Food Service Worker

Food Service Worker

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenishes items as necessary.
• Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients'/residents' plates
• Use general sanitation principles to safeguard food against spoilage and waste.
• Prevent contamination by cleaning equipment previously used for raw food.
• Prepare boxed/to go meals.
• Organize work in a logical sequence.
• Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients'/residents' plates.
• Prepare fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts in specified quantities.
• Provide assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes.
• Prepare uncooked food items, such as sandwich spread and salad dressings.
• Portion food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware.
• Prepare beverages according to the number of servings required.
• Select and places correct items on trays.
• Read and interpret a regular or modified menu, individual diet cards, tray tickets or patient selections.
• Understand of food terminology, measurements, and serving information in standardized recipes and menus.
• Sort, wash, peel and cut cold foods using knives or other equipment.
• Set up assigned station with the correct supplies and food items.
• Operate and break down and clean all equipment assigned to food service and related areas,
• Separate food waste, trash/recyclables from dishes, glasses and silverware.
• Store sanitized dishes, glasses and silverware.
• Scrape, soak, scour, and scrub cookware and utensils.
• Break down and cleans food stations.
• Separate food waste, trash/recyclables from dishes, glasses and silverware.
• Store sanitized dishes, glasses and silverware.
• Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room.
• Deliver meal trays.
• Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas.
• Unload food/tray delivery carts.
• Move garbage cans when collecting and transferring trash from the work area to the disposal area.
• Transport food and supplies to the Substance Abuse Residence Rehabilitation Program (SARRTP) Unit.

Work Schedule: 5 days a week rotating days off (2 days 6:00am-2:30pm and 3 days 11:00am-7:30pm)

Position Description Title/PD#: Food Service Worker/PD40307A

Physical Requirements: Physical Effort and Work Conditions: Work is performed in kitchen areas where the steam and heat from cooking and dishwashing equipment often cause uncomfortably high temperatures and humidity. Performs work requiring light to moderate physical. May be required to perform heavy work, such as scouring and scrubbing large size cooking utensils and pushing heavy carts and trucks in unloading, storing, and delivering supplies. Subject to continuous standing and walking, and frequent stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and bending. Frequently lifts or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds unassisted and occasionally lift or move objects weighing more than 40 pounds with the assistance of others.