Cooks, Restaurant
Also called:
Cook, Line Cook, Prep Cook (Preparation Cook), Grill Cook
What they do:
Prepare, season, and cook dishes such as soups, meats, vegetables, or desserts in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.
On the job, you would:
- Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment and work surfaces, or serving areas to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices.
- Ensure food is stored and cooked at correct temperature by regulating temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
- Ensure freshness of food and ingredients by checking for quality, keeping track of old and new items, and rotating stock.
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- food production
- manufacture and distribution of products
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Social
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
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Hand and Finger Use
- hold or move items with your hands
- keep your arm or hand steady
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- order or arrange things
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People interested in this work like activities that include
practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Dependability
- Self Control
- Attention to Detail
- Cooperation
- Stress Tolerance
- Concern for Others
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You might use software like this on the job:
Point of sale POS software
- Point of sale POS restaurant software
Data base user interface and query software
Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
- Recipe cost control software
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high school diploma or
some high school
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$22,080
per year, on average
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