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Café assistant

Serves customers in a café: taking orders, making drinks, plating food, cleaning and restocking. A common first job and a great all-round training.

A real shift

Open up, prepare the counter and food displays, serve through the morning and lunch rushes, then clean and close.

Skills that matter

  • Customer service
  • Basic barista skills
  • Till handling
  • Cleaning
  • Food safety

Qualifications

  • No formal requirement
  • Level 2 Food Safety
  • SCA Barista Foundation (useful)

Where it leads

  1. Café assistant
  2. Barista
  3. Café supervisor
  4. Café manager

What we'd ask on the show

  • Your local café's first jobbers
  • Regulars and community
  • Saturday jobs that shaped careers

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