Food and beverage attendant

SWL or Work Experience Opportunity for students interested in hospitality and cookery. (Rhyll, Phillip Island)

Students will gain hands-on experience in the OutBack Chef Wild Food Farm Cafe and store, assisting industry-qualified chefs in the kitchen and baristas in the front-of-house and retail team.
Dates can be negotiated.

Jude Mayall, owner of Outback Chef, is an industry advisor, author of The OutbackChef cookbook and a regular guest speaker and educator. She owns and runs the Wild Food Farm and Cafe in Rhyll, on Philip Island. The Wild Food Farm Cafe is a friendly place where locals and visitors can relax and enjoy our ever-changing menu of modern Australian cuisine inspired by native bush ingredients.

Jude is an industry advisor and her talks and cooking demonstrations celebrate the power and beauty of Australian native bush flavours as well as embracing the rich history and the importance that these outback bush edibles play today in shaping dishes that are uniquely Australian. Jude works with many chefs, cooks, distillers and organisations as a consultant/demonstrator showing how easily it is to incorporate Australian native food into their cooking and products. She has cooked at outback mines, worked with the indigenous children at Tiwi College on their healthy eating program and at Maningrida on spice mixes incorporating their unique bush flavours, has conducted bush food cooking classes teaching the teachers at the Stephanie Alexander cooking program and is a regular educator at William Angliss College, Melbourne.

https://www.outbackchef.com.au/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwRDBmQblPg

Skills You Might Learn

Experience and Knowledge in:
- Cooking Techniques
- Coffee Making
- Menu Planning and Development
- Kitchen Management
- Plating and Presentation
- Customer Service
- Learning to become a responsible and effective team member
- Knowledge about working in a hospitality tourism environment
- Safe work practices
- Achieve a greater understanding of the demands of the hospitality/tourism-orientated business, as well as the rewards of being part of this industry
- Knowledge of the wide variety of job roles that the business offers (from horticulture, gardening, hospitality, cookery, event management, retail, marketing, to business management)
- Skills in event management (e.g. weddings, birthdays, corporate events)
- Skills in marketing & promotional opportunities, including the online wholesale store
- Learn more about Australian native foods

Typical Tasks & Duties

- Food and beverage attendant
- Serving Customers
- Front-of-house duties
- Cleaning
- Clearing Tables
- Taking orders and using the register
- Food Preparation
- Kitchen hand duties
- Learning to use the coffee machine
- Money Handling
- Retail (face-to-face, online and wholesale)

Student Requirements

- Motivated, curious
- Positive can-do attitude
- Enthusiasm for hospitality/cookery
- Enthusiastic about gaining hands-on experience
- Willingness to learn, collaborate with colleagues and contribute to team goals
- Open to receiving feedback and willing to learn from experiences
- Punctual, reliable, and committed
- Demonstrates professionalism and maintains confidentiality when handling sensitive information

Dress Requirements

Dress appropriately for the position. Comfortable Closed Shoes.

Special Transport Requirements

Own transport required