Apprenticeship period: 3 years

Ongoing To Do's

• Welcoming guests and accompanying them to the table
• Lay out clean table linen, place cutlery, plates, glasses and table decorations
• Presenting food and drink menus, advising guests, taking individual wishes into account
• Taking and forwarding orders
• Receiving food and drinks from kitchen and bar staff and serving them at the table
• carry out additional work in upscale gastronomy such as filleting, carving, flambéing
• Serving plates, cutlery and glasses, issuing invoices, collecting invoice amounts
• Say goodbye to guests, prepare tables for the next guests
• Take table reservations and advance orders
• Putting together food and drink menus
• Settle daily sales
• Check stock levels, replenish and reorder
• prepare and supervise special gastronomic events (e.g. weddings, banquets)

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