Kitchen Helpers
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Job description
These individuals assist the cook in preparing meals. They carry out simple tasks to accelerate meal preparation. They weigh, measure, and prepare ingredients. They wash and peel fruits and vegetables. They clean cooking utensils and workstations. They work in:
Restaurants Cafés Hotels Fast food counters Cafeterias Hospital centres
Environment
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Humidity
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
Main tasks
- Carry out basic preparations for certain dishes.
- Monitor dishes as they cook.
- Assist with setting up dishes or platters.
- Distribute supplies and food trays, as required.
- Place leftovers in containers and store food for preservation.
- Receive and store kitchen products.
- Take out the garbage and clean the garbage cans in the kitchen.
Advancement and mobility
- There is a high degree of mobility among the jobs in this group.
- Additional training and experience lead to other food service occupations.
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- A few years of secondary school education are usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Time management
- Coordination
- Equipment maintenance
- Operations and control
- Data collection
- Oral expression
- Active learning
- Systems evaluation
- Quality control analysis
- Result evaluation
- Monitoring operations
- Science
- Material resource management
- System analysis
- Operation analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Equipment selection
Abilities
- Hand-arm stability
- Wrist-finger speed
- Digital dexterity
- Manual dexterity
- Selective attention
- Information organization
- Control accuracy
- Dynamic strength
- Dynamic physical flexibility
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Overall coordination of the body
- Oral comprehension
- Written comprehension
- Information processing speed
- Time sharing
- Overall balance of the body
- Limb coordination
- Reaction time
- Near vision
- Static muscle power
- Basic numeracy
- Processing flexibility
- Verbal skills
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Autonomy
- Capacity to work in a team
- Versatility
- Sense of initiative
- Tolerance to stress
- Availability
- Tolerance to frequent temperature variations
- Tolerance to routine work
- Timeliness
Interests
- Work in hotels, restaurants, and tourism
- Work manually
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations (CNP 65201)
Skill type
Sales and service
Last update: January 29, 2026
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