Attention Chefs

The USCA will offer Members several levels of online certification through a professional new age technology applied in a state of the art on line testing program. Once Certified and in good standings with the USCA, you will retain your title achieved for 3 years. United States Chef Association certified chefs will have incredible career advantages over non-members and uncertified chefs.

Membership will include a laminated easy to carry photo ID card establishing proof of membership and certification and a monthly newsletter to keep you up to date on all the current happenings.

USCA Memberships

• $50.00 Annual membership fee is required

• Once a member you will receive a laminated wallet photo ID card, a membership certificate, monthly newsletter, full access to the USCA website with membership discounts on Chef Group Rate Insurance, Chef Vacations, Culinary Cruises, Chef Knives, Culinary Gadgets, Specialty Rare Gourmet Food Products, Chef Apparel, Chef Resumes, Chef Contacts, Recipes, Chef Chat Lines, Iron Chef Competitions, Continued Educational Seminars and Invitations to USCA Special Events.

Chef Certifications

• Member USCA, United States Chef Association

• USCA, Certified Executive Sous Chef, CESC

• USCA, Certified Executive Pastry Chef, CEPC

• USCA, Certified Executive Chef, CEC

• USCA, Certified Master Chef, CMC

Career Advantages

Whether a home gourmet, amateur chef, culinary graduate or top professional chef, you are invited to join the world’s largest chef trade association. Once a member you will experience many group discounts and great financial benefits. As an association representing all chefs, unification will prove to be vitally important in setting the authoritative criteria for the chef industry today. The USCA will set the standards for chef qualifications and how a chef obtains his/her professional titles.

In extremely competitive chef job markets today a USCA membership or USCA certification will prove paramount to your career by surpassing your competing chefs in excelling to corporate executive positions more rapidly.

Purchase a Membership

Traditionally in the United States today, a chef can only acquire his/her profession trade title (Sous Chef or Executive Chef, etc.) as dictated by a respectable restaurant, hotel or institution. The United States Chef Association will now change the way chefs achieve their professional titles through certifications in four executive levels. Once a chef has met and passed all required examinations he/she will retain their professional chef titles for the duration of three years at which time a mandatory retest will be required.

Good luck members and welcome aboard the largest culinary arts program to be launched since the James Beard Foundation and the only nationwide chef trade association in the United States today. Uniting chefs will prove that there is significant power in numbers as chefs join together through the United States Chef Association.