Terms

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What these terms cover

These terms cover three things: the classes we teach at 931 Garst St, the online tracks we sell, and this website. They are the agreement between you and Culinary Teaching LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. The teaching kitchen and customer-service address is 931 Garst St, Cabool, MO 65689, US — that is where the classes run, not the state of formation.

They apply the moment you use this site, and they apply in full once you book a class or buy anything from us. They also apply to anyone who takes your place — if you give away a seat, a pass or a gift certificate, the person who turns up is covered by this page too. Send them the link along with the seat.

If anything here does not match what we agreed with you directly, whether that was by email or on the phone, what we agreed with you wins. We would rather be held to the conversation than to the boilerplate.

Four subjects live in their own documents, and those documents are part of this agreement:

• —Cancellations & refunds — the 48-hour line, no-shows, transfers, deposits, and money back on passes, gift certificates and online tracks.
• —Safety & allergens — the risks in the kitchen, what we need from you, alcohol, under-18s, and the food you carry out of the building.
• —Privacy — what we do with the information you give us, including anything you tell us about allergies.
• —Trust & security — how card payments are handled and how this website is looked after.

Where one of those pages covers a subject, it is the one that governs it. We would rather send you to one clear page than say the same thing twice in two slightly different ways. The whole set is listed at all legal pages.

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A quote request is not a booking

Sending a request through this site does not reserve anything. It tells us what you would like to cook, how many of you there are, and roughly when suits. No card, no deposit, nothing held.

We reply with a price and the times we can actually run it, normally inside one business day. A place exists only once we have both confirmed it — you say yes to a particular class at a particular time, and we confirm it back to you. That is the point the agreement starts, and the price in that confirmation is the price.

A quote stands for 30 days from the day we send it. After that, ask us again and we will requote — a quote lapses quietly rather than renewing itself, and we will not treat one you did not accept as a booking.

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Prices, what is included, and how you pay

Class prices are per seat and run from $75 USD to $130 USD. The price includes ingredients, the use of our tools and equipment, an apron and towels, printed recipe cards, and the meal at the end. You do not do the dishes. That was never the deal.

We take card and cash in person. We do not take card numbers by email or through the quote form, and we will never ask you to send them that way. There is more on how card payments are handled in Trust & security, and what happens to a deposit if a private booking is cancelled is in Cancellations & refunds.

Sales tax

If sales tax applies to what you are buying, it appears as its own line in the price we give you before you commit — in the written quote for a class or a private group, and on the phone before you pay for a pass, a track or a certificate. Nothing gets added at the door that was not in that number. If it turns out tax does not apply to what you bought, we will not be charging it.

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If a price is wrong

We try to keep prices, class descriptions and availability accurate, but this site can go out of date and a number can be mistyped. Where a class has been quoted, the price we quoted you in writing is the price that counts.

Where you have taken a price straight off this site rather than from a quote — the six-class pass, the three online tracks, a gift certificate — the same protection applies in both directions. If a published price is obviously wrong, we will tell you before you pay anything and you are free to walk away. We will not hold you to our error, and we will not charge you more than the price you saw without asking you first and getting a yes.

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Who we are contracting with

Whoever books is our customer, and they must be 18 or over. That is who we quote, who owes the money, and who we deal with if something goes wrong.

Classes are open to people aged 14 and up, and anyone under 18 must be accompanied throughout by a participating adult. That adult is the customer: they book, they pay, and they are responsible for the young person in the room. Someone under 18 can walk away from an agreement they made, so making the adult the contracting party is the honest arrangement rather than a clever one.

• —The accompanying adult must be a parent or legal guardian, or an adult the parent or guardian has authorised in writing.
• —No more than two under-18s per accompanying adult.
• —The adult cooks alongside them and stays in the room for the whole class. Dropping a teenager off is not something we can accept.
• —Tell us in your request that a young person is coming and how old they are, so we can set the room up and talk you through the class before you commit.
• —Which activities under-18s can and cannot do, and the rule that nobody under 21 drinks here, are set out in Safety & allergens.

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Coming to a class

A teaching kitchen has sharp knives, hot pans, open flame and coals, a pressure canner and raw poultry in it. Those are real risks and we do not dress them up. Safety & allergens sets out what those risks are, what we do about them, and what we need from you. Booking or attending a class means you accept those risks, as far as anyone can accept a risk in advance. We are not asking you to sign a release printed on a web page, and Missouri limits what we could ask for anyway. We are asking you to read that page before you book and to come only if you are content with what is on it.

• —Follow the instructor’s directions. In a room with eight people and live fire, that is the whole safety system.
• —Closed-toe shoes. Tie long hair back. Roll long sleeves.
• —Tell us straight away if you cut or burn yourself, however small it looks.
• —We can refuse entry to, or ask to leave, anyone who is intoxicated or behaving unsafely. The full price for that seat is still due, exactly as it is for a no-show — Cancellations & refunds sets that out — and you can still take home what you cooked.
• —Anything you take home — sealed jars, a live starter, stock, raw dough, leftovers — is covered by the take-home rules in Safety & allergens. Read those before you eat any of it.

