When junior Kendall Kahn walked into the kitchen, she was told by her classmates that they were short on desserts for their biggest catering event in the Culinary Magnet. Scrambling from oven to oven, Kahn and her classmates rushed to create 14 more desserts for the 100 guests. Despite the hectic environment, Kahn couldn’t help but relish the adrenaline rush she felt from it all.

The Culinary magnet catered for a group employees from the Omni Hotel that the Hospitality program invited.

“We often on our catering have little mishaps that go wrong, but this catering went really well and that was exciting,” Kahn said.

Culinary magnet teacher chef Devin Niederhauser said the catering was a success for him and his students.

“We prepared enough that they knew exactly what my expectations were, and their plans for themselves on how to accomplish that,” Niederhauser said.

Sophomore Cesley Hunt said in their last catering, students weren’t prepared or focused as they should be.

“I feel like experienced people are doing the serving this time, and we have a good line up front,” Hunt said.

Niederhauser said compared to their last catering, he took a bigger leadership role by running a classic French kitchen.

“I am the captain of the ship, steering to safety, making sure everybody’s on task and giving them call outs and getting responses,” Niederhauser said.

He said he wanted to “hammer in” how important this event was for the Culinary magnet to show off their skills by telling his students about J.J. Pearce’s new kitchen.

“I showed the pictures of the other kitchen and I said we can do better than them with what we have,” he said.

Hunt said they got to practice making different types of cuisine and perfecting what they already know.

“It is really helpful because we do learn all these skills in this class, but when we get to take it to a catering event, we get to put all those skills to use,” Kahn said.