"You have to be able to endure loneliness, to be able to sink your heart, and your skills must be lonely on this road." The spirit of craftsmanship is to keep studying and loving. The words of Teacher Yao, director of the food teaching and research department of Shanghai Trade School, are the professional spirit that Lu Xiaofei, a "post-00s" girl, remembers.
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Lu Xiaofei, a student of Shanghai Trade School, was the champion of the second "Four Brands" Vocational Skills Competition "Fancy Coffee Making" in Shanghai, and recently won the crown at the final of the 3rd Shanghai Coffee Masters.
Coffee has three flavors: bitter, sour, and sweet. The production of a cup of coffee must go through multiple processes such as selecting green beans, roasting, grinding, and extraction, and the same is true of the "coffee life" experienced by Lu Xiaofei.
"Want to get new skills,
Discover the love of coffee"
Lu Xiaofei's initial specialty was baking. She passed the selection for the 2019 World Championships baking program, but after two months of training, she was transferred to the Pastry major. "The head teacher said to me, 'I transferred you because I believed in you, and I could do a good job wherever I went!'" Lu Xiaofei introduced that at that time, two months of West Point training exercised her mentality.
This summer, in order to prepare for the "four brands" vocational skills competition, Lu Xiaofei once again stepped into the training room to challenge the new field of coffee. She chose coffee because she wanted to "get a whole new skill." Unexpectedly, "under the attempt, I found my love for coffee." ”
"Ignorant little white" grows rapidly
For Lu Xiaofei, the link of "pulling flowers" in coffee production is the bottleneck she encountered in the process of challenge.
Try again and again, and if you fail, you will come again; if you succeed, you will continue. In the three months of preparing for the "Four Brands" vocational skills competition, she could not remember how many times she practiced, but she remembered that at least one kilogram of coffee beans were used every day, and the most used one kilogram a day was equivalent to making 120 cups of coffee.
The school gave the greatest support. In addition to the guidance of professional teachers, the school also equips students with the same production equipment as the café. The training room collects more than 70 kinds of coffee beans from different production areas, smells, makes, tastes, innovates, and when he first entered, he was still a "ignorant little white" Lu Xiaofei, who grew rapidly in such an environment.
It is a "dark horse" and a "back wave"
For shanghai trade school, lu Xiaofei, who won the championship, is one of the outstanding students. The school said that the school strives to create an integrated talent training model of "teaching, training, training and competition", takes the World Championship as an opportunity to integrate the concept and advanced technical standards of the World Skills Competition into daily teaching and education practice, and establishes a curriculum system and teaching method system that meets international standards.
He Xiaocong, deputy director of the food teaching department of Shanghai Trade School, said that Shanghai's living standards have been continuously improved, coffee culture has gradually entered the hearts of the people, coffee sales have continued to grow at an alarming rate, and many stores have also begun to implement a compound business model that integrates western pastries, coffee and light meals. This change in consumption has led to a shift in the demand for food talents in enterprises. In this context, the school fully examined the coffee market and coffee courses, and introduced the "International Barista Blender" vocational qualification certification system in the City of London industry in the United Kingdom to the food major that was originally based on baked food.
It is understood that the course not only has coffee production, but also includes coffee tasting, beverage research and development, customer service and other teaching content that meets the needs of society. At the same time, after assessment and certification, students can also obtain an internationally recognized vocational qualification certificate.
Some people say that Lu Xiaofei is a "dark horse", but she prefers to describe herself as the "back wave" of the coffee industry. She said that her "back wave" is because she can jump higher on the shoulder of the "front wave".