Yunona Gogia has been working as a chef and Culinary Arts specialist as well as Hospitality & Business Management teacher for more than 10 years. She has an MA with major in Journalism and Japanese Linguistics from the Moscow State University, and she also acquired an AHLA Hospitality Management Diploma in Vancouver, BC.

She lived and worked for long periods of time in Tokyo, Japan, and Bloomington, US and traveled to Turkey, Spain and Hungary. This experience helped her acquire global perspective and also become seriously interested in ethnic food and different culinary traditions and artistic food presentation.

Yunona has profound practical knowledge of Hospitality industry, Food & Beverages services in particular, because it has been 7 years since she took the responsibility of working as an Operations Manager for Yumico Catering Company. She has vast experience of developing and implementing operations and marketing plans and strategies, and planning and executing large scale events. She participated in TV and radio programs in Japan and the US and also appeared as a guest in the City Cooks CTV program.

Her knowledge of fine cooking and Culinary Arts is based on childhood experience of growing up in Georgia, where good food is fact of life, festive occasion and communication tool. She considers herself a grandma’s apprentice – taking early lessons from her grandma, who was famous cook and culinary inspiration. She credits her ethnic food knowledge and passion to hearty and artistic presentation to years of traveling and living in foreign countries.

Today she works as a catering company chef and manager and also teaches Food and Beverage Management, Food Safety, and Business Management at a college. She likes to combine practical experience with education because it helps to manage catering operation, ensure food safety, proper handling of ingredients and, on the other hand, it works well to justify the value of the learning transfer – she can teach from experience.

After all, everything we know is expressed in what we can do. To have an understanding of what we can do you’ll have to try Yumico Catering’s Services.

Among our clients are VanCity, City Hall of Coquitlam, Eagle Ridge Hospital, Alexander Holburn Beaudin Lang LLP, Vancouver Film Festival, Mahler Industries, Market Linx, BCIT, Vancouver Bowling Tournament, Canada Revenue Agency, Maxcraft Avionics, Urban Desigh Group, Call Select, and numerous businesses in TriCity, Burnaby, New Westminster, and. We also do weddings, corporate events, birthday parties, and the like.

In the summer of 2010 YUMICO Catering was to Georgia. We attended a number of restaurants, and private events. We tried authentic Georgian food, and made observations that we could implement into our catering here in Vancouver, Canada. Please feel free to see our pictures.