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Becoming a Personal Food Shopper? Here's the IFA course

November 17, 2020
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Who is the Personal Food Shopper?

The Personal Food Shopper is today a highly sought-after profession, but also a benchmark for local tourist boards, who rely on him to lead "guests," from all over the world, on a discovery of itineraries designed on flavors Of a place.
He is responsible for leading us on an exciting journey, made up of flavors but also stories, tales, traditions of a territory and its inhabitants.
The Personal Food Shopper Is a real expert connoisseur of food and wine excellence of an area and has a network of contacts with small producers, short supply chains, and small gastronomic companies.

Where does he find employment?

The Personal Food Shopper can find employment with wineries, tourism companies, hotels, event organization agencies or offer themselves as freelancers.

What are the skills of a Personal Food Shopper?

The Personal Food Shopper Has knowledge that is both specific and cross-cutting:

  • makes sure to make the tourist's experience unique;
  • possesses perfect geographical, historical and food and wine knowledge of the area;
  • Has perfect knowledge of the supply chains;
  • Builds, manages, maintains and engages a network of specific and selected contacts;
  • always designs new routes and experiences to offer guests;
  • knows typical markets, historic stores, and renowned bistros;
  • Provides gastronomic advice;
  • accompanies food lovers on tours and tasting events;
  • Offers advice on the purchase of typical products;
  • is a storyteller of product stories, trivia, anecdotes and thus has strong communication skills;
  • Has strong problem solving skills to cope with any last-minute unexpected events.

Italian Food Academy: the course to become a Personal Food Shopper

Far from being a profession that can be done improvisationally, for become a Personal Food Shopper, in addition to having an innate passion for food and the traditions of a region or area, must possess and acquire specific skills.

Italian Food Academy, training institution in the haute cuisine sector, catering and food communication, organizes a specific course for those who intend become a personal food shopper, both in classroom and online versions.
The course includes several stages:

  1. Preparatory lessons with home study on texts and online platform
  2. 20-hour online course to the HACCP Certificate of 3°level
  3. German Language Online Course
  4. Classroom phase lasting 40 hours + educational outing
  5. 150-hour internship (for those under the age of 40.

The educational program of IFA's Personal Food Shopper course.

The educational program addresses a number of dedicated topics:

  • Legislation and copyright
  • The Creative Writing
  • Job classification
  • Food and Wine Mapping
  • Agricultural and food production
  • Sustainability and biodiversity
  • Communicate and narrate
  • Tourism sociology
  • The tourist point of view
  • How to organize Food and wine events
  • Web Communication and Facebook page creation
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Marketing plan (B2B)
  • Communication plan

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Excellence is now more affordable

Thanks to the Chef Bonus you can get a credit of up to 6,000 euros for expenses incurred in 2021 and 2022 for your professional training.  

Starting February 27, 2023, it will be possible to apply to the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy for the Chef Bonus.

WHAT IS IT?

Bonus Chef 2023 consists of a 40% tax credit (up to a maximum of 6,000 euros) recognized on expenses related to the restaurant industry for individuals engaged in the activity of professional chef at hotels and restaurants.

TO GET THE BONUS:

- you must have incurred, between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022, one or more of the expenses deemed eligible for the benefit

- one must be a resident or established of the state territory;

- Applicants must be in the full enjoyment of civil rights.

ELIGIBLE EXPENSES:

- Purchase of durable capital goods (high energy class machinery for food storage, processing, processing and cooking, professional tools and equipment for catering)

- Participation in professional development courses.

HOW THE 2023 CHEF BONUS WORKS

The 40% credit can be used for offsetting by F24, which must be submitted to the Internal Revenue Service. The credit is exempt from IRPEF and IRAP. 

It is also possible to assign the credit with the transfer of the facility to other parties, including credit institutions and other financial intermediaries. 

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