Internship Host Information
This page is intended for host institutions of interns. The host manual, various forms, and other important resources for hosting the internship are located here.  If you have additional questions regarding the Foodservice Management Internship please contact Lisa Krausman at lisa.krausman@uni.edu

The objective of the internship:

• To attract bright, enthusiastic, resourceful and motivated college students to meet the needs for professionally trained staff in today’s campus dining services.
• To introduce aspiring professionals to the challenging opportunities available in college and university food service, a profession that is experiencing tremendous growth and exciting change.
• To provide on-the-job experiences that will prepare students for responsible positions in college and university food service management after graduation.
• To provide a unique overview while working in a real life setting, seeing firsthand how classroom theory meets the real life work world.  This will provide great insight to your first professional job interview after graduation. 

Responsibilities during internship:
Responsibilities vary greatly from location to location.  Regardless of location, expectations will be to rotate through each area of the operation.  There may be some written work and definitely project work which may include testing and sampling new food products, recipe and menu research, food production quality control, purchasing procedures, ordering food, and sanitation.

Foodservice Management Internship Program (FMI)
is sponsored by NACUFS and offered in cooperation with the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I). In existence for more than 46 years, the program allows student interns to work in a campus foodservice department for eight weeks each summer.

College and University Food Service is an exciting and demanding profession that has evolved from just serving food to serving the customer.  Today’s customer has many more diverse needs than in the past.  To meet these needs, the profession needs to have qualified professionals choose this field as a career.  Finding and retaining these professionals continues to be a challenge the profession faces.  One method that has been used to attract aspiring professionals is to offer an eight-week summer internship in Food Service Management on college and university campuses across the United States.

Summer 2010 information!