Food Servers


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Food Servers

Food Servers - Skills and Abilities

Waiters and waitresses need to:

Communicate

  • Understand spoken information.
  • Speak clearly so listeners can understand.
  • Listen to others and ask questions.

Reason and Problem Solve

  • Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
  • Concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task.
  • Use reasoning to discover answers to problems.

Manage Oneself, People, Time, and Things

  • Go back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information without becoming confused.
  • Check how well one is learning or doing something.

Work with People

  • Look for ways to help people.
  • Be aware of others’ reactions and understand the possible causes.
  • Change behavior in relation to others’ actions.
Source: Illinois Career Information System (CIS) brought to you by Illinois Department of Employment Security.