28/09/2026
And just like that… our Rudy’s off to baking school! 🥹👨🍳🍰
Today he starts his 10-week Diploma in Patisserie at Ashburton Chefs Academy, where he’ll be developing his skills across patisserie, cakes, pastries, desserts, chocolate work and plenty more.
We’re SO excited for him to learn, grow and come back armed with loads of new ideas and skills that we can bring into K&C and use to elevate everything we already serve.
We’ve always been really serious about things being freshly baked and made properly in-house, and this is another step in investing in that. We want to keep pushing the quality, creativity and standard of what comes out of our kitchen rather than ever taking the easy route.
Once he’s finished, he’ll be joining our amazing baker Kathryn, alongside our newest baker Stephanie, who joins the team this week!
Kathryn has done an incredible job building and maintaining the standard of our bakery, and so much of what you see on our counters every day is down to her hard work, creativity and ridiculously high standards. We’re very excited to finally give her some very well-deserved extra pairs of hands.
With Rudy developing his skills, Stephanie joining the team and Kathryn continuing to lead the way, we’re so excited to see what the three of them can create together.
It’s all going off at K&C… 🤭🍰
Good luck Rudy — go smash it! We can’t wait to see everything you learn and bring back with you. 🤍