Honey Baked Ham Store / & ServSafe@ Certification

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia proudly announces new Honey Baked Ham Store coming to Rio Hill in Charlottesville,VA. Thanks to Chef Ralph Brown Sr, all of the management employees and the owner are now ServSafe@ Certified.

Honey Baked Ham's is the proud sponsor of our Annual Banquet scheduled for Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:30PM, at Westminister Presbyterian Church, 190 Rugby Rd, Charlottesville,VA. All proceeds go to "Toys for Tots" and the Community Builders Network of Virginia /Youth Scholarship fund.

Congratulations / Fry's Spring Station / More good news 2014

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia and Chef Ralph would like to congratulate the Owners, Staff and Management of the new Fry's Spring Station.

The management team of this brand new restaurant in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia are all ServSafe@ Certified thanks to Chef Ralph Brown Sr. The partners of this venture have a long standing commitment to serving food safely.

All of the other management team at their sister restaurant the Downtown Grille also have ServSafe@ Certificates from RBC Institute Inc. We wish them the very best in their continued effort to serving good and safe food to our community.

For more information on the Fry's Spring Station story read the May 2010 issue of the C-ville Weekly. ServSafe@ is a registered trademark of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation / NRA Solutions, LLC

The good news for 2014 is that the Executive Chef at Fry's Spring Station is now also ServSafe@ Certified after completing our class in 2013. Congratulations Chef Power!

Sign up for ServSafe@ / Mail / Paypal

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia wishes to remind clients that they can sign up for the ServSafe@ Food Safety Class by mail or on line via paypal. Just download the application in English or Spanish, write a check, & mail it to RBC Institute, Inc, P O Box 6607, Charlottesville, VA 22906

Or you may scroll to the bottom of this page and using your debit or credit card just follow the prompts for what you want. Or call Chef Brown for instructions at 434-806-9762.

New ServSafe@ Classes/ Fredricksburg, VA

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia proudly announces new ServSafe Classes are schedule for Summer 2010 in Fredericksburg,VA. Camille's Sidewalk Cafe will host ServSafe@ Manager Certification classes every first friday in the month starting June 4, 2010.

The classes will be taught by Chef Ralph Brown Sr, and will start at 8:00AM and last until 5:00PM. Camille's owners were ServSafe certified by Chef Ralph in 2008, and we look forward to offering this opportunity to other Food Service businesses in the area.

You may enroll in the class via credit or debit card by simply scrolling to the bottom of this page, and follow the prompts. Or email Chef Ralph at revrbrown@yahoo.com for questions or more information. Recent graduates of the Downtown Grill class boast 100% passing rate, like Chef Ralph says "nobody fails my class".

PVCC hosts International Food Festival 2010

The Center for faith-based and community learning in Charlottesville, Virginia supports the PVCC International Food Festival with Chef Ralph and students. Chef Ralph and his crew cooked up some "Soul Food" for the event, and made omelette's to order for the hungry guests.

This is an annual event that show cases International cuisine from around the world. Special thanks to Angie and Oscar Jefferson ,Brenda Smith, Terrence Alston, Nathaniel Jackson, and other volunteers and contributors.

The first time Chef Ralph cooked for this event was in 2004 with PVCC student Savithri Lankatilleke to support tsunami relief in Sri Lanka. Savithri graduated in 2005; this years effort was to support the BSA Club at PVCC.

UVa Campus Kitchen serves food to the poor in Charlottesville

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia congratulates "the new UVa Campus Kitchen". The DC Central Kitchen in Washington,D.C. is growing into the Charlottesville Community. Students from the University of Virginia are now doing volunteer work in the Charlottesville Community at the Salvation Army and the Hope House.

Chef Ralph takes local kids to VA Capital Hill

The Center for faith-based and community learning located in Charlottesville, Virginia wishes to thank Chef Ralph for taking kids on trip to the Virginia General Assembly Building in Jan 2010. As a Representative of the Community Builders Network of Va, Rev Brown and Rev Richard Walker were in Richmond, Va for ML King's Birthday Jan 18, 2010

The day long trip included a tour of the General Assembly Building,visiting Senator's and Delegate offices, and a photo opp with local Delegate David Toscano. Then there was a lunch meeting at the beautiful Downtown Omni Hotel where the young folk get to experience fine dinning. This is a Annual event for CBN with the hope of raising more awareness for funding for Youth Prevention Programs in Virginia