Fast-Food Cook What They Do
Prepares and cooks food in a fast food restaurant with a limited menu. Duties are typically limited to one or two basic items requiring short preparation time and normally involve operating large-volume, single-purpose cooking equipment.
This career is part of the Hospitality and Tourism cluster Restaurants and Food and Beverage Services pathway.
A person in this career:
- Prepares specialty foods, such as pizzas, burgers, fries, sandwiches, and tacos.
- Receives verbal or written food order and prepares food according to instructions.
- Measures ingredients required for food items being prepared.
- Prepares dough.
- Cleans food preparation areas and equipment.
- Prepares and serves beverages, such as coffee and fountain drinks.
- Serves orders to customers at a window or counter.
- Maintains sanitation, health and safety standards in work areas.
- Operates cooking equipment such as grills, deep fryers or griddles.
- Washes, cuts and prepares food designated for cooking.
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Working Conditions and Physical Demands
People who do this job report that:
- You would often handle loads up to 20 lbs., sometimes up to 50 lbs. You might do a lot of lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling.
- Work in this occupation involves bending or twisting your body more than one-third of the time
- Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
- Exposed to hazardous situations involving possible injury such as cuts, bites, stings, and minor burns more than once a month
- Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
- Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting
- Work in this occupation involves making repetitive motions more than one-third of the time
- Work in this occupation involves standing more than one-third of the time
- Work in this occupation involves walking or running more than one-third of the time
Working in this career involves (physical activities):
- Identifying and understanding the speech of another person
- Using abdominal and lower back muscles repeatedly or over time without tiring
Work Hours and Travel
- Rotating shift work
- Weekend work
Specialty and Similar Careers
Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:
- Baker, Pizza -- Prepares and bakes pizza pies.
- Cook, Specialty -- Prepares specialty foods, such as fish and chips, tacos, and pasties (Cornish meat pies) according to recipe and specific methods applicable to type of cookery. May serve orders to customers at window or counter. May prepare and serve beverages, such as coffee, clam nectar, and fountain drinks. May be required to exercise showmanship in preparation of food, such as flipping pancakes in air to turn or tossing pizza dough in air to lighten texture. May be designated according to food item prepared as Cook, Fish and Chips (hotel & rest.).
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