Food Service Worker

Summary

Under close supervision, performs routine work involved in food preparation, cooking, and serving.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in the preparation of salads, including cutting and chopping ingredients and preparing dressings.
• Cleans kitchen equipment such as stoves, steam kettles, and ovens.
• Sweeps and mops floors; removes dirty dishes and cleans tables, chairs, refrigerators, and cupboards.
• Cleans, peels, and cuts vegetables using manual and electric equipment.
• Assembles patient trays for special diets, weighing servings and labeling according to patient specifications.
• Prepares adult formulas and tube feedings by assembling, measuring, and mixing ingredients.
• Prepares special diets as ordered by doctors, including grinding, preparing, and cooking food items, and weighing according to recipes.
• Labels formulas, special diets, and tube feedings.
• Transports loaded food carts to patient or dining areas and returns carts and dirty dishes.
• Loads and unloads food carts into delivery vans for kitchen-to-dining area transport.
• Receives, inspects, transports, and stores food staples, vegetables, dairy products, and kitchen supplies.
• Sets up cafeteria food lines, including operating steam tables and replenishing serving lines with food.
• Serves food in a cafeteria tray line.
• Works in a kitchen or dining area keeping food hot and cooking short orders such as eggs, coffee, toast, bacon, and pancakes.
• Unloads food supplies from delivery trucks, stores them, and maintains cleanliness of storage rooms.
• Washes dishes, pots, and pans by hand or using dishwashing and pot washing machines.
• Loads food into carts and cleans trucks and equipment.
• Washes large and heavy pots and pans.
• Transports refuse to disposal areas.
• Keeps dining areas and equipment in a clean and orderly condition.
• Performs related duties as required.
• On a relief basis or as a trainee, assists a Cook or relieves a Senior Food Service Worker or diet clerk.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience:

• Six months of experience in either serving or assisting in the preparation of food or washing dishes, pots, pans in a large cafeteria or dining room.