By Bree McFarlane

Job Description

1) Determine how food should be presented, and create decorative food displays.

2) Determine production schedules and staff requirements necessary to ensure timely delivery of services.

3) Estimate amounts and costs of required supplies, such as food and ingredients.

4) Inspect supplies, equipment, and work areas to ensure conformance to established standards.

5) Instruct cooks and other workers in the preparation, cooking, garnishing, and presentation of food.

6) Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations.

Personal Attributes

• Stamina- Being able to keep going after long hours.• Organisation- Making sure a chef has everything ready before he/she start

cooking.• Flexibility- Being able to work with pressure especially when you have not very

many staff on and knowing how everything works in the restaurant or cafe.• Creativity- Chef needs to be creative to attract customers to want to eat their

food and also make it look good at the same time.• Teamwork- A chef needs a team to rely on to be able to deal with customers and

help prepare the food for the customers and serve customers while food is cooking.

• Customer focus- A chef knows that their customers want fresh, delicious, presented attractively food and for the chef to be able to handle any complaints or special inquires customers have.

• Desire to learn- Chefs must have a desire to learn new techniques to cooking and preparing food and dealing with customers and also learning new recipes along the way of their career.

Qualifications and training required

Job Qualifications Where

Chef Certificate III Hospitality

Open UniversityAustralia30 Collins St,Melbourne VIC 3000

Salary & Job Prospects

Job Salary Prospects

Chef 34,000 – 60,000 Excellent job opportunities for a chef, skilled chefs, cooks and apprentices are in high demand

ICT Use

• Chefs and cooks use ICT skills to make and to plan menu’s for the future for special occupations and for different seasons, make invitations, putting pictures of delicious prepared food that they have on their menu.

• Hardware they use is – PC, hard-drive, screen, USB port, keyboard, mouse, buttons, cables and switches.

• Software they use is – Microsoft, spread sheet, calculator, documents, PowerPoint, Internet, Pictures, windows fax and scan and notebook

Thankyou

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