Food Craft Institute (FCI), Kalamassery was established in 1967.

Its Affiliated to Kerala University of Health Sciences.

It is sponsored by the Government of India and Government of Kerala, to train promising, men and women for the Catering Industry.

At present the Institutes offer certificate course have been designed with a stress on practical training.

A variety of teaching and learning techniques are employed to impart knowledge and skills to students at Food craft Institute, Kalamassery in its various departments.

The training imparted at these institutes will fully equip the trainees, to take a position of responsibility in the various branches of the industry.

There are, in this country, a number of luxury hotels and many medium catering establishments, snack bars, restaurants, ice-cream bars, coffee bar stand other forms of institutional food services.