The Culinary Junior National team wins two gold medals at the Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart beginning of February 2024! We have been supporting the team for 16 years as a partner with Kai knives and congratulate the ambitious young chefs.

We congratulate the Culinary Junior National team on their World Championship title and are proud to have supported the team with Kai knives for 16 years!

f.l.t.r., team 2024: Laura Loosli (Deltapark, Thun), Athina Karavouzi (Park Hyatt, Zurich), Simon Grimbichler (Catering training centre, caserne Thun), Karina Fruman (Cantonal hospital, Olten), Dalila Zambelli (Roof Garden, Zurich), Andreas Grossen (Restaurant Alpenblick, Adelboden); missing on the photo Nicole Lüthi (Memories, Bad Ragaz)

For 14 years, we have been with Kai partner of the Swiss junior national cooking team. With female power (5 women in the team), preparations are underway for the 2022 World Championships in Luxembourg. Many of the new team members have experience from various individual competitions. The team is accompanied by team manager Tobia Ciarulli (2nd photo, centre) and coaches Thomas Kuster (left) and Pascal Inauen (right), all experienced competitors themselves.

f.l.t.r.: Laura Loosli (winner gusto19), Tom Walter, Karina Fruman, Alexandra Helbling, Jan Schmid, Robin Bartels, Stéphanie Zosso (winner marmite youngster 2020), Nicole Lüthi

The Culinary Junior National Team made it onto the podium in the overall standings at the Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart – where 2'800 chefs from over 50 countries competed from 15 - 19th February 2020 – and took the Olympic bronze medal behind Sweden and Norway. The team took gold in the "IKA Buffet for 12" as well as the three-course meal for 60 people.

f.l.t.r. Tobia Ciarulli, Bruno Keist, Tim Hoffmann, Bettina Marti, Marco Kölbener, Eliott Neuhaus, Dominik Roider, Karina Fruman, Jan Schmid, Normand Jubin, Thomas Kuster

The official photo of the new Culinary Junior National team 2019 was taken at the recent photo shoot, which will be shown on a black background in the Kai advertising (2nd photo). As the 3rd photo impressively shows, the shooting was accompanied by a lot of fun. We wish the newly formed team every success on their way to the 2020 Olympics and are proud to be a partner in supporting the team members' passion for cooking with Kai knives. The Culinary Junior National team is also supported by Bruno Keist (Coach), Tobia Ciarulli (Team Manager) and Thomas Kuster (Coach).

f.l.t.r.: Bettina Marti, Marco Kölbener, Normand Jubin, Dominik Roider, Eliott Neuhaus, Tim Hoffmann, Ann-Sophie Bernhard, Jan Schmid

The Culinary Junior National team wins the gold medal at the Culinary World Cup 2018 in Luxembourg for both the "Contemporary Buffet for 12" and their "Hot Kitchen" programme. With these two gold medals, the Culinary Junior National team becomes Vice World Champion. Kai provided a sknife knife bag for each team member, stocked with Shun knives and triangle® kitchen utensils.

The existing Culinary Junior National team welcomes three motivated and exciting young personalities in the new team 2018. At the photo shooting on 23.1.18, the official photo of the new team was created, which will also be used on a black background for the Kai advertisement.

From left to right: Daniel Straumann, Bettina Marti, Jean-Michel Wittmer, team chief Norman Hunziker, Manuel Engel, team captain Steven Duss, Normand Jubin, Rebecca Rellin, Dominik Roider

In 2016, the newly formed Culinary Junior National team had won the runner-up Olympic title in Erfurt, setting ambitions for the upcoming 2018 World Championships. Norman Hunziker, Steven Duss, Manuel Engel, Sara Gruosso and Jean-Michel Wittmer are the "Olympic runners-up" in the team, which is completed by two new members: Delphine Rossetti, the first team member from French-speaking Switzerland, as well as Daniel Straumann already have competition experience – the ideal addition to the young team with team manager Tobia Ciarulli, who is used to success.

F.l.t.r.: Sara Gruosso, Manuel Engel, Steven Duss (team captain), Norman Hunziker (team manager), Jean-Michel Wittmer, Delphine Rossetti, Daniel Straumann

The Swiss Culinary Junior Team has become second with 185.92 points behind Sweden at the Culinary Olympics in Erfurt 2016. In this way, the Swiss rising generation of chefs confirms the excellent placings of recent years.

The new Culinary Junior National Team had a lot of fun at the photo shoot: the official photo on a black background will again be featured in the Kai advertising. The junior chefs cook their Olympic menu at 4 test runs in preparation for the 2016 Culinary Olympics in Erfurt in October 2016.

From left to right: Lukas Kaufmann, Matthias Fehr, Sara Gruosso, Steven Duss, Michaela Frank, Norman Hunziker (team captain), Manuel Engel

The Culinary Junior National Team is World Champion at the Culinary World Cup 2014 Luxembourg! The Culinary Junior National Team won gold in both the hot kitchen and the cold show. The Kai Shun knives, with which Kai has been equipping the Swiss junior chefs for 6 years, certainly played a major role in this success.

The mood of the Culinary Junior National team at the foto shoot in the kitchen of the training centre of the Gastro Solothurn at the GerolagCenter in Olten was great. Thanks to the good preparation, the new official foto of the Culinary Junior National team looks presentable:

As partner of the Swiss Culinary Junior National team Kai supports the dedication and the heart and the soul of chefs and offers them with the Shun knives the adequate tools to practise their passion. The next step for the new Swiss culinary junior national team is to win the World Culinary Cup in Luxembourg.
The new team is composed by Mario Garcia (Teamcapitain), Yanik Mumenthaler, Ale Mordasini, Elisabeth Albrecht, David Lanz und Joel Hösli.

These now familiar faces were team members of the former Culinary Junior National team: Alex Prack, Micha Schärer,
Daniela Manser, Flurina Maissen, Rebecca Clopath, Aline Born, Nadja Schuler (from top to bottom).