Job Description: At any coffee shop or cafe, you can find a baristamaking your favorite drinks. Ability to work quickly and efficiently.A formal bartending educationmay be required at some restaurants, but many will hire based on experience. Job Description: Restaurant bartenders may serve customers directly or give their creations to servers for delivery, but either way, they must have an excellent memory and work well under pressure. Cashiers must be able to listen when customers have problems or concerns with their orders and respond to their questions appropriately. Job Description: Like the drive-thru operator, cashiers must accurately record a customer’s order as well as handle cash and operate the POS systemto process the transaction. They are also responsible for answering phone calls and scheduling reservations. They must smile and greet customers, then take them to their seats and distribute menus. Job Description: A host or hostessis responsible for the customers' initial reaction in any casual or fine dining restaurant. Responsible for taking orders in a friendly manner, reporting orders to the kitchen, and calculating the bill, servers play an essential role in any casual or fine dining restaurant. Job Description: A good servercan make or break the customer experience. However, a general manager controls both kitchen employees and front-of-house employees, whereas a kitchen manager only manages back-of-house operations. Job Description: Like general managers, kitchen managers are responsible for hiring and firing employees, buying supplies and ingredients, and ensuring quality. They assist the manager with training duties, help with scheduling, oversee employees, and fill in if the manager has the day off. Job Description: Second in command, but not less important, assistant managers are essential for every busy restaurant. The Café was packed, and since the weather had warmed up considerably, we elected to eat outside.Job Description: A good server make or break the customer experience. Recently, Mike and I joined our friends Jack, William and Cory at The Flying Biscuit Café at 2524 Enterprise Drive in Tiger Town. Also, we hunt restaurants that serve homemade biscuits. Since I officially retired from biscuit making at the tender age of 18, Mike and I proudly bake Pillsbury frozen biscuits. What was she thinking? It sounded like a recipe for disaster, and it was. Smith’s decision to have high schoolers make such a biscuit. ![]() Amelia said, “The biscuits blew up in the oven, made a big mess and were inedible.”Īs veteran, retired teachers, Amelia and I now question Mrs. Amelia and the students in her group were given a biscuit recipe that included adding jelly inside the biscuit. Recently, I talked with Amelia about those biscuits we made so long ago. However, they certainly weren’t the melt-in-your-mouth, float-off-the-plate biscuits that my Grandma Patton made. I don’t remember how the biscuits tasted. I was mortified and still bear the scars 42 years later.Īlso, for the first and last time in my life, I made homemade biscuits for a group project. ![]() Smith, our home economics teacher (not her real name), insisted that we model our creations in a class fashion show. ![]() It took me the ENTIRE grading period to make a Kelly green wrap-around skirt. Amelia reminded me that some of the male students made SUITS. I was a terrible seamstress I had not inherited Mother Mac’s (my maternal grandmother) giftedness for making clothes.ĭuring the six weeks, we had to make an article of clothing. I disliked cooking in fact, the last time I loved to cook was on my Easy Bake Oven and 2. I soon learned two important things in home ec.: 1. Thankfully, when my good friend Amelia and I were seniors at Benjamin Russell High School in Alexander City (“Eleck” City to the locals), home ec was still an elective, so we signed up for it. Our home ec teacher taught them how to cook meals, sew, etc. Therefore, our kids had to provide supper for their younger brothers and sisters. Also, some of those students had to help take care of younger siblings when they got home from school because their parents worked the second or third shift. Over 60% of our students lived in poverty. ![]() When the class was dropped, another computer course took its place. One class that has fallen by the wayside is home economics, or “home ec.” When Mike and I taught at Long Cane Middle School in LaGrange, Georgia, home ec was an exploratory or elective class until about 2003.īack then, it was called Family and Consumer Science, a fancy name for home ec. Many changes have come about in education in the last few decades.
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