Polyvalent catering employee

The polyvalent employee is to prepare and serve meals in food catering companies, snacking or specialties. He is also to clean premises, utensils and supplies. She / He is to do the setting-up and serving for the clients.
After a deep professional practice, the polyvalent catering agent will go for positions such as cook, first cook, chef, chef manager or saling manager. She / He nevertheless will have to specialize her / his knowledge in management, hygiene and human management along intensive professional training.

Required qualities :

• Socializing
• Irreproachable hygiene
• Organized in work
• Quick working
• Respect for hierarchy
• Neatness

Restaurant pastry cook

The restaurant pastry cook is a cook specialized in salted and sweet entremets and desserts in the restaurant. He makes instant dessert often presented “on the plate” (to be eaten right away).
The pastry cook is in charge of the delivery and making of desserts in the restaurant. He can have a promotion as head chef or manage all the pastry department. Her / His double specialization (dessert and traditional cooking) can reward her / him lovely future opportunities, especially abroad.

Required qualities :

• Team spirit
• Perfectionism and precision
• Physical resistance
• Being open-mind and creative
• Irreproachable hygiene

Delicatessen caterer

The delicatessen caterer proposes to the client a large panel of specialties and dishes always removed. She / He prepares buffets and celebrations with great care (menu, presentation, table layout, etc.)
The caterer can work in a shop, a restaurant or for companies specialized in receptions / gourmet buffets. According to her / his skills, she / he will go for executive positions or have her / his own business.

Required qualities :

• Socializing
• Team spirit
• Project spirit
• Creative spirit
• Neatness
  

Barman

The barman or barmaid are in charge of beverage service. But they also embody the soul of the place they work for. They greet and advise clients, prepare and serve drinks, make cocktails and often participate to the decoration of the bar, as well as music programmation. .
The barman / barmaid can work in France or abroad, most of the times in touristic areas. After a few year experience, a help or apprentice barman / barmaid can be promoted barman / barmaid then head of bartenders for deluxe places. An extra training in management very often enable to have one’s own business.

Required qualities :

• Socializing
• Excellent look
• Physical resistance
• Imaginative and creative spirit
• Being fond of foreign languages