Kitchen and Cafeteria Helper

Responsibilities

• Assists in all phases of food preparation as directed while maintaining a clean and safe kitchen and cafeteria area.
• Assists in preparing, servicing and transporting patient trays, snacks or supplements.
• Retrieves patient trays, washing and storing as necessary.
• Serves cafeteria customers by arranging and stocking food items on cafeteria counter.
• Checks temperature of food on cafeteria steam tables and refills or restocks condiments and other items as needed.
• Takes temperature for refrigerators, freezers and temperatures of food prior to meal served.
• Cleans preparation area and equipment.
• Operates cash register, collects payments from customers in cafeteria and records cash after each snack and meal period.
• Auxiliaries in preparation, serving and clean-up of catered meals.
• Auxiliaries in vending machines operation as needed.
• Performs cleaning of dishes and other meal serving utensils including scraping, racking, hand-washing of dishes, trays, and silverware.
• Assists on trayveyor line during patient tray service period.
• May assist in storing staple goods or other supplies.
• Disposes all garbage accumulated during assigned shift and cleans garbage cans and area.
• May clean pots and pans as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education Level: High School Diploma Preferred
• Experience: Up To 1 Year Preferred
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Adaptable to problem solving and decision making skills