The Food Service Technician performs routine duties in the cafeteria such as stocking supplies, setting up food lines, operating the cash register, cooking short-order grill items, and portioning food to customers in order to ensure customer satisfaction. This role follows established protocols in order to maintain a clean and sanitary work environment in the cafeteria. Essential Job Function • Helps prepare and serve food according to recipes and standard procedures in order to ensure that the food production is correct and that food waste is minimized. • Helps process customer's and patient's meal orders and ensures they adhere to special diet requests in order to deliver high-quality food service. • Assembles food trays, delivers food trays, and removes food trays from units following all meals in an efficient and quick way. • Maintains proper sanitation of the department by cleaning pots, pans, service ware, equipment, walls, doors, and floors, and properly removing any trash. • Helps keep track of the amount of meals served, cashier reports, and inventory in order to keep inventory up-to-date and effectively document business processes. • Follows standard recipes and utilizes specified preparation techniques in order to comply with diet requirements and, when needed, provide a compliant food substitution for modified diets. • Follows established procedures for the proper storage of food supplies and equipment. • Performs other duties as assigned. Education • Preferred: High School Diploma or equivalent experience Experience Licensure/Certification/Listing