Real restaurant experience helps student in job search

Romeo Rafila may have had a late start getting a formal education in foodservice, earning an associate’s degree in restaurant management his 30s. But he can boast about being the first student to complete a new hands-on program at Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, Pa. The Harrisburg Hotel Corp., managing general partner of the Hilton Harrisburg, partnered last year with HACC’s Olewine School of Culinary Arts to open Bricco, a 6,000-square-foot, 160-seat restaurant