Turn Your Passion for Cooking Into Real Income
Learn the skills, systems, and mindset professional chefs use to build careers, side businesses, and thriving food companies. From first paid dish to full-time freedom.
Learn from a Chef Who Has Actually Done It All
Chef Alan Bergman is a Certified Executive Chef with over 40 years of professional experience as a chef, instructor, caterer, restaurant owner, and consultant.
Executive Chef & Owner of a successful catering company for 16+ years, servicing events from intimate private dinners to productions for thousands of guests
Executive Chef & Owner of ABC Lobster Company, launched during the COVID pandemic and grown through disciplined execution and fundamentals
Associate Instructor at Johnson & Wales University for more than two decades, training future chefs and food professionals
Executive Chef for the American Embassy in London, overseeing dining operations serving 2 to 2,000 guests, including ambassadors and executive-level functions
Executive Chef in London’s Bleeding Heart Restaurant Group, including a Michelin-rated French restaurant, bistro, historic crypt, and tavern
Built When Others Closed
When the pandemic disrupted the food industry, Chef Alan didn’t retreat. He built ABC Lobster Company from the ground up—applying the same fundamentals he teaches today:
Control
Systems
Consistency
Decision-making under pressure
While many food businesses struggled, ABC Lobster Company grew sales and profits year after year.
This is the difference between cooking skill and operational mastery. Learn how you can build a successful food business.
From Passion to Paid With Real Skills Behind It
ABC Catering Academy is for people who want to:
Turn cooking into real income
Build confidence they can charge for
Create freedom through food—not burnout
Whether your goal is:
A profitable side business
A catering operation
A restaurant or food brand
Or professional-level mastery
The fundamentals are the same—and they’re teachable
That’s why ABC Catering Academy doesn’t teach shortcuts.
It teaches what actually works—in real kitchens, with real stakes.
Where Professional Skills Become Personal Freedom
Chef Alan has helped chefs thrive in restaurants, catering, private dining, and their own food businesses. Chef Alan has trained and worked alongside chefs who have gone on to succeed in:
World-class restaurants
Diplomatic and institutional kitchens
Large-scale events and catering operations
Private dining and high-end clients
Their own independent food businesses
Across every environment, one thing holds true:
The fundamentals work everywhere.
That’s why ABC Catering Academy isn’t about shortcuts or gimmicks.
It’s about teaching the skills, confidence, and systems that allow chefs to build careers, create income, and earn the freedom to cook on their own terms.
Real kitchens.
Real skills.
Real paths to independence.
Turn Cooking into Real Income
