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Food service worker
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Food service workers prepare food and serve customers. They prepare simple dishes to be used in places that serve food, such as restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals and ensure that kitchen operations run smoothly and efficiently.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Serving food to customers at counters;
(b) Ascertaining the products desired by the customer, assisting them in making choices and taking orders;
(c) Cleaning, peeling, slicing and trimming foodstuffs using manual and electric appliances;
(d) Preparing simple food items and reheating prepared meals;
(e) Portioning and wrapping food or placing it directly on plates for service to patrons;
(f) Packaging takeaway food;
(g) Stocking refrigerators, salad, buffet bars and keeping records of the quantities of food used;
(h) Receiving payment for food items purchased.
Knowledge
- Food processing
- Medicine
- Therapy and rehabilitation
Digital competencies
- Collaborating and liaising
- Complying with health and safety procedures
- Documenting technical designs, procedures, problems or activities
- Communicating with colleagues and clients
- Complying with operational procedures
Digital competencies
No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.
Personal competencies
- Demonstrating willingness to learn
- Communicating
Professional groups of the occupation
Service and sales workers
Sales workers
Other sales workers
Food service counter attendants
Other occupations of the professional group
Related training
Vocational training
- Marketing of food products IVET
- Restaurant services IVET
Certificates of professionalism
- Bar and café services CP2
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Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Food service counter attendants
67.778
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
38,97%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
-13,99% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
60,71%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
51,01%
Part-time contracts
1,68% Turnover index
9.823
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
-4%
Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
The market for this profile is hiring
Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age
Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.
Sales workers
45%
55%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Sales workers
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
What vacancies are published in the professional family?
Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year
Other sales workers
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Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.
What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?
Food service counter attendants
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
The vacancies published are for working in:
Job vacancies posted by county
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
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