Entrepreneur 101
What is Entrepreneur 101: Realizing the American Dream? The Entrepreneur 101 (E-101) program is a high school program that utilizes a school-based restaurant to teach the students entrepreneurial skills and how to own and run a business. As part of the E-101 program, students will undertake responsibility as the owners and operators of this business with the assistance of experienced business professionals and educators. What does the E-101 Program Teach Students? Through E101, students will develop technical and entrepreneurial skills necessary to manage a successful enterprise. Additional relevant curriculum segments have also been created to integrate core courses; such as accounting, math, chemistry, art, English, government, computer applications, layout and design, merchandising and marketing. The hands on experience will give students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they learn in an educational environment to an actual running business. Who has an E-101 Program? Westside High School in Houston and Del Valle High School in Austin participate in the Entrepreneur-101(E-101) program. Westside High School has been branded with an Outback Steakhouse, while Del Valle has been branded with a Carmelo's Italian Restaurant. Both have been built within the school, to serve as a business laboratory for E-101 students. The students take responsibility as the owners and operators of this business with the assistance of experienced business professionals and educators. The Short Version - ‘It’s all about the students’ Develops entrepreneurship Introductory overviews of foodservice, combined with a business model will give way to practical hands on training in food preparation and presentation; creating, designing and implementing a business play; and ultimately to unit supervision and management. Disciplines of the E-101 program include, but are not limited to: Computer and management information (sourcing, forecasting and record keeping) FS Prep culinary curriculum and the Entrepreneur 101 entrepreneurial and business curriculum. Current E-101 locations: Del Valle High School, Austin Carmelo’s Italian Ristorante Westside High School, Houston Outback Steakhouse "When I get older I want to become chef and design new cooking recipes that hopefully everyone in the world will want to cook.” Michael Henderson, ninth grade Westside/Outback E-101 student For more information on how to start an E-101 program at your school, click here.
Serves as a business incubator
Prepares students for the reality of business management
Contributes a laboratory for real life experience
Integrates core curriculum
Motivates students to achieve higher standards
Blends formal education with career-based education
Produces a center point for the high school to incorporate all strands of learning
Incorporates todays technology
Serves as a true business-education partnership
Provides an avenue for industry to give back to education
Encompasses evey level of running a business
Food and Nutrition
Mathematics and Economics (accounting and budgeting)
Science (Food Safety, HAACP system, biology and chemistry)
Art (design and advertising)
Language Arts (creative writing, menu descriptions, employee handbooks)
E-101 incorporates the TRA Education Foundation
