What do you do in this profession?
Restaurant and event catering professionals set and decorate tables, welcome guests and make recommendations for food and beverage choices. In doing so, they cater to the individual wishes and needs of the guests. Furthermore, they take orders, serve food and drinks, prepare the bill and cash up. They often also work at the bar and drinks buffet, preparing and serving drinks. They also organise meetings and special events such as weddings or banquets and ensure that everything runs smoothly.
Important facts
| Occupation: | Recognised training occupation |
| Type of training: | Dual training in the hospitality industry (regulated by training ordinance) |
| Duration: | 3 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 contacts with customers and guests, when responding to guests' wishes and needs).
- Retention and calculation skills (e.g. for taking orders without aids, preparing the guest bill).
- Commercial thinking and organisational skills (e.g. when calculating the costs of festivities and
events, for hosting festivities). - Good physical condition (e.g. when working while walking or standing)
School subjects:
- Mathematics (e.g. for the preparation of invoices and cashiering)
- German (e.g. for guest counselling and correspondence)
- English (e.g. for contact with foreign guests)
What is important?
Where do you work?
Employment businesses:
Restaurant and event catering professionals find employment
- in restaurants, hotels, inns and guesthouses
- at catering companies and in community catering companies
- for trade fair, event or congress organisers
Work locations:
Restaurant and event catering specialists primarily work in guest and event rooms, e.g. in dining rooms, at buffets or behind the bar. In addition, they may also work at the pass (transition between kitchen and service), in the magazine (warehouse) or in offices and meeting rooms.
Which school-leaving certificate is expected?
Legally, no specific school education is required. In practice, companies predominantly hired trainees
with an intermediate school-leaving certificate or a lower secondary school-leaving certificate*
for the pre-apprenticeship occupation of restaurant specialist.
Which is your vocational school?!
- RBB-Müritz in Waren
- www.rbb-waren.de
Where can you do the vocational training?
