Counter Service Assistant Careers

Work Environment:

While doing job as counter service assistant you'll welcome and supply clients purchasing foodstuff in different eating-places, counting self service and fast-food restaurants, snack-bars, cafeterias and bistros.

Your key functions would involve:-

• Rinsing and mopping tables
• Receiving payments in card and cash, also providing receipts and change
• Providing drinks and food
• Preserving the serving and eating sections hygienic, neat and clean

Based on the sort of eating-places, you might moreover blend sauces and make food. Inside limited places like snack-bars, you can arrange every drinks and food. Within fast-food-outlets you'll usually be taught to perform fundamental cooking.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You'll not normally necessitate qualifications/experience to turn out to be a counter service assistant. Earlier experience into fields like customer-service, hospitality or catering would provide you a benefit. A GCSE for hospitality or fundamental-certificate in food-hygiene can furthermore be helpful.

You can hold this work-chance using system of traineeship/Apprenticeship. The availability of Apprenticeships within your zone will rely on the regional market of employment and the kind of proficiency managers or owners desire from staff.

Training Details:

You'll be given practical training at the job from practiced staff-workers. Several big fast-food-series contain in-depth training-course for fresh employees, whereas other managers or employers encompass their training-schools, or utilize local-colleges and providers of training-course.

In any environment you do your job, you can anticipate to be taught in sections for example safety, hygiene and health. You can furthermore be motivated to function to take credentials/qualifications like:-

• Second-level of NVQ for Multi Skilled-Hospitality-Services
• First-level of NVQ for Hospitality
• Second-level of NVQ for Drink and Food-Service

Skills and knowledge:

• Numeral aptitude and also the capability to deal with payments of cash precisely
• The capacity to do your tasks under stress
• Personal-cleanliness
• A hospitable, welcoming and courteous approach
• Outstanding abilities of customer-service
• The aptitude to function as team-member

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Income of supervisors can be approximately £22,000 for year.
• Initial remunerations for full time counter service assistants can be among £11,600-£15,600 annually.
• Through experience earnings can amplify to about £16,000.

Working Conditions:

You'll be occupied in work weekly for forty-hours, since working as assistant on full time basis, together with weekends and evening-shifts. You can also work on the basis of part time hours.

Kitchens and restaurants could be humid, loud, hot and full of activity. You'll require a good-emergence and your manager/owners might give a dress/outfit.

Different Opportunities:

You can get job in a range of eating-places, consisting of schools, cafeterias, snack-bars, fast-food-restaurants, colleges and cafes.

Employees-turnover is relatively good, thus job-opportunity are frequently accessible and published in the regional media and newspapers. Bigger employers/owners are further probably to contain a profession-structure which can let you to advance to an administration or supervisory position.

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