DELI, BAKERY AND HOT FOODS
Deli / Bakery/ Hot Food
To offer the best customer experience possible while customers are shopping your store.
Basic Skills Min. age 18 to work with slicers-ovens
· Assist customers with their orders for a variety of deli, bakery and hot food services.
· Talking to others to convey information effectively.
· Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
· Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
· Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
· Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
· Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, frying, such as preparing cold foods and slicing meat and cheese.
Social Skills
· Actively looking for ways to help people.
· Have an outgoing personality
· Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
· Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
· Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Task
· Merchandise displays to capture the “WOW†factor.
· Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
· Build trustful relationships with customers to encourage return visits: your interaction and the quality of the product.
· Stock product and product displays according to merchandising standards.
· Ensure quality, service given and products for customers is followed with safety and sanitation protocols.
· Provide product suggestions, samples and assist customers with special orders.
· While customers are present your full attention is focused on their needs and wants.
· Have knowledge of what your selling, meats and cheese along with salads and desserts. This way you can inform the customer if questions arise.
· Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, utensils, dishes, or silverware.
· Store food in designated containers at the correct temperatures and storage areas to prevent spoilage.
· Portion and wrap the food.
· Take and record temperature of food and food storage areas, such as refrigerators and freezers.
· Prepare a variety of foods, such as meats, vegetables, or desserts, according to supervisors' instructions, following approved procedures.
· Package take-out foods or serve customers in line.
· Stock cupboards and refrigerators, and tend salad bars, hot bars.
· Wash, peel, and cut various foods, such as fruits and vegetables, to prepare for cooking or serving.
· Carry food supplies, equipment, and utensils to and from storage and work areas.
· Cut, slice or grind meat, poultry, and seafood to prepare for cooking.
· Remove trash and clean kitchen garbage containers.
· Weigh or measure ingredients.
· Receive and store food supplies, equipment, and utensils in refrigerators, cupboards, and other storage areas.
System Skills
· Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
· Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
· Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Resource Management Skills
· Managing one's own time
· Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Work Activities
· Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
· Getting Information
· Handling and Moving Objects
· Performing General Physical Activities
· Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
· Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
· Selling or Influencing Others
· Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
· Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
· Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Detailed Work Activities
· Attach identification information to products, items or containers.
· Calculate costs of goods or services.
· Clean facilities or equipment.
· Discuss goods or services information with customers or patrons.
· Distribute materials to employees or customers.
· Inspect shipments to ensure correct order fulfillment.
· Monitor inventories of products or materials.
· Receive shipments.
· Stock supplies or merchandise.
Tools
· Pallet trucks
o Manual pallet jacks
· Baling press
o Baling equipment
· Bar code reader equipment
o Barcode scanners
o Hobart Scales
· Dollies
o Warehouse dollies
· Label dispensers
o Pricing guns
· Ladders
o Stepladders
· Laser printers
o Computer laser printers
· Razor knives
o Box cutters
· Utility Equipment
· Safety cutters
· Fryer
· Ovens and Proofers