Fast Food and Counter Workers

Perform duties such as taking orders and serving food and beverages. Serve customers at counter or from a steam table. May take payment. May prepare food and beverages.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Conventional

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Social

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Enterprising

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Artistic

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Investigative

Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed

Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, and Coffee Shop

Communicate with customers regarding orders, comments, and complaints.

Scrub and polish counters, steam tables, and other equipment, and clean glasses, dishes, and fountain equipment.

Accept payment from customers, and make change as necessary.

Perform cleaning duties, such as sweeping, mopping, and washing dishes, to keep equipment and facilities sanitary.

Balance receipts and payments in cash registers.

Request and record customer orders, and compute bills, using cash registers, multi-counting machines, or pencil and paper.

Serve food, beverages, or desserts to customers in such settings as take-out counters of restaurants or lunchrooms, business or industrial establishments, hotel rooms, and cars.

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.

Clean and organize eating, service, and kitchen areas.

Monitor and order supplies or food items, and restock as necessary to maintain inventory.

Microsoft Excel

Quizlet

Aldelo Systems Aldelo for Restaurants Pro

Foodman Home-Delivery

Intuit QuickBooks Point of Sale

Plexis Software Plexis POS

Microsoft Office software

Microsoft Windows

Menu and nutrition database software

Facebook

Electric ovens

Electric stoves

Gas stoves

Stoves

Barcode scanners

Linear imaging scanners

Long range charged coupled device CCD barcode scanners

Point of service scanners

Automatic slicers

Commercial food slicers

Slicing machines

Vertical cutters

Electric warming tables

Steam counters

Steam tables

Credit card machines

Credit card processing machines

Credit card scanners

Point of sale POS computer terminals

Point of sale POS terminals

Point of service workstations

Deep fat fryers

Deep wells

Fryers

Blenders

Milk frothers

Carbonated beverage dispensers

Soda machines

Portion scales

Scales

Fast Food & Counter Workers

It’s usually chill except when we get super busy, then it’s more hectic.

Denver Green.

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Food

Numbers

Working with Others

Day to Day

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Denver Green.

Crew Member

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Food

Numbers

Working with Others

Day to Day

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Peers:

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