Escoffier Membership Requirement 2010

• Benefits of Professional Chefs Membership

  1. - Diploma of certification
  2. - Red ribbon, - Chef jacket with O.I.D.A.E. delegation china logos
  3. - Discount on the "guide culinaire" French Version of A. Escoffier
  4. - Year Chapter dinner Gala Diner at Escoffier discount price
  5. - Chefs Pciture and Menu of Chapter
  6. - Listed at our National Chefs Registry
  7. - Culinary Excellence through exchange of knowledge amongst your contemporaries
  8. - Networking with worldwide colleagues of Ordre International des Disciples d'Auguste Escoffier



• Senior Individual Membership

  • For professionals whose primary business activity is culinary related, rank over sous-chef



• Junior Individual Membership

  • For professionals whose primary business activity is culinary related from commis to chef de partie.
  • Active Chefs member (red ribbon) "Disciples d'Auguste Escoffier" - Senior (Sous-chef to Executive chef) Chef directing a kitchen, an establishment such as Restaurant or an Hotel, with a cooking diploma and must show, regarding his professional career, his implication of development of the French or international cuisine. - Junior (Commis to Chef de partie) Chef active in an establishment such as a Restaurant or an Hotel and must show his interest in the French or international cuisine. Can only be named if sponsored by his/her chef (member of the O.I.D.A.E., red ribbon)



• Acquisition of the Membership

  • In order to become an active member of the association, one must:
    1. Be major and enjoy all civil rights.
    2. Be domiciled and/or be able to exercise one's professional activity in one of the departments of China. Constituting the Region
    3. Adhere with the present statutes and with the disposals of the rules of procedure.
    4. To hold interest with the gastronomy, hotel and tourism industry;
    5. To engage oneself to the realization of the objectives pursued by the Association and to not use the membership for personal or lucrative ends;
    6. Formulate by written means an application for admission, signed by the applicant and followed by the signature of two sponsors, founding members and/or active members of the Association.
    7. Be authorized by the Mother Association, represented by its Board of Governors, in which the decision in the matter isdiscretional and not prompted.



• Acquisition of the Membership

  • The association membership can be lost by:
    1. The notified resignation by a registered letter with acknowledged receipt or by a letter given directly to the association's president.
    2. The death of actual members.
    3. The disablement, for whatever reason, of the corporate body, or of its declaration in a condition of rectification or judicial liquidation.
    4. The pronounced exclusion by the International Order of Disciples of Auguste Escoffier's board members, Mother Association, or by the association's Administrative Council, for serious intentions such that the offences to the present statutes or the association's rules of procedure, or, by not paying annual fees, the concerned party having beforehand been invited to offer his or her means of defence