cafeteria helper resume example

• Maintained clean, trash-free workspaces to maximize productivity and safety.
• Took special orders for event catering and party trays, assisting customers by recommending additional items, condiments and garnishes.
• Prevented food spoilage by monitoring dates, rotating stock and following proper storage procedures.
• Cleaned and sanitized dishes and utensils, consistently keeping adequate supplies on hand for expected customer loads.
• Promoted new or high-value food items by creating attractive displays in cases and other customer-facing areas.
• Opened new inventory and rotated stock by dates to maintain freshness.
• Carefully prepared orders by slicing, weighing and packaging cheeses and meats and accurately calculated prices.
• Listened to customer requests and suggested additional menu items as appropriate to upsell products.
• Calculated total items needed to assemble party trays and placed orders for inventory.
• Used downtimes to prepare ingredients and restock supplies for expected busy periods.
• Inspected equipment such as refrigerators and warming lamps every day to check compliance with safe operating levels.
• Handled busy, fast-paced situations and agitated customers with relative ease while remaining professional and calm.
• Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately.

Responsibilities include cooking, preparing, serving, and maintaining fresh quality food for customers at the Golub Corporation main distribution center. Other responsibilities include cashier work, customer service, answering questions, and meeting customer needs. I am also responsible for maintaining a clean working and serving environment including deep cleaning such as cleaning hood vents as well as the entire hood vent on a regular basis moving equipment, scrubbing walls, wheels, racks, floors, etc.. Weekly changing of fryer oil, de-liming of steam tables and dishwashers and nightly cleaning and closing of the flat top grill.
Assisting with all aspects of events that regularly happen whether it's a meeting that needs coffee and donuts or larger events like providing food for Melodies of Christmas or Fourth of July at the Plaza in Albany every year. I am proud to have assisted with the annual turkey carvings on news stations with Neil Golub for several years. I am also proud I scored top of my class for the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals and am a Certified Food Safety Manager.

• Monitored temperature of cases, shelves and storage areas and reported failures to manager.
• Offered product samples, answered questions and helped customers find items.
• Assisted cashiers with processing customer payments and documenting orders.
• Calibrated instruments and scales in production area and quality lab.
• Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately.

I am proud to have worked at Price Chopper in the Food Court at Altamont Avenue store 175 during a time where we were number one in sales in the chain on a regular basis. I have received numerous personalized thank you's in many forms from my customers which I am also proud of.

Responsibilities included :

• Arranged food items on serving trays and placed in take-out packaging to produce orders for customers.
• Maintained effective supply levels by counting, monitoring and reordering food stock and dry goods.
• Washed, peeled and cut various fruits and vegetables to prepare for serving.
• Performed shift change tasks each day to keep store efficient and neat.
• Maintained clean, sanitized and well-organized food preparation zones.
• Prepared cooking supplies, ingredients and workstations when opening and closing kitchen.
• Cleaned walls, fans and drains in bakery coolers, display cases and work area.
• Replenished condiments, coffee, other beverages and general supplies while maintaining cleanliness of service areas.
• Operated as full-service food provider in the Food Court establishment by taking orders, preparing meals and collecting payments.
• Cooked batches of food according to standard recipes.
• Supported waitstaff and other team members in completing tasks.
• Processed payments and counted change to complete transactions.