Job Title: Cafeteria Associate /Cashier
Duration: Long Term
Location: NYC, NY 10065
Shift varies from 5 am-11 pm Monday – Friday and 5 am - 9 pm Saturday and Sunday. Must be open to working holidays
Job Summary:
Performs a variety of food service functions to ensure quality food and service to patients, staff, and visitors in the Main Cafeteria and in the cafeteria satellites (i.e., OR Lounge, Starbucks, Cyber Café, and BAIC.
Job Responsibility Detail:
- Sets up, maintains, and breaks down workstation, including equipment, serving ware, utensils, supplies, and food items, so that assigned station(s) are ready for service.
- Completes requisition forms for needed food and supplies for meal service; secures approval from Cafeteria Supervisor; submits requisition to storeroom clerks.
- Obtains food/supply order from the storeroom and checks against requisition for accuracy and completeness.
- Reviews menu offerings for the station and sets up the station with all appropriate equipment, serving ware, utensils, supplies, and food items as per the menu and station’s checklist. -Posts signage for corresponding menu items.
- Stores food and supplies to be used during service in designated storage areas as per the station’s checklist.
- Prior to service, conducts an inspection of the assigned station according to the station’s checklist and reports deficiencies to the supervisor.
- Replenishes food and supplies of the station to par level throughout the shift to ensure availability throughout the meal period.
- Completes breakdown of station after each meal period according to the station’s checklist.
- Prepares and serves food items to patrons, adhering to established departmental guidelines.
- Reviews food prior to service to ensure food offerings meet established standards for acceptable quality, appearance, presentation, portion sizes, and temperature.
- Monitors consistency of food quality, appearance, and temperature at the service station.
- Takes off the service station food items that do not meet established standards for acceptable food quality, appearance, and temperature and reports to supervisor; replaces with items that meet established standards; notifies supervisor of items that do not meet standards.
- Serves food items according to others' requests within departmental-established guidelines.
- Advises the supervisor of any feedback received about food quality. -As required by station assignment, prepares food items to meet established preparation guidelines (i.e., established portion sizes, according to production sheets).
- Transacts food purchases utilizing a cash register.
- Picks up the assigned bank from the personal vault or manager and verifies the bank amount. Immediately reports any discrepancies to management. Signs on to register with their own name and transfers bank content into the register cash drawer.
- Transacts all cash and charge sales of food utilizing a computerized cash register system (i.e., Infogenesis) according to established department policies.
- Collects all money and Client food service vouchers and puts them in the cash register drawer.
- Requests payment and returns any needed change accurately to patrons.
- Monitors change levels and obtains changes from Client cashiers to maintain operational change levels.
- Signs off from register, replenishes assigned bank to original amount, and changes amounts.
- Records on deposit tally the amount of money to be deposited.
- Deposits money at Client cashiers or in the cafeteria safe when the main cashier office is closed.
- Returns the assigned bank to the personal vault or manager on duty at the end of the shift.
- Enters the amount of deposit into the computerized cash register system.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Beginner-level Math Calculations.
Required Education:
- High School Diploma / GED.
