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Food Service Workers at the NIH perform a variety of food service tasks in the areas of meal assembly and service, dishwashing, sanitation and safety. These employees set up cafeteria tray lines steam-tables, dining room tables, and side service stands with hot and cold food items and with dishes, silverware, napkins, condiments, salads, desserts, bread and beverages. Food Service Workers also may work at assembly stations on the tray lines; read the tray assembly tickets and place the correct foods on trays as customers proceed along the tray line; load trays on delivery carts; operate elevators to deliver carts to patient care units; deliver meals, picnics, and supplies to patient rooms and outpatient clinics, and remove used trays from patient rooms and return them to the kitchen for dishwashing.  Food Service Workers operate mechanical dishwashers, clean equipment and kitchen areas, and unload food from delivery trucks.  These positions require knowledge of basic arithmetic in order to count the tables and meal trays required or determine the number of servings in a container; and knowledge of sanitation standards and equipment cleaning.  

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