New Zealand Certificate in Hospitality (Level 3)**

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New Zealand Certificate in Hospitality (Level 3)**

Level 3

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New Zealand Certificate in Hospitality (Level 3)**

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• Locations and dates

No start dates are currently available. Register to be informed when new dates are added.

• Study options

Full time

• Length

17 teaching weeks plus 2 weeks of study break

• Total credits

60

• Fees

2027: Zero fees

A Student Service Fee applies (2026; $2.50 per credit).

Fees listed are for each year of the programme, indicative only and may vary with course selection.

View course details for individual fees.

• National qualification code

NZ4366

Kick-start your career in Hospitality with real-world learning.

• ** Subject to NZQA approval.
• Register your interest to start your hospitality study in February 2027.

Learn in NMIT’s café environments, commercial training kitchens, and restaurant as you build confidence in preparing food, making beverages, and delivering welcoming customer service.

Whether you’re leaving school, changing direction or already working in a junior hospitality role, this programme will help you develop practical skills and professional behaviours for working in the industry.

Practical learning and workplace experience

Right from the start, you’ll be learning about the logistics of great service both to the customers at your tables and to the team of chefs you’re supporting.

You’ll complete a minimum of 40 hours of work-based learning embedded across the programme. Activities may include restaurant and café service, catering, events, hospitality simulations and industry engagement, with external workplace experiences where available.

Throughout the programme, you’ll develop teamwork, communication, problem-solving and professional skills, alongside safe and sustainable hospitality practices.

What you'll learn

Across four compulsory courses, you’ll gain a broad foundation in hospitality service, café beverages and basic cookery, plus the teamwork and communication skills employers look for.

• Hospitality Service Operations: Develop customer service, communication and teamwork skills. Learn to use hospitality workplace systems and technology, follow operating procedures and respond to everyday customer and workplace issues.
• Food Service: Learn to prepare for and deliver food and beverage service, use table-service equipment and techniques, and apply food safety and workplace procedures. Build your product knowledge and confidence providing professional, welcoming service.
• Café Beverage Service: Develop skills to prepare, present and serve espresso coffee and alternative café beverages. Learn to safely operate, clean and maintain café equipment, and apply product knowledge, customer service and manaakitanga.
• Basic Cookery: Build foundation skills in food preparation and cookery within a commercial training kitchen. Learn safe knife techniques, ingredient preparation and portioning, basic cooking methods, food presentation, kitchen hygiene and safe equipment use.

Throughout the programme, you’ll be guided by the values of manaakitanga (care and hospitality towards others), whanaungatanga (building relationships and a sense of belonging) and kaitiakitanga (guardianship and care for people, place and resources).

Employment and further study

NMIT’s hospitality programmes are designed with our local industry in mind. Where your timetable allows, you may be able to fit paid hospitality work around your study and put the skills you’re building to use straight away.

Build skills for entry-level roles such as café assistant, food service assistant, front-of-house team member or kitchen hand. Hospitality skills can be applied across cafés, restaurants, catering operations, accommodation providers and other food service settings.

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