Allergies and dietary needs: tell us in your quote request and we will say honestly whether that menu can be adapted. Sometimes it cannot, and we would rather move you to a class that suits than serve you a compromise. Our kitchen is a shared space and we cannot guarantee any dish is free of any allergen — the full statement is on Safety & allergens, and if your allergy is severe, phone us before you commit.

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The six-class pass and gift certificates

The six-class pass

$480 USD buys six seats at our published classes. It covers any class in the catalogue whatever that class is listed at, including the dearest one. It does not cover private group bookings, which are quoted separately.

• —A pass is transferable, and we read that the generous way. Hand a seat to someone else and they can come without you, or spend more than one seat on the same evening and bring people with you. Our pricing page says “bring a friend” and we will honour it.
• —Six seats is six seats, and that is the whole of it. A pass does not book out the room, and seats are subject to the class having space on the date you want.
• —A pass gives you first pick when new dates go up; it does not override a full class.
• —A pass is not exchangeable for cash.
• —Anyone using one of your seats is bound by these terms and by the safety rules, exactly as you are.
• —The twelve months, what happens to seats you have not used, and refunds on a pass are in Cancellations & refunds.

Gift certificates

Certificates are bought by phone. We write one out and post it to you on paper — we do not email them and we do not issue codes. One can be written for a single class or for the six-class pass, and the person you give it to picks what they cook. A certificate is a prepayment rather than money, and it is not exchangeable for cash. When it is redeemed, these terms apply to the person redeeming it. How long a certificate runs for, what happens to a balance left on it, and refunds are all in Cancellations & refunds.

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The online tracks

What you are buying

A track buys you a personal licence to use the material for your own cooking — including cooking for a living, if that is where you are headed. Print the prep sheets, work through the modules, keep your notes. The licence is yours and does not transfer to anyone else.

What the licence does not allow: sharing your access with other people, re-uploading or reposting the videos, selling or handing on the prep sheets and written material, or presenting our material as your own course. Teaching what you have learned is fine, and we say so plainly further down this page — redistributing our recordings and documents is not.

How it reaches you

Tracks are arranged by phone or email and paid for before we set access up. Access then arrives by email, to the address you give us, within two business days. Nothing about the tracks happens on this website: there is no login here and no course platform here. If your access has not arrived when we said it would, email us and we will sort it out — and if it never arrives, you get every dollar back whenever you ask.

Refunds on tracks are covered in Cancellations & refunds.

What “lifetime access” honestly means

One payment. No subscription, no renewal fee, and no expiry date on your access. What we cannot honestly promise is that any track stays online forever, because no small business can promise that and mean it. So here is what we will hold ourselves to instead: every track stays available for at least three years from the day you buy it.

If we retire a track after that, everyone who bought it gets at least 90 days’ notice by email, and we send you the written material and prep sheets in a form you can keep. You do not pay again for anything you already bought, and Cancellations & refunds says who gets money back when a track is retired.

The $40 class credit

Buying a track earns $40 off one in-person class. One credit per track, each credit comes off one seat once, and it works against any class in our published catalogue whatever it costs. It is not exchangeable for cash and it does not transfer to another person. Tell us you are using it when you ask about a class and we will put it on the quote. The rest of the rules — how long a credit runs, and what it will not combine with — are in Cancellations & refunds.

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Our material, your material

The videos, photographs, recipe cards, prep sheets and the writing on this site are ours. That is the part we made.

The cooking is not ours, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A technique belongs to nobody. A list of ingredients and the steps to combine them is not something a cooking school can own. Cook what we teach you, cook it for money, put it on a menu, teach it to your sister, run a class at your church. We are a teaching school. Someone leaving here and teaching it onward is the entire point.

What you may not do is copy, resell, re-upload or pass on our videos, prep sheets, recipe cards, photographs or written text, or present any of it as your own work.

Work you send us

The online tracks end with a skills check, where you send a photo of your work and get written notes back inside a week. What you send stays yours. You are giving us permission to look at it, keep it with your notes and reply to you, and nothing more — we will ask you first, separately, before using anything of yours publicly. Only send work that is yours to send, and if you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian before you send anything.

If you think we have used something of yours

Email hello@culinaryteaching.com with a link to the page and tell us what it is. We will take it down while we look into it rather than argue first.

Photographs we take during a class are a different matter. The rule we work to is in Safety & allergens, and what we then do with the picture is in Privacy.

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Using this website

This is a brochure site. You read it, and you send a quote request. There is nothing to log in to, no account to create and no content to upload. Using it is free and you do not need our permission.

It also does very little to you. There is no analytics and no advertising or social pixel. There is a Termly consent banner, an optional tawk.to chat widget that stays blocked until you allow it, and one Full / Calm / Off motion setting you chose yourself in the footer. While you are reading a page here, a quote request you actually send, the ordinary record Cloudflare keeps of the request, Termly remembering your choice, and — if you allowed it — the chat widget, may leave your browser. Follow a link off the site and you are on somebody else’s page under their terms, the same as anywhere. Cookies & storage sets all of that out line by line.

