Cooks, Short Order Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables.
Cooks, Short Order is Also Know as
In different settings, Cooks, Short Order is titled as
- Caterer
- Cook
- Deli Cook (Delicatessen Cook)
- Food and Beverage Attendant
- Grill Cook
- Line Cook
- Pizza Maker
- Prep Cook (Preparation Cook)
- Short Order Cook
- Snack Bar Cook
Education and Training of Cooks, Short Order
Cooks, Short Order is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Cooks, Short Order
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Cooks, Short Order
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Cooks, Short Order
Training Required for Cooks, Short Order
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Cooks, Short Order in different industries are
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Cooks, Fast Food
- Food Preparation Workers
- Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria
- Fast Food and Counter Workers
- Bakers
- Chefs and Head Cooks
- Cooks, Private Household
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Food Servers, Nonrestaurant
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
- Baristas
- Food Batchmakers
- Dishwashers
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
- Waiters and Waitresses
- Food Service Managers
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
- Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products
What Do Cooks, Short Order do?
- Clean food preparation equipment, work areas, and counters or tables.
- Plan work on orders so that items served together are finished at the same time.
- Grill, cook, and fry foods such as french fries, eggs, and pancakes.
- Take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements.
- Grill and garnish hamburgers or other meats, such as steaks and chops.
- Complete orders from steam tables, placing food on plates and serving customers at tables or counters.
- Order supplies and stock them on shelves.
- Accept payments, and make change or write charge slips as necessary.
- Restock kitchen supplies, rotate food, and stamp the time and date on food in coolers.
- Perform food preparation tasks, such as making sandwiches, carving meats, making soups or salads, baking breads or desserts, and brewing coffee or tea.
- Perform general cleaning activities in kitchen and dining areas.
Qualities of Good Cooks, Short Order
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Tools Used by Cooks, Short Order
- Apple corers
- Bakers' peels
- Blenders
- Boning knives
- Broilers
- Cappuccino makers
- Carbonated beverage dispensers
- Cash registers
- Chefs' knives
- Colanders
- Commercial coffeemakers
- Commercial dishwashers
- Commercial microwave ovens
- Convection ovens
- Deep fat fryers
- Desktop computers
- Double boilers
- Dry or liquid measuring cups
- Electric ovens
- Electric stoves
- Food processors
- Fruit zesters
- Gas ovens
- Gas stoves
- Graters
- Grills
- Hand scanners
- Handheld calculators
- Hot dog cookers
- Ice-making machines
- Instant-read pocket thermometers
- Juice dispensers
- Kitchen tongs
- Knife sharpeners
- Meat slicers
- Melon ballers
- Milkshake and smoothie machines
- Mixers
- Paring knives
- Personal computers
- Pizza ovens
- Point of sale POS computer terminals
- Portion scales
- Rolling pins
- Serrated blade knives
- Sifters
- Slicing machines
- Soft-serve ice cream machines
- Steam kettles
- Steam tables
- Steamers
- Strainers
- Toasters
- Touch screen monitors
- Vegetable brushes
- Vegetable peelers
- Waffle makers
Technology Skills required for Cooks, Short Order
- Aldelo Systems Aldelo for Restaurants Pro
- Foodman Home-Delivery
- Inventory control software
- Plexis Software Plexis POS
- Point of sale POS software
- RestaurantPlus PRO