Nonrestaurant Food Servers
On the Job
Nonrestaurant Food Servers serve food to customers outside of a restaurant. They may work in hospitals, hotels, or residential care facilities.
Physical Demands
This career requires time standing, walking, or running.
Typical Work Tasks
People who work in this career often:
- Assist customers with seating arrangements.
- Arrange food for serving.
- Cook foods.
- Stock serving stations or dining areas with food or supplies.
- Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
- Communicate dining or order details to kitchen personnel.
- Clean tableware.
- Collect dirty dishes or other tableware.
- Move equipment, supplies or food to required locations.
- Record operational or production data.
Typical Working Conditions
- Frequent contact with others.
- Standing.
- Working with a group or team.
- Working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
- The importance of being accurate or exact.
- Responsibility for others' health and safety.
- Freedom to make decisions without supervision.
- Meeting strict deadlines.
- Exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings.
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