Graphing
Essentials
Entry Level Jobs: Cooks, Food and Beverage Servers, Food Counter Attendants, Kitchen Helpers
| WORKPLACE TASK | Essential Skill |
|---|---|
| Write suggestions for future menus | 3 |
| Read product labels to identify ingredients that may be excluded from restricted diets | 2 |
| Estimate the amounts of food in different sized containers | 4 |
| Decide where to seat customers, based on availability of tables and how busy the restaurant is | 6 |
| Read cooking texts and/or trade magazine articles | 1 |
| Write customer orders | 3 |
| Convert between metric and imperial measurements | 4 |
| Use item listing forms for ordering specific products | 2 |
| Total bills, take payment and make change for purchases | 4 |
| Talk to dishwashers and stewards about cleanup and availability of cutlery | 5 |
| Select which cleaner to use for particular cleaning tasks | 6 |
| Respond to customer inquiries about particular menu items | 5 |
| Convert recipes by multiplying or dividing all ingredients | 4 |
| Read recipes and use them to prepare food | 1 |
| Read menus and price lists | 2 |
| Write notes to managers when food and beverage stocks are in short supply | 3 |
| Prepare bills for catering functions, including taxes | 2 and 4 |
| Measure ingredients according to menu specifications and the number of people being served then weigh food to ensure proper portion size | 4 |
| Interact with servers to clarify orders or to explain how to serve specialty dishes | 5 |
| Read rules for keeping cooking and stewarding areas clean | 1 |
| Discuss menus, schedules and customer complaints or requests with their supervisor | 5 |
| Determine how to satisfy a customer complaint | 6 |
| Count out floats at the beginning of shifts | 4 |
| Read customer orders and prepare accordingly | 2 |
| Estimate the time it will take for a meal to be prepared | 4 |
| Communicate with supervisors and co-workers to organize and coordinate their work and receive instructions | 5 |