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Essentials
Entry Level Jobs: Cooks, Food and Beverage Servers, Food Counter Attendants, Kitchen Helpers
| WORKPLACE TASK | Essential Skill |
|---|---|
| Write suggestions for future menus | |
| Read product labels to identify ingredients that may be excluded from restricted diets | |
| Estimate the amounts of food in different sized containers | |
| Decide where to seat customers, based on availability of tables and how busy the restaurant is | |
| Read cooking texts and/or trade magazine articles | |
| Write customer orders | |
| Convert between metric and imperial measurements | |
| Use item listing forms for ordering specific products | |
| Total bills, take payment and make change for purchases | |
| Talk to dishwashers and stewards about cleanup and availability of cutlery | |
| Select which cleaner to use for particular cleaning tasks | |
| Respond to customer inquiries about particular menu items | |
| Convert recipes by multiplying or dividing all ingredients | |
| Read recipes and use them to prepare food | |
| Read menus and price lists | |
| Write notes to managers when food and beverage stocks are in short supply | |
| Prepare bills for catering functions, including taxes | |
| Measure ingredients according to menu specifications and the number of people being served then weigh food to ensure proper portion size | |
| Interact with servers to clarify orders or to explain how to serve specialty dishes | |
| Read rules for keeping cooking and stewarding areas clean | |
| Discuss menus, schedules and customer complaints or requests with their supervisor | |
| Determine how to satisfy a customer complaint | |
| Count out floats at the beginning of shifts | |
| Read customer orders and prepare accordingly | |
| Estimate the time it will take for a meal to be prepared | |
| Communicate with supervisors and co-workers to organize and coordinate their work and receive instructions |