Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food

• Serve customers in eating places that specialize in fast service and inexpensive carry-out food.
• Accept payment from customers, and make change as necessary.
• Request and record customer orders, and compute bills using cash registers, multi counting machines, or pencil and paper.
• Clean and organize eating, service, and kitchen areas.
• Communicate with customers regarding orders, comments, and complaints.
• Notify kitchen personnel of shortages or special orders.
• Prepare daily food items, and cook simple foods and beverages, such as sandwiches, salads, soups, pizza, or coffee, using proper safety precautions and sanitary measures.
• Relay food orders to cooks.
• Select food items from serving or storage areas and place them in dishes, on serving trays, or in take-out bags.
• Prepare and serve cold drinks, or frozen milk drinks or desserts, using drink-dispensing, milkshake, or frozen custard machines.
• Collect and return dirty dishes to the kitchen for washing.
• Cook or reheat food items such as french fries.
• Monitor and order supplies or food items and restock as necessary to maintain inventory.
• Perform personnel activities such as supervising and training employees.
• Wash dishes, glassware, and silverware after meals.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food.

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Learning Strategies - Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food.