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Career Details : Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, and Coffee Shop

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Description

Serve food to diners at counter or from a steam table.

Experience

No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.

Education

These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.

Training

Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.

Tasks

  • Serves food, beverages, or desserts to customers in variety of settings, such as takeout counter of restaurant or lunchroom.
  • Calls order to kitchen and picks up and serves order when it is ready.
  • Replenishes foods at serving stations.
  • Brews coffee and tea and fills containers with requested beverages.
  • Accepts payment for food, using cash register or adding machine to total check.
  • Carves meat.
  • Scrubs and polishes counters, steam tables, and other equipment and cleans glasses, dishes, and fountain equipment and polishes metalwork on fountain.
  • Adds relishes and garnishes according to instructions.
  • Orders items to replace stocks.
  • Prepares sandwiches, salads, and other short-order items.
  • Wraps menu items, such as sandwiches, hot entrees, and desserts.
  • Serves sandwiches, salads, beverages, desserts, and candies to employees in industrial establishment.
  • Writes items ordered on tickets, totals orders, passes orders to cook, and gives ticket stubs to customers to identify filled orders.
  • Serves salads, vegetables, meat, breads, and cocktails, ladles soups and sauces, portions desserts, and fills beverage cups and glasses.
  • Prepares and serves soft drinks and ice cream dishes, such as sundaes, using memorized formulas and methods of following directions.

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    • Job-Required Social Interaction
    • Provide a Service to Others
    • Indoors
    • Standing
    • Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

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