Francis Restaurant School

Francis Restaurant School is a socially oriented vocational education model, built on the DUAL training method of the Federal Republic of Germany, in cooperation with the Ho Chi Minh City College of Technology II and the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK). We provide free training in culinary arts and restaurant service to disadvantaged young people, giving them the chance to learn a trade, build a career, and shape a sustainable future.

We turn one opportunity into an independent life.

In 1976, Francis Nguyễn Văn Hội set foot in Germany in the middle of winter, without a penny to his name. His first job was washing dishes in the basement of a Bavarian eatery. Years later, he undertook formal culinary training and became the first Vietnamese person in Bavaria to earn the title of Küchenmeister — Master Chef — before rising to the position of restaurant manager. But he did not stop at his own success.

The core team is largely made up of alumni who have gone through the journey of learning the trade and then working in it — truly empathetic, close in their support yet never indulgent.