Steven Atkins has been employing his trade qualifications in commercial cookery for 15 years across a range of environments, including a 400 seat function centre, an award-winning a la carte restaurant, a café and the Educational College Restaurant. Over the past 11 years, Steven has delivered all the core units and many of the electives in the Certificates III and IV in Commercial Cookery at TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute.
Steven Atkins has been employing his trade qualifications in commercial cookery for 15 years across a range of environments, including a 400 seat function centre, an award-winning a la carte restaurant, a café and the Educational College Restaurant. Over the past 11 years, Steven has delivered all the core units and many of the electives in the Certificates III and IV in Commercial Cookery at TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute.
Steven’s teaching extends beyond the institute’s campus. Over the past five years he has designed a number of healthy eating plans for the local Indigenous community, with the intention of reducing Type 2 diabetes through the preparation of low sugar diets.
Noting the financial pressures faced by some students, Steven led a resource development project to provide Hospitality and Commercial Cookery students with resources developed in-house and supplied on a USB, which cost each student $3 – a considerable saving on the previous cost of up to $300.