Hospitality Ohio wishes you a Happy Holiday Season!
Newsletters will resume after the new year!
ProStart Invitational Registration is Open!
Register before December 19 to choose your time slot. Times will be selected in the order that registrations are received. We have one school registered so far... Polairs Career Center. Everything you need is in the Educator Portal HERE.
It's Timeeee... for Gingerbread!
We want to see your creations. Submit them to the Virtual Gingerbread bash competition. Registration is open- and it's FREE! Wind down before the holiday with this fun and simple competition. Create any structure out of your homemade gingerbread recipe. Submissions will be accepted from December 1st through January 9th. Only 3 Schools have registered to compete so far: Apollo, Stow Munroe, and Tri-County Career Center. All needed competition documents (rules, score sheets, and example recipe) as well as event registration are available via the Educator Portal here. Password: 2025*ProStart
Interested in knowing what trends to keep an eye on next year?
The National Restaurant Association has released its 2026 What's Hot Culinary Forecast, available here.
Let's get Cheesy! Mac & Cheese is back with a new twist!
See who will prepare the tastiest mac in Ohio. The Ohio ProStart and Ohio Hospitality CTSO Mac & Cheese Competition, hosted by The American Dairy Association and The Hilton Columbus Downtown, is returning with a new twist! The initial competition will be held virtually, and the top three teams will move on to compete live at the Ohio ProStart Invitational on March 10th. Only two schools have signed up: Tri-County Career Center and Vanguard. A minimum of 10 teams must be registered to move forward with the competition. Rules and registration are located in the educator portal here.
Leadership Lab Rescheduled!
The Ohio Hospitality CTSO's Leadership Lab will be held in April. This event is a requirement of the Ohio Hospitality CTSO. Registration will open in January after the winter holiday.
CTSO Community Service Events Due During December!
If you are enrolled in the Ohio Hospitailty CTSO, December is Community Service month. You are required to execute a community service event during the month. If you need ideas, please consult the guidebook HERE. When you are ready to submit your community service event, please do so HERE. Check out the schools below that have conducted thier community service projects for ideas!
Normandy Culinary Arts (PCSD) Junior and Senior students volunteered their time on a Saturday this month to support our district's PTSA Craft Fair held at Normandy High School. The students made, packaged, and sold baked goods and other items. They also helped to serve food to the hundreds of Parma residents who attended this year's craft fair.
Apollo Career Center chose Toys for Tots as thier December community service project, conducting a toy drive from December 1st to 11th. They had two large donation boxes brought from the Salvation Army and put one in the cafe and the other in the main office. They made flyers and announced this project to staff and students. Apollo did a lab challenge, and the lab that brought in the most toys won a make-and-take cookie day with the culinary students on Friday, December 12! They also had a raffle during lunches on Friday, December 5, selling over 300 one-dollar tickets and raffled off a $50.00 Visa gift card donated to them from one of thier advisory members. Apollo also donated thier tip money from the first two weeks in December, and in doing this, collected over $800.00 to shop for toys at Walmart, as well as being able to donate two large boxes of toys from staff and students! This was a great event, and they were able to include almost all staff and students at their school!
Tolles Career & Technical Center students prepped/baked lasagna & made-from-scratch garlic bread and donated it to the local Plain City Police Department and the Ohio Highway Patrol Post so the officers and staff could have a warm meal before the holidays.
Give your Students the Scholarship Application to work on over Winter Break!
Free money for your student's education! We have ZERO applications. Please have your students fill out the Ohio Hospitality Scholarship Application HERE.
Educator Portal
The new educator Portal password is 2025*ProStart. Let us know if there are additional resources you would like to see.
Ohio Hospitality CTSO
All Student Waivers must be completed to use Ohio Hospitality as your CTSO. Link to the waiver is HERE
CTSO Handbook is HERE
Submit your CTSO Chapter Leaders so that we can send out the online training. The link to submit is HERE
The following schools still need to submit thier student leaders ASAP:
Columbus Downtown, Dater, Ehove, Lancaster, and Lorain.
2025-2026 Calendar
If you haven’t seen the calendar yet – click HERE
