The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia is pleased to announce that "Chef Ralph's Cherry Ave Grill" opened Friday, Sept 20, 2013 at 820 Cherry Avenue here in Charlottesville, VA. 

"Chef Ralph's Place" for short, the Grill will be open from 6AM to 6PM, Monday to Saturday. The focus will be on hot fresh food and good service. Students from RBC Institute will operate the Restaurant daily as a part of their Job-Training. Please, stop in to see us or visit our website at: www.chefralphwww.chefralphcherryavegrill.com . To call the restaurant dial (434) 977-8000 or (434) 9778002.

Alert: All new class location & phone number for RBCI!

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia announces "new class location & new phone number. For the past few years we have held our ServSafe@ Food Safety Classes in Charlottesville at the Center for Non-Profit Excellence on Allied Street, we are no longer there. We thank the folk at CNE for their kind and gracious hospitality with every month we were there.

However, we are now hosted by Liberty Tax Service, 818 Cherry Ave, Charlottesville, VA, and our new number is 434- 242-9984. Please make a note of it if you are scheduled for one of our up coming classes. We have classes in May scheduled for Monday, May 13, and Thursday, May 16, 2013. Thank you for choosing Chef Ralph Brown Sr & RBCI for your food safety training needs.

Congratulations! Chef Trivia Harris, Marketing & Sales Associate / Houston, TX.

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville,Va extends our heart felt Congratulations to Personal Chef Trivia Harris! Chef Harris is our new Marketing & Sales Associate in the great city of Houston, Tx. She is an excellent Personal Chef with many clients in the Houston area, we are excited about having Chef Harris join our team. If you are planning to take the ServSafe@ Manager Certification course in the Houston area you must still sign-up here at our official RBCI site. Our first class in Houston, Tx is scheduled for January 31 & Feb 1, 2013, from 9-5 at the Courtyard Houston - Northwest. For more information about the ServSafe@ Manager Food Safety Course go to www.servsafe.com, thank you!

M&M Lounge & Restaurant "Now Open" / ServSafe@ Certified

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia is proud to introduce to the Charlottesville Community the all new M&M Lounge & Restaurant. This is an absolutely amazing place to have your next party or event with lots of space & excellent food. All of the food & bread is hand made fresh daily on site. This will be a great dinning experience, and the staff & management are ServSafe@ Certified.

ServSafe@ clients are returning for re-certification to RBCI!

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia is proud to report that "St Anne's Belfield School came back to certify more people this year. Along with the Downtown Grille, Frye Spring Pizza, Mel's Cafe, and Hot Cakes for the first time.

We are glad to know that our customers are satisfied enough to send new people to us for food safety training. We must be doing something right, and we plan to keep right on doing it, "Serving Our Very Best, On Client at a Time" Our next class is scheduled for November 12, 2012, 9-5PM at the Center for Non-Profit Excellence, 1701-A Allied St, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

RBC announce Fall & Winter Schedule /"Great Summer 2012"!

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia announces the Fall & Winter 2012 schedule. After a really great summer of full classes we look forward to the Fall starting with our next class scheduled for October 22, 2012, 9-5PM at the Center for Non Profit Excellence, 1701-A Allied Street, here in Charlottesville, VA.

There are two private classes Oct 2&8,2012 with space available if anyone needs a class right away, you may to join us. There are more folk enrolling now than ever before largely due to increased public awareness of the need for food safety certification.

Thank you to the folk from "Country Cookin in Culpeper & Northern Virginia for showing a real commitment to excellence by enrolling four people. Also special mention is in order for the owners of the Downtown Grille & Frye Spring Pizza, they had a class with a dozen folk on location. Our classes for the Winter are scheduled for Nov 12, Dec 10,2012 & Jan 14, 2013, all at the Center for Non Profit Excellence.

We also had a student from First Run Catering which has a number of locations around town, including the First Run Catering Cafe at Piedmont VA Community College. Best wishes to First Run on their new federal contract, we really appreciate the opportunity to serve you.

ServSafe@ Class every week / Summer 2012

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, VA announces Food Safety class every Friday starting June 8,2012 through the last Friday in August. All Persons who register must still take at least two of the four hours session and the exam to complete the course. The big difference is in addition to the once a month all day classes offered at the Center for Non-Profit Excellence, the classes at Virginia Organizing building are in the evening from 5:00PM to 9:00PM. As stated at least eight hours are still require to complete the course with Chef Ralph Brown Sr, but you get to choose what day to start and finish. Also the good news is there are some scholarships available from the Monticello Area Community Action Agency (http://www.macaa.org/)  for low-income Charlottesville residents who qualify. Call Chef Brown for more details on scholarships & discounts, or just scroll to the bottom of this page and sign-up using a debit or credit card.