Newrest and Le Cordon Bleu sign a unique global partnership to train Newrest chefs worldwide

Newrest is proud to announce a new global partnership with Le Cordon Bleu, a private higher education institution and internationally recognized for culinary excellence.

Under this three-year agreement, 160 Newrest cooks and chefs selected from the Group’s network of chefs across more than 50 countries where Newrest operates, will benefit from training delivered by Le Cordon Bleu teams every year at several institutes around the world, including Paris, London, Lima, Bangkok, Ottawa and Istanbul.

Knowledge sharing at the heart of our DNA

By partnering with Le Cordon Bleu, a global reference in culinary excellence, Newrest is giving its chefs access to internationally recognized expertise and the highest standards of training. The objective is to continuously enhance the quality of its cuisine, including in the most demanding operational environments.

This partnership fully reflects our ambition to develop our chefs’ skills and provide them personalized sessions. Beyond acquiring new techniques, it will also encourage exchanges between professionals from different culinary cultures, enriching experiences and practices across the Group.

A partnership built over time

The collaboration between Newrest and Le Cordon Bleu has been developing progressively over the past two years. A first successful experience took place during the international Chefs Unlimited seminar hosted at Le Cordon Bleu São Paulo in May 2025, followed by a second collaboration in Paris in early 2026. These experiences highlighted the strong complementarity between the two organizations and their shared vision of culinary excellence and knowledge transmission.

The new three-year global agreement therefore represents the continuation and formalization of an already established relationship, with the ambition of extending this dynamic to Newrest chefs worldwide.

A community of chefs driving innovation

The participants in the program will come from the Newrest Chefs network, an international community that brings together the Group’s culinary talents from around the world. As a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing, this community helps generate new ideas, spread best practices, and continuously improve our culinary standards.

By combining Le Cordon Bleu’s educational expertise with the diversity of Newrest’s global operations, the program will strengthen both culinary fundamentals and the promotion of the unique gastronomic traditions found in each region.

A shared vision of excellence

This partnership is built on a shared belief: culinary excellence is achieved through high standards while respecting local identities and know-how.

The training modules have therefore been designed to help chefs refine their techniques, develop their creativity, and expand their knowledge, while continuing to showcase the culinary heritage and specialties of the countries where they operate.

For Newrest, this partnership is above all an investment in its chefs and in the long-term development of culinary expertise across the Group.

Through this unique partnership, Newrest reaffirms its commitment to investing in its people and making knowledge transmission a key driver in its ambition to deliver, everywhere in the world, high-quality, generous cuisine tailored to local expectations.