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Catering Assistant Responsibilities:

• Performing basic food preparation tasks, which include washing, peeling, and cutting fruit and vegetables, seasoning and slicing meats, and preparing sauces and salads.
• Setting up dining and buffet areas as per the Catering Manager's instructions.
• Ensuring all tableware and chafing dishes are properly cleaned and sanitized before each catering event.
• Taking inventory of ingredients and catering supplies and ordering new stock as required.
• Loading and unloading food, tableware, and catering supplies onto and off catering vehicles.
• Appropriately storing clean chafing dishes, tableware, platters, and equipment after each catering event.
• Answering guests' catering-related questions during events and addressing all complaints.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of marketing strategies to promote catering services.
• Assisting in all duties related to customer billing.

Catering Assistant Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Proven experience working in the catering industry.
• A food handler's license.
• Sound knowledge of food health and safety regulations.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to work as part of a team.
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Exceptional customer service skills.

Construction Laborer Salary and Outlook

The figures below are only a guide. Actual pay rates may vary, depending on:

• where you work
• the size of the company or organization you work for
• the demand for the job.

Working Conditions

The long hours of work can be long, and the job requires physical work, so employees may find the job tiring. However, regardless of how tired a worker is feeling, it is significant that they are consistently alert due to the possibly hazardous equipment in the kitchen. The kitchen environment is probably going to be hot, loud and occupied, which can be distressing.

SKILLS

To become a successful catering assistant, applicants will need to demonstrate the following skills:

• Ability to work efficiently and keep calm, under pressure.
• Stamina and eagerness.
• Ability to work rapidly however proficiently.
• Ability to function admirably in a group.
• Good relational abilities.
• High gauges of individual cleanliness.
• An enthusiasm for food and providing food.
• Ability to work for extended periods of time during stress time.

Experience

Experience of working in a kitchen is an advantage for possible employees. In any case, supervised training is ordinarily given at work, which includes remembering guidance for how to get ready dinners and handle hardware.