What we ask you not to do:

• —Do not attack the site or the quote form, flood it with automated submissions, or try to reach anything that is not meant to be public.
• —Do not submit somebody else’s name, phone number or email without their say-so.
• —Do not copy the site wholesale to rebuild it somewhere else.
• —Do not use it for anything unlawful, or to send us anything unlawful.

If somebody does any of that, we can block their access. We work to keep the site accurate and available, but it can be out of date and it can be down. What that means for liability is in the next section.

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Liability

Eight seats, one instructor, and we teach carefully. What we cannot do is guarantee outcomes, and a document that promised otherwise would be worth less than one that says so.

• —We cannot guarantee your croissants come out of your oven the way they came out of ours.
• —We cannot guarantee any dish is free of any allergen. Our kitchen is a shared space — see Safety & allergens.
• —We do not warrant the shelf-stability or the seal of jars you processed yourself, or the safety of raw dough, a live starter or stock once it leaves the building. The rules for all of that are in Safety & allergens, and following them is on you.
• —We do not guarantee this website is always available, always current, or free of errors.

What we do not limit

Nothing in these terms limits any liability that Missouri law does not permit us to limit. That includes fraud, gross negligence, recklessness and anything done deliberately. We are not asking you to sign any of that away, and we could not do it even if we tried.

What we do limit

We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss: lost wages, travel and accommodation, a missed occasion, lost profits, lost data, a ruined weekend. Beyond that, our liability for the money side of things — a class that disappointed, a track that did not work, a booking we got wrong — is limited to the amount you paid us for that class, that pass or that track.

Things outside anyone’s control

Neither of us is responsible to the other for failing to do something because of an event outside reasonable control — an ice storm, a flood, a power cut, a fire, a supply failure, serious illness, or the failure of a service we depend on. If we cannot run a class, Cancellations & refunds says what you get, and the choice is yours rather than ours. If something of that kind takes an online track offline, our notice-and-material obligation above still stands.

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Changes to these terms

These terms will change as the business changes. When we make a material change it takes effect 30 days after we post it, and it applies only to bookings confirmed and purchases made after that date.

Anything already agreed stays on the version in force when you agreed it: a confirmed class, an unspent six-class pass, an unredeemed gift certificate, an online track you have already bought. We are not going to rewrite the deal you bought.

The version number and the effective date are at the top of this page. We keep every superseded version and will email you a copy of any of them if you ask.

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If something goes wrong

Tell us first. Email hello@culinaryteaching.com or phone +1 (417) 962-8474 and say what happened. We will answer within ten business days and try to fix it rather than argue about it. Most things that go wrong at a cooking school are fixed with a phone call and another date.

If we cannot sort it out between us, either of us can go to court. There is no arbitration clause on this page and no class-action waiver. You are not giving up the right to bring a claim, or to bring one alongside other people. At the amounts involved here, most disputes belong in small claims, and we are content for them to go there.

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Governing law and where a dispute goes

Culinary Teaching LLC is formed in Wyoming. That is the entity’s home for internal affairs, and it is not the same fact as the kitchen in Cabool. These terms are governed by the law of the State of Missouri. Cabool sits in Texas County, and a dispute under these terms goes to the state courts of Texas County, Missouri — the 44th Judicial Circuit, whose courthouse is in Houston, Missouri. Nothing in that stops either of us using small claims.

If you live somewhere else and the law where you live gives you consumer rights you cannot sign away, this section does not take them from you.

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The rest of the small print

• —If one part fails. If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands. One bad clause does not take the agreement with it.
• —The whole agreement. These terms, the quote we sent you and our confirmation of it are the agreement — together with anything we specifically agreed with you, including on the phone. The phone is how a lot of our business is done and we are not going to pretend those conversations did not happen. We confirm anything agreed on a call by email the same or next business day; that email is the record, so read it and tell us if we have it wrong.
• —Letting something go once. If we do not enforce something on one occasion — waive a late-cancellation charge, let a deadline slide — that is a kindness on the day, not a permanent change to the terms, and it does not stop us enforcing it another time.
• —If the business changes hands. We may transfer this agreement to whoever takes over the business, and any passes, gift certificates and online tracks go with it, honoured on the same terms. You cannot transfer your agreement with us to somebody else, except in the ways this page already allows for seats, passes and certificates.
• —What outlives the class. The sections on liability, our material, governing law and this small print keep applying after a class is over or a track is retired.
• —Where we sell. We sell to customers in the United States, and every price on this site is in US dollars.

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Notices, and how to reach us

Any notice under these terms can be sent by email to hello@culinaryteaching.com or by post to the address below. An email takes effect at the timestamp on it, Central Time, whether or not the office is open and whether or not we have replied yet. You never need to reach a person to put something on the record. For cancelling a class specifically, Cancellations & refunds sets out how and by when, and a call during office hours counts there too.

Culinary Teaching LLC · 931 Garst St, Cabool, MO 65689 · +1 (417) 962-8474 · hello@culinaryteaching.com

The office is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Classes run Tuesday to Friday evenings and Saturday and Sunday mornings and late afternoons. If something on this page is unclear, or reads as though it is working against you, tell us and we will look at it again.