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SC ProStart Invitational

South Carolina ProStart Invitational - March 3-5, 2024

The South Carolina ProStart Invitational is the state’s premier competition for high school culinary arts and hospitality students. See the success of our past competitions and learn more about participating next year. You can make a difference by becoming a ProStart educator who provides students with the education they need to enter into a viable career.

Competition Details:

The South Carolina ProStart Invitational is an annual competition hosted by the South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Education Foundation (SCRLEF). The competition includes Restaurant Management and Culinary divisions. The Culinary Competition requires students to demonstrate knife skills incorporated into cooking a three-course meal in 60 minutes with only two butane burners, two eight-foot tables, and no electricity or running water. In the Management Competition, students develop a brand new restaurant concept to pitch to a panel of industry and post-secondary judges, complete with critical thinking and verbal presentation rounds.

Competition Rewards:

The top five teams from the culinary and management competitions are awarded generous educational scholarships to help further their careers in the restaurant and food service industry. In 2023, more than $1.4 million in scholarships were awarded to students by the NRAEF and leading academic institutions.

Invitational sponsorships go towards supporting our teams at the National ProStart Invitational and the SCRLEF Scholarship Program.
SCRLEF is a 501(c)3, all donations are tax-deductible as allowable by law. For more information on sponsorship, please email the SCRLA office at info@scrla.org.

Location:

Embassy Suites at the Kingston Resort

8800 Queensway Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29572

Competition Resources:

2024 SCPI Rules

2024 SCPI Agenda

Competition Schedules

Dish Request Form (coming soon)

Recipe, Costing, Menu, and Inventory templates (Word docx)

Hotel information:

Embassy Suites Myrtle Beach Oceanfront at the Kingston Resorts, 8800 Queensway Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29572

Single/Double/Triple/Quad: $149 per night plus tax and fees if booked before midnight on February 1, 2024.

Teams are required to stay at the host hotel.

Reserve your overnight accommodations online here. (link coming soon)

Guests may also book their reservations via phone by calling 1-800-HILTONS

Complimentary parking is included in the hotel room rate. Resort Fee Waived for Group.

Student Waiver Form - (Coming Soon)

Team cancellation/withdrawal by January 24, 2024, 11:59 PM
(Please note if you do not cancel prior to this date there will be a $250.00 per team cancelation fee assessed).