Catering Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a term time Catering Assistant, to join our team at Chesneys Centre

The successful candidate must have previous catering experience and skilled in customer care and food service. Good food hygiene skills are also required together with the ability to work individually as well as part of a team.

Key areas of responsibility:

Serve customers efficiently with food and drink orders and take payments. Assist in preparation of the café and counter areas before, during and at the end of service. Offer customers exceptional standards of customer service and care. Ordering of stock and stock rotation.

The role includes:

Demonstrating the highest standards of customer welcome and care when assisting customers at the counter and serving of orders. Giving advice, on products and menus to ensure a positive experience. Ensuring adequate stock levels of supplies and consumables for café area, managing orders and stock rotation. Managing queues and meeting customer expectations Service of hot and cold beverages, Food items and snacks. Keeping the cafe tidy and clean including table clearing, removing dirties and waste. Working within established guidelines and operating procedures. Ensuring compliance with all legislation, food hygiene, and health and safety.

The personal skills that are required for the job:

Having a friendly and engaging personality, a good communicator, able to work under pressure. Comfortable working with members of the public, able to initiate conversations and provide a sincere welcome and enjoy providing good service. Need to be willing to learn, take instruction and work under own initiative, supporting other team members and able to multitask. An effective, well organised and efficient team player with a strong sense of discipline and urgency. Knowledge of till operation and cash handling. Food Hygiene training / qualifications.

The position is 30 hours per week. Which may include evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays where necessary.

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