Cooks can be subdivided into cooks, pastry chefs and cold plating (including food carving) and so on.
Restaurant services include two types of front and backstage, the front including various restaurants, banquet halls, bars, cafes, etc., the backstage including the kitchen, washing, purchasing, custodial, accounting and so on. In the catering service in the restaurant service occupies an important position, generally engaged in catering service personnel are known as restaurant waiter, the division of labor has led the table, the table, the table, the account of the table, passing food, clothes and hats service, and so on. There are six work tasks; tray, mouth cloth folding flower, pavement, pouring wine, serving and sharing dishes. Each job has specific requirements and procedures.
Engaged in outside the beverage industry, whether as a chef or a restaurant waiter, there should be a strong sense of service correct service attitude; enthusiasm, cheerful, optimistic mental qualities; national self-esteem and national pride; can strictly abide by the professional discipline; can consciously resist the corrosion of spiritual pollution and money.
In terms of cultural knowledge: to have a junior high school education; understanding of psychology, sociology; with a certain amount of raw materials, nutrition, health and business management knowledge; if working in foreign hotels, but also have a certain amount of foreign language conversational skills. The waiter should not only have enough understanding of the restaurant business meals and drinks, but also on the dietary knowledge, culture, in order to meet the needs of different masses, different levels of customers.
In terms of physiology, it is required to have a sensitive sense of taste and smell, quick reaction to movement, and strong coordination between hands and eyes. No color blindness, no bad breath, no stuttering, no skin disease, no infectious diseases. For the waiter also requires proper features, speech fluency.
The catering industry is a window industry, requiring practitioners must have good personal grooming. Focus on instrumentation, neat and generous, know the etiquette. Dress appropriately, fit and proper, and maintain a full state of mind.