Cooks, Fast Food

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Culinary Specialist
Culinary Specialist
Food Service Specialist
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What they do:
Prepare and cook food in a fast food restaurant with a limited menu. Duties of these cooks are limited to preparation of a few basic items and normally involve operating large-volume single-purpose cooking equipment.
On the job, you would:
  • Order and take delivery of supplies.
  • Cook the exact number of items ordered by each customer, working on several different orders simultaneously.
  • Prepare specialty foods, such as pizzas, fish and chips, sandwiches, or tacos, following specific methods that usually require short preparation time.

Knowledge

Business

  • management
  • customer service

Transportation

  • movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road

Communications

  • multimedia

Safety and Government

  • public safety and security

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Social

  • looking for ways to help people

Abilities

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Integrity
  • Cooperation
  • Dependability
  • Social Orientation
  • Self Control
  • Stress Tolerance

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Spreadsheet software

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Point of sale POS software

  • Foodman Home-Delivery
  • Plexis Software Plexis POS

Electronic mail software

  • Microsoft Outlook Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 1 of 5)
high school diploma/GED or
no high school diploma/GED
usually needed

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