Mission statement

The Australian Culinary Federation is the national organization representing profesional chefs, cooks and apprentices.

We seek to participate and advise in the establishment, maintenance and improvement of national and international culinary standards.

We are committed to develop the personal skills and knowledge of our members.

We enhance "espirit de corps" amongst our members and industry.

On site hospitality training.

Hospitality competition training.

Kitchen and restaurant consultancy and bistro performance assessments.

Demonstrations and lectures in special culinary skills.

Setting up and operating a small accommodation operation.

Preparing a submission for awards or competitions.

What is WACS?

The World Association of Cooks Societies, or WACS in short, is a global network of chefs associations first founded in October 1928 at the Sorbonne in Paris. At that first congress there were 65 delegates from 17 countries, representing 36 national and international associations, and the venerable August Escoffier was named the first Honourary President of WACS. Today, this global body has 72 official chefs associations as members, with three that just joined at the 31st World Congress in March. The biennel congress is a hallmark tradition of WACS and has been organised in over 20 cities across the world throughout its illustrious 74-year history, WACS is managed by an elected presidential body consisting of the WACS president, vice president, treasurer, secretary general and ambassador honourary president, as well as a board of continenal directors that look after the regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas. A separate committee manages all culinary competition-related affairs.