Entry Level Qualification 

10

Career Fields 

Hospitality, Tourism & Transport Services

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

No Entrance Exam

About Career 

1. A food and beverage assistant specialise in the work related to proper compliance of food safety, handling storage, preparation and sanitation.  As a food and beverage assistant, you may also be working with different food vendors, food purchase department and also associated with all kinds of non-alcoholic beverages.

2. As a food and beverage assistant, you will be working in different kinds of establishments like hotels, restaurants, bars, resorts, cafes, caterers, cruise ships, event planners, etc. where food and drinks are served to clients or guests. As a food and beverage assistant, you may also be required to put your services for sports centers, commercial kitchens, etc. You not only take care of food and quality, but you may also be involved in scheduling staff (waiters, stewards, etc.). You work with your supervisor to ensure total compliance of all kinds of rules and regulations. You assist kitchen staff and waiters, i.e. both side of the servicing.

3. Some of Food and Beverage Assistants may also become a steward. As a steward, you will be assisting kitchen staff in cleaning utensils (both kitchen and used by customers). You will also do an everyday job in the kitchen. You will keep the kitchen clean and refill all cleaning supplies. You will be required to take out trash from the kitchen.

Key roles and responsibilities

As a food and beverage assistant, you would have the following roles and responsibilities:

1. You will be responsible for wiping tables, seats, with clean clothes and then with cleaning agents. You will also replace dirty tablecloths.

2. You will set tables with linen, condiments, silverware, etc.

3. You will keep a track on the food items requested by customers.

4. You will be responsible for scraping and stacking dirty dishes and tableware. You will carry dirty tableware and dishes to the kitchen for cleaning.

5. You will be responsible for performing several duties like serving food, cleaning, stocking in restaurants, dining rooms, cafeterias, etc.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 with English & any other subject as per scheme of studies – Diploma in Food & Beverages Service / Food Production / Guest Service etc.

After class 12, study for an eighteen months Diploma in Food & Beverages Service / Food Production / Guest Service etc.

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Craftmanship course in Food & Beverages Service / Food Production / Guest Service etc.

After class 10, you can study for an eighteen months Craftmanship course in Food & Beverages Service / Food Production / Guest Service etc.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

Undergraduate studies after school

To become a Food & Beverage specialist, you need to complete either Craftmanship course after Class 10 or Diploma in Food & Beverages Service / Food Production / Guest Service / similar field after class 12.

Competencies Required

You should have the following occupational interests:

1. Realistic: You should have interests for Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment.

2. Conventional: You should have interests for Conventional Occupations. Conventional occupations involve repetitive and routine tasks as well as fixed processes or procedures for getting things done. These occupations involve working more with data, systems, and procedures and less with ideas or creativity.

3. Social: You should have interests for Social Occupations. Social occupations involve helping or assisting others; these involve working with and communicating with people to provide various services; these may involve educating and advising others.

Following personality attributes are required:

1. You are always or mostly organised in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You are always or mostly disciplined in your action and behaviour.

3. You are always practical or in most situations.

4. You are always or mostly care about your actions and behaviour.

You should have the following skills and knowledge:

1. Coordination: Skills in working together with other people to get things done.

2. Service Orientation: Skills in or a keen interest to help and assist people.

3. Biological Science: Knowledge of plants and animals, their anatomical structure, cell structure, tissues, physiological functions, evolution, and all other related aspects.

4. Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

5. Customer Service: Knowledge about how to provide customer services. This includes understanding customer needs, helping customers to use products and services, answering customer queries, handling customer complaints and grievances, and evaluating customer satisfaction.

You should have the following aptitudes and abilities:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Speech & Language Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech and language of another person.

4. Physical Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.

5. Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and bodily motion; the ability to keep or regain your body balance when in an unstable position; the ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, hands, arms, fingers, or legs. 

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

1. If you start your career in the restaurant, café, cruise, etc. in the serving department, then you may join as a steward. 

2. If you start your career in the bar, then you may join as a bartender.

3. If you start your career in the kitchen, then you may join as a kitchen assistant / attendant.

You may be working at the following institutions:

1. Restaurants in hotels, like Taj Hotels, Oberoi Hotels, etc.

2. Restaurant chains like KFC, McDonalds, Subway, etc.

3. Motels and highway restaurants.

4. Banquet halls, and dining halls in different cities.

5. Catering departments (wedding and event catering).

6. Cruises.

Work Environment

1. As a Food and Beverage Service worker, you will be working in more of the most demanding service industries. Although most of the restaurants and cafes have 8-9 hours of working, you will be working in a highly demanding time in the evening when there will tell be a lot of people visiting and ordering food. As it is a service industry, you would be expected to maintain a high standard of service. Many times, you will be working late in the evening especially during the weekend.

2. If you are working on a cruise, then for many days you would be far from the land in the water. It can be a challenging role in adapting to a new environment is not easy. In any case, people will expect you to be nice, soft and polite.

Specialisation Tracks In This Career

1. Steward

Steward (commonly known as a waiter) is a specialised worker in restaurants, cafes, cruise, etc. who serves food. The role of a steward is to serve food and beverage to clients, customers and guest at hotels, dining halls, banquet halls, etc. As a steward, you will greet your guest, help them in finding a seat (table), providing them with the menu, taking their order, taking care of any special requirement, serving food, providing all tableware, etc.

2. Guest Service Assistant (Food & Beverage Service)

Guest Service Assistant is specialise mostly working in hotels and cruise who serves customers in their room or around the pool or public area but not a restaurant.

3. Bartender

The bartender is a specialist worming in pubs, hotels and restaurants that serve alcohol. A bartender is a person who mixes different kinds of alcohol to create cocktails, mocktails and serves them to customers.

4. Kitchen Assistant

Kitchen Assistant is a specialist who works in the kitchen area of cafes, cruise, dining hall, restaurant, hotel, etc. to ensure the kitchen is operational and clean. Some of you may also be assisting chefs in preparing the basic material for the food. However, most of you will be involved in keeping the kitchen clean, washing utensils and dishes, sorting and storing ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting vegetables, and fruits, disposing of rubbishes and waste and organizing linen laundry.

Career Growth

1. If you start your career as a steward, then you will become a Caption and then Senior Captain. Finally, you may become a Food & Beverage Supervisor and then Manager.

2. If you start your career as a bartender, then you will become a senior bartender and then bar supervisor and then finally bar manager.

Salary Offered  

1. At the start of your career you will be earning anything between Rs. 8,000 to 15,000 per month. A bartender with skills might be earning on the higher side.

2. At the junior level with a work experience of 2-6 years, you would be earning anything between 15,000 INR to 25,000 per month. A bartender with skills might be earning on the higher side.

3. At the middle level with an experience of 10-12 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 25,000 to 50,000 per month. A bartender with skills might be earning on the higher side.

4. At the senior level of over 15 years of work experience, you would be earning anything between Rs. 40,000 to 70,000 per month. A bartender with skills might be earning on the higher side.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also in the near future, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and in some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job).

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

As a food and beverage assistant, based on your jobs and responsibilities you will be having the following work activities:  

1. Getting Information: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

2. Working directly with people: Working directly with people to offer them products and services, providing assistance, etc.

3. Identifying objects, actions, and events: Identifying various characteristics of objects; observing and understanding actions and events; understanding changes in actions and events.

4. Handling and moving objects and materials: Using hands or otherwise use physical strength to handle and move objects and materials; manoeuvre, install, lift, place, manipulate, etc.