What do you do in this profession?
Catering specialists serve guests and act in a service-oriented and sales-promoting manner. For example, they take orders in the restaurant and serve drinks and food, serve drinks at the bar or sell food at the counter. They decorate tables for special occasions and according to the season and set up buffets. In the kitchen, they prepare simple dishes, garnish cold plates or arrange the breakfast buffet. Checking stock levels and the usability of foodstuffs is also one of the tasks of skilled workers for the catering trade.
Important facts
| Occupation: | Recognised training occupation |
| Type of training: | Dual training in the hospitality industry (regulated by training ordinance) |
| Duration: | 2 years |
| Training places of learning: | Training company and vocational school (dual training) |
Requirements:
- Willingness to get in touch, customer and service orientation (e.g. for establishing contact with
customers and guests, responding to guests' wishes and needs) - Ability to remember and calculate (e.g. for taking orders without aids, assigning orders to tables,
preparing the guest bill). - Organisational skills and diligence (e.g. organising events, checking stock levels and the condition
of food). - Good physical condition (e.g. when working while walking or standing)
School subjects:
- Mathematics (e.g. for creating invoices, for cashiering)
- German (e.g. to inform guests about the offers of the house)
- English and other foreign languages (e.g. when advising foreign guests)
- Housekeeping (e.g. for setting the tables and cleaning the dining rooms)
What is important?
Where do you work?
Employment businesses:
Skilled workers for gastronomy find employment primarily
- in catering establishments, e.g. cafés, restaurants or restaurant chains, bars, canteens or catering companies
- in hotels with catering facilities, in the leisure industry and on cruise ships
Work locations:
Specialists for gastronomy work primarily
- in restaurant and guest rooms
- in kitchens and at buffets
- in utility and storage rooms
- at the reception
Which school-leaving certificate is expected?
Legally, no specific school education is required. In the predecessor occupation of skilled worker in the
hospitality industry, companies predominantly hired trainees with a lower secondary school leaving
certificate.
Which is your vocational school?!
- RBB-Müritz in Waren
- www.rbb-waren.de
Where can you do the vocational training?
