Oyster Essentials:
Training Courses for Culinary Seafood Professionals
Oyster South leads a server training at Henrietta Red in Nashville, TN, explaining how oysters are farmed, how varieties differ and helping servers answer customers’ questions
Let your oyster compass be your guide
Oyster South, funded by the National Marine Fisheries Saltonstall-Kennedy program, is able to offer free training courses for servers at seafood restaurants from Maryland to Texas and select cities around the country. Oyster South is partnered with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, University of Georgia and the University of Florida.
With the growth of oyster farming in the southern US, there’s been an explosion in the number of varieties available. Of course, your customers’ questions have also increased - and they are asking your shuckers and servers!
To help, we offer Oyster Essentials to seafood servers and shuckers to help them 1) explain how and why oyster varieties differ 2) understand the sustainability of oyster farming and 3) answer customers’ questions about oysters. We believe that confident, knowledgeable servers will increase your oyster sales.
Our course is typically delivered during the pre-dinner server session, though we can coordinate other times. Ranging from 20 minutes to an hour, we can tailor the training to the time you allot. The training is highly interactive and informal, with participants actively engaged with comments and questions.
Interested in learning more or seeing about arranging a training? Contact Bill Walton for more information.
