Policies and Procedures
IACP Code of Professional Ethics
This code of ethics for members of the International Association of Culinary Professionals has been adopted to promote and maintain the highest standards of association service and personal conduct among its members.
Adherence to these standards is required for membership in the Association, and serves to assure public confidence in the integrity and service of Culinary Professionals.
As a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, I pledge myself to:
- Support the growth of knowledge and the free interchange of ideas within the profession, and respect the views and opinions of my colleagues and honor their right to express them.
- Strive to achieve and maintain excellence in my culinary work.
- Constantly strive to improve and expand my culinary knowledge.
- Accurately represent my professional training and qualifications and not knowingly permit, aid, abet or suffer the misstatement of my training and qualifications by others.
- Maintain the highest standards of accuracy and honesty in my dealings with colleagues and clients.
- Not publish, or knowingly permit to be published on my behalf, any advertising or promotional material, which contains false, deceptive or misleading statements.
- Respect the intellectual property rights of others and not knowingly use or appropriate to my own financial or professional advantage any recipe or other intellectual property belonging to another without the proper recognition.
- Respect my students and my colleagues, and strive always to ensure that professional comment and criticism of their work is both constructive and appropriate.
- Dedicate myself to support and assist the association in serving the profession and the public.
- Refrain from any act or omission, and not permit or suffer any act or omission, which would discredit or bring dishonor to the association or any member thereof.
- Acknowledge ethics and morality as inseparable elements of doing business and will test every decision against the highest standards of honesty, legality, fairness, impunity and conscience.
- Conduct myself at all times such as to bring credit to the industry at large.
- Concentrate my time, energy and resources on the improvement of my own product and services and will not denigrate our competition in the pursuit of our own success.
- Provide every employee at every level all the knowledge, training, equipment and motivation required to perform his or her tasks according to our published standards.
- Strive constantly, in words, actions and deeds, to develop and maintain the highest level of trust, honesty and understanding among clients, colleagues, employees, employers and the public at large.
