Food Service Worker

UCLA Luskin Conference Center; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join UCLA's dining service team as a food service worker where you will provide excellent customer service while preparing food and maintaining cleanliness. This role requires strong teamwork skills, an understanding of food sanitation, and a commitment to uphold hospitality standards.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Comprehensive benefits

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• Ability to stand, climb, stoop, push and crouch for extended periods.
• Ability to lift items up to fifty pounds.
• Ability to operate various food service equipment.

Responsibilities

• Perform food preparation and customer service duties.
• Maintain cleanliness of work areas and dining room.
• Ensure food items are completed and presented correctly.

Skills

Customer service

Food sanitation

Time management

Teamwork

Basic math skills

Tools

Food processors

Mixers

Meat slicers

Blenders

Warewashing equipment

Job description

Under the direction of the Dining Service Managers or Production Staff, provide our guests with courteous and gracious service. Perform food preparation, customer service, sanitation and other food service duties. Prepare single step cold food preparation according to standardized recipes and approved preparation and production methods. Wash, trim, cut and pan meats and vegetables. Cut and arrange desserts. Ensure that all food items are completed according to schedule and presented to customers at the proper temperature and with the appropriate garnishment. Store, seal, and label food for storage. Load and deliver food to other dining facilities. Set-up and maintain cleanliness of work areas and dining room. Sweep and mop floors. Maintain cleanliness and storage of preparation equipment, plates, silverware, glassware, pots, pans and service utensils. Clean and replenish salt and pepper shakers, napkin dispensers and ketchup in guest seating areas. Assist in organization of refrigerator, freezers and storage rooms. Launder, sort and fold smocks, uniforms and towels. Remove all trash from tables and floor areas. Perform other duties as assigned.

Working hours vary, includes nights and weekends.

At UCLA Housing & Hospitality Services (H&HS), you become part of UCLA’s tradition of excellence by providing quality housing, dining, and hospitality services to student-residents, faculty, staff, and campus visitors.

We believe there’s more to a job than simply being employed. In addition to competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and retirement plans, H&HS team members enjoy significant opportunities for professional and personal growth in a supportive work environment.

No matter what your role, you will join more than 2,+ H&HS team members who understand that our motto Hospitality First! means that a warm, gracious attitude makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve.

AMAZING BENEFITS Starting Day One!

Learn more : Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Ability to read, understand and speak English sufficient to determine and carry out job duties.
• Skill in interacting effectively with guests and team members and managers in a high volume public contact setting using positive body language, direct eye contact, active listening, problem solving techniques.
• Ability to interact in a team based environment.
• Ability to perform effectively under conditions of fluctuating workload.
• Skill in adding and subtracting whole numbers, decimals and fractions sufficient to properly adhere to production and customer flow parameters.
• Ability to stand, climb, stoop, push and crouch for extended periods of time as required to complete job duties.
• Ability to occasionally lift items weighing up to fifty pounds such as bags of supplies, filled stock pots, cases of food products.
• Ability to measure dry and liquid food stuffs in units of measurement such as cup, pint, quart, pound, and oz to properly adhere to recipe and production requirements.
• Ability to operate equipment such as mixers, food processors, food cutters, meat slicers, blenders, hot wells, radio communication devices, hydraulic lifts, trash compactors, warewashing, garbage disposal, refuse pulper equipment.
• Ability to learn and apply the rules and procedures of sanitation and safety as they apply to production, storage and service within a food establishment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to stand continuously throughout an eight hour shift on uncarpeted surfaces.

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