RPLFood and catering
File the service while you can still taste it
Updated 10 November 2026 · Australia
A Saturday service is gone by Monday. The pass photos are on someone else’s phone, and the function sheet is in a binder at the venue. The kitchen door is where that service is written against the qualification while you can still say what you cooked, plated, or supervised.
One service is enough to start
Name the kitchen or the function, the date, and what you were responsible for. A production sheet, a voice note after service, or a photo of the pass before it went out. Certificate II and III in cookery, catering, patisserie, and baking are on this door. The units are the national ones.
Leave the guests out. No faces, no booking names, no card receipts. The dish and the date are the evidence. The customer is not.
What it does not replace
A food-safety supervisor certificate, where the state or the venue requires one, is a separate piece of paper. A liquor licence is not this portfolio. A registered training organisation still assesses the qualification. Competent is only what that assessor records.
If you are a chef who also wants the trades door, commercial cookery is listed there too. The kitchen door is the one written for a pass, not for a roof.
Add one job you already did as evidence. We’ll name what is still missing. That’s how your portfolio starts.
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