Food Service Worker - Full-Time
About The Position
The Food Service Worker maintains safe, accurate, and timely staff and patient meal service while ensuring high standards of sanitation, cashiering accuracy, and food production. The role supports Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s mission and values through teamwork, excellence, respect, compassion, and customer service. The position involves assembling and delivering patient meals, serving cafeteria patrons and catered events, maintaining clean service and work areas, operating dishwashing and cashiering equipment, and preparing certain food items. The worker follows safe food-handling, temperature-control, storage, and sanitation practices, and assists patients with daily meal selections. The role reports directly to the Food Service Supervisor. Work takes place in office or patient areas and in a kitchen, with occasional exposure to high noise, slippery floors, hot equipment, heat, humidity, and possible burns from a grill.
Requirements
- Ability to read, understand, and follow written and verbal instructions for food preparation and service and to perform non-complex mathematical calculations; skills are normally acquired through completion of elementary school.
- Approximately one to three months of on-the-job experience to become familiar with basic food preparation techniques, cafeteria procedures, and department policies.
- Interpersonal skills to courteously greet patients, employees, visitors, and other cafeteria patrons.
- Basic analytical skills to portion food appropriately for patient trays and stock food stations.
- Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail when entering customer charges, receiving money, making change, counting and weighing food, and working on the tray line.
Responsibilities
- Provide timely, efficient, and accurate patient tray-line setup and meal assembly.
- Set up and serve the cafeteria, cashier stations, and catered events courteously and promptly.
- Deliver patient meals to nursing units and retrieve them safely and expediently.
- Maintain sanitation and cleanliness of service ware, pots, pans, equipment, work areas, and service areas; operate the dish machine.
- Prepare toast, salads, desserts, and other items requiring basic food preparation, following directions and established quantities.
- Operate the cash register accurately, maintain the proper cash-drawer balance, and obtain additional change as needed.
- Refill coffee, juice, and milk dispensers and stock the cafeteria with food and non-food supplies.
- Follow safe food-handling practices, maintain appropriate food temperatures, use established storage practices, and sustain a sanitary work environment.
- Assist patients with making daily meal selections as necessary.
- Perform other duties assigned in the best interest of SRAlab.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits program described as competitive with industry peers in the geographic locations; eligibility varies by position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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