{"id":145412,"date":"2026-01-22T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145412\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:43:23","slug":"high-school-students-gain-culinary-skills-at-roc-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145412\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students gain culinary skills at ROC Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roc.kernhigh.org\/apps\/pages\/cafe-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Regional Occupational Center Cafe<\/a> has reopened, offering students from various high schools hands-on training in a real-life work setting.<\/p>\n<p>The cafe, located at 501 South Mount Vernon, serves up delicious dishes three days a week, Wednesday through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Students take on roles as chefs, prep cooks, and servers, gaining skills for culinary careers or other fields. When the restaurant is closed, they continue their training and education.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A hamburger and fries are ready to be served at the ROC Cafe. (Steve Virgen, KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8a5956af-91c9-43da-ba54-d9fc1934610e-Image.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A hamburger and fries are ready to be served at the ROC Cafe. (Steve Virgen, KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee Lawrence, a senior at Frontier High School, says she enjoys working at ROC Cafe and interacting with customers as a server. She is planning to study radiology and believes the social skills will help her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Regional Occupational Center Cafe has reopened, offering students from various high schools hands-on training in a real-life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-145412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}