams and mousses, batters, pies, cheesecakes.
Learners will also learn:
– Baking Terminology
– Measurements
– Baking Equipment
– Mixing
– Decorating
– Baking Techniques
At MCCI we make professional bakers out of our students.
Duration: 3 months
Fee: N250,000
Diploma in Customer Service & Relationship Management
Course Overview
Customer Service & Relationship Management is a competitive field. Every organization is in need of a Customer Service and Relationship Manager who holds a vital part in the run of the industry. Customer Service Personnel are extremely important as they are the foundation of the establishment. MCCI students armed with a CRM Certificate is a force to reckon with in the industry.
Our students learn how to:
– Conduct excellent customer analysis
– Use CRM Tools
– Confidently handle any kind of inquiry or complaint
– Retain and convert clients
– Build a strong database
– Effectively manage the company’s image
Duration: 3 months
Fee: N70,000
Diploma in Food & Beverage Service Operation
Course Overview
This course teaches the fundamental skills required to be kept abreast of the latest trends in the food and beverage industry which include preparing, handling and serving of food and beverage in a hospitality industry.
– Learners will learn:
– The principles and procedures involved in the food process
– Food Safety
– Management of a Food & Beverage Operation.
– Preparing menus and beverage lists
– Health benefits of each ingredient used in food preparation with special attention to allergens
– Equipment
– Production and Service.
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N90,000
Executive Diploma in Event Planning Management & Decoration
Course Overview
Event Planning Management & Decoration skills are required when aspiring to make a break in the hospitality industry. At the end of the course, students are to knowledgeable in:
– General knowledge about planning for an Event
– Managing the Event
– Decorating venues
– Roles and Responsibilities of an Event Manager
– Utilizing Event Planning as a marketing and conversion tool.
At the end of the course, MCCI students will have successfully gathered the skills needed to succeed and excel in event planning.
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N100,000
Diploma in Front Office Operation & Management
Course Overview
This course introduces students and trainees to procedures of managing a front desk, how to lodge in visitors, address guests, take reservations, communicate with the needed authority. Front Office is an important department in a company that comes in contact with clients as well as other departments. A MCCI’s Diploma in Front Office Operation and Management enables the students to become Front Desk Operators, Receptionists, Hostess, Customer Care Representative.
Taking this course will develop and hone your front office skills which include:
– Reservations and Bookings
– Answering of Phone calls and channeling it to the proper authority
– Lodging in visitors
– Addressing guests
– Managing the front desk
– Giving out useful information about the organization
– Interpersonal skills
– Social skills
– Accounting
– Documenting
– Customer Service
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N95,000
Diploma in Housekeeping Operations
Course Overview
This course teaches basic housekeeping skills and its aim is to make students capable mistresses and masters of their home or in the hospitality industry.
Students learn how to:
– Describe the role and responsibilities of a Housekeeper
– The Expectations of a Housekeeper
– Staffing
– Delegation of duties
– Provide efficient service for guests
– Ensure guests are properly served
– Ensure the organization is well organized, stocked with cleaning tools and is well cleaned and groomed
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N100,000
Diploma in Hotel & Catering Operations
Course Overview
This course is designed to teach you all you need to know about the techniques needed for effective management of a hotel and catering services. As the hospitality industry is increasingly becoming competitive, MCCI Certificate in this course will teach you the basics of hotel management, hotel accountancy, catering services, planning, organizing and supervising the quality of food and service rendered.
By the end of the course, students are expected to be knowledgeable in:
– The scope of catering business
– How to accurately give quotations depending on size of the event
– Hotel operations
– Menu Planning
– How to rotate a menu
– Food production
– Food safety
– Housekeeping
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N120,000
Diploma in Leisure & Tourism Management
Course Overview
This course gives students a wider knowledge of the tourism Industry. The course is focused on people, leisure and customer service. It’s an encompassing study in hospitality and tourism with lessons and skills in:
– Hospitality Management
– Travel and Tourism management
– Tour Operations
– Event Management
– Leisure and Tourism Marketing
Duration: 6 months
Fee: N130,000
Executive Diploma in Hospitality Business Development & Entrepreneurship
Course Overview
This course teaches the principles of business development and entrepreneurship. It teaches how to develop business plan for hospitality, introduces students to the concept of hospitality marketing and its importance. It develops business and entrepreneurship in the hospitality industry.
Duration: 1 year
Fee: N180,000
Executive Diploma in Advanced Event Planning & Management
Course Overview
This is an advanced exploration of Event Planning and Management. By the end of the course, students will learn:
– Budgeting
– Event Planning
– Write a professional contract
– Coordination
– Evaluation of Event Venue
– Branding and Designing the Event Venue
Duration: 1 year
Fee: N127,500
Executive Diploma in Advanced Housekeeping Operations Management
Course Overview
This is an advanced course for students in Housekeeping Sector. It has a deep approach to housekeeping operations, emotional intelligence, hospitality management, accommodation operations, hotel accounting. Students with this certificates will have acquired comprehensive knowledge and skills to dominate the Housekeeping part of Hospitality Industry.
Duration: 1 year
Fee: N155,000
For more information, call 08095559996 or email us at mastermindsinst@gmail.com