Associate, Cafeteria

Shift Varies: 5:00 AM 11: PM Monday -Friday and 5:00 AM 9:00 om Saturday and Sunday, must be Open to working Holidays.

Job Summary:

Performs a variety of food service functions to ensure quality food and service to patients, staff, and visitors in the Main Cafeteria and in the cafeteria satellites (i.e., OR Lounge, Starbucks, Cyber Caf and BAIC.

Job Responsibility Detail:

• Sets up, maintains, and breaks down workstation including equipment, serving ware, utensils, supplies and food items, so that assigned station(s) are ready for service.
• Completes requisition forms for needed food and supplies for meal service; secures approval from Cafeteria Supervisor; submits requisition to storeroom clerks.
• Obtains food/supply order from storeroom and checks against requisition for accuracy and completeness.
• Reviews menu offerings for station and sets up station with all appropriate equipment, serving ware, utensils, supplies, and food items as per menu and station s checklist.
• Posts signage for corresponding menu items. -Stores food and supplies to be used during service in designated storage areas as per station s checklist.
• Prior to service, conducts an inspection of assigned station according to station s checklist and reports deficiencies to supervisor.
• Replenishes food and supplies of station to par level throughout shift to ensure availability throughout meal period.
• Completes breakdown of station after each meal period according to station s checklist.
• Prepares and serves food items to patrons adhering to established departmental guidelines.
• Reviews food prior to service to ensure food offerings meet established standards for acceptable quality, appearance, presentation, portion sizes and temperature.
• Monitors consistency of food quality, appearance and temperature at the service station.
• Takes off the service station food items that do not meet established standards for acceptable food quality, appearance and temperature and reports to supervisor; replaces with items that meet established standards; notifies supervisor of items that do not meet standards.
• Serves food items according to other's request within departmental established guidelines.
• Advises supervisor of any feedback received about food quality.
• As required by station assignment, prepares food items to meet established preparation guidelines (i.e., established portion sizes, according to production sheets). -Transacts food purchases utilizing cash register.
• Picks-up assigned bank from personal vault or manager and verifies bank amount.
• Immediately reports any discrepancies to management.
• Signs on to register with own name and transfers bank content into register cash drawer.
• Transacts all cash and charge sales of food utilizing computerized cash register system (i.e. Infogenesis) according to established department policies.
• Collects all money and MSKCC food service vouchers and puts them in cash register drawer. -Requests payment and return any needed change accurately to patrons.
• Monitors change levels and obtains changes from MSKCC cashiers to maintain operational change levels.
• Signs off from register, replenishes assigned bank to original amount and change amounts.
• Records on deposit tally amount of money to be deposited.
• Deposits money at MSKCC cashiers or in cafeteria safe when main cashier office is closed.
• Returns assigned bank to personal vault or manager on duty at end of shift. -Enters amount of deposit into computerized cash register system

Shift Varies: 5:00 AM 11: PM Monday -Friday and 5:00 AM 9:00 om Saturday and Sunday, must be Open to working Holidays.