Weeks 1–2
Learn the kitchen system
Practise safety, core techniques and the timing behind a simple service.
All challenge studios
Eight-week challenge studio
Cooking & hospitality
Bring timing, taste, teamwork and care together for real guests.
Why it matters
A meal makes planning visible. Builders have to budget, sequence work, respond to mistakes, communicate under time pressure and care about another person's experience.
What Builders practise
- Planning and sequencing
- Food safety
- Budgeting
- Taste and iteration
- Hosting and service
Inside the sessions
Ingredient challengesMarket budgetingHeat and timing practiceMenu designGuest experience rehearsals
The eight-week arc
Weeks 3–4
Design the experience
Choose a menu, price ingredients and assign interdependent team roles.
Weeks 5–6
Run the pressure test
Cook to a clock, collect feedback and fix the weakest point in service.
Weeks 7–8
Open the doors
Prepare, host and deliver the final meal as one coordinated team.
Week-eight capstone
A final challenge families will remember.
A timed Builder-versus-parent service challenge ending with a meal presented to invited guests.
Where it happens
Built around the challenge.
Rice-house and indoor preparation areas, with outdoor dining and access to local markets and food systems.