I got a Job!
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WarriorForChrist
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I just got a job in food prep at a retirement home today. I start next monthI'm excited! Does anyone with food experience have advice for me?
Don't eat the food.
That might actually be hard for me lol. As long as they give me a lunch break I think I should be fine.Don't eat the food.
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Eat when you're hungry.I just got a job in food prep at a retirement home today. I start next month
Eat only yummy foods.
Don't go for seconds unless you have room.
I have food experience, just never worked in the kitchen for money. lol
Congratulations. The only advice I can give you is wear comfy shoes and double check the trays before sending them out. (Quite often, someone forgot the meat, the vegetables or something to drink, when they brought him trays when he was in a nursing home.) Oh, and be nice to the residents. There's a human you're giving that food too.
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Lady4theLord
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I worked food prep before. My best advice to you is to not cut your hands off or leave body parts in food. WASH. YOUR. HANDS. ALL. THE. TIME. WEAR GLOVES. ALL. THE. TIME. Due to infection control, I would recommend not taking any leftovers home with you but that usually depends on the policies provided by the facilities and guidelines by the health departments. My hunny does something similar in his line of work at a nursing home. And be careful with how much you eat to "taste test" for "quality control purposes." You WILL gain weight in areas you didn't believe were possible. But congrats on the new job! I know that feeling.
Wash your hands all the time. Especially after you use the bathroom. Wear gloves all the time. No one wants your nasty skin cells on their food. lol.. Wear a hair net while you're working in the kitchen and serving food. In some places, it's mandatory to wear hair nets. I've found hair in my food before--gross..
I have never worked with food before, but just some work advice in general in case you dont know it already : p DONT watch the clock while you work, counting down the seconds until you go home. Keep your mind off the clock and keep it on working as best as you can. Not only will your work improve, but time will go faster and your mental state will benefit too : p
If you ever run into those people who dread work, drag their feet and complain all the time, its because they keep counting down the seconds until they can go home : p Dont become one of those people : p
If you ever run into those people who dread work, drag their feet and complain all the time, its because they keep counting down the seconds until they can go home : p Dont become one of those people : p
Not sure if your job will include clean up detail but watch the food trays as they return as false teeth have been known to come into the kitchen in the dish washing area in the nursing homes. Pay attention to the room number of the tray so you know where the teeth go....lol
Good to hear... there arent that many such homes here, but sometimes i imagine how it is to work in such a setting, w/ grandparents atmosphere all day-). For most oldies are in extended families... but, will u actually cook (and do u cook-- havent figured out from some of ur posts ive read?) I imagine some would be a bit choosy, but u can humor them perhaps, and tell abt healthy habits not known or common in their day! I am only remembering that Piano guys video in utube in a retirement home, and thot if u could play like them...I just got a job in food prep at a retirement home today. I start next month
I do cook but I'm not to experienced in it. My knife skill's for example need a lot of work.
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Ultimatum77
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Always taste before sending it out, and go easy on the salt, many retirement peeps have blood pressure issues
As for knife skills, practice cutting round veggies like onions/tomatoes or fruits like Apples...into uniform pieces....it's harder for me at least to make pieces uniform with round veggies but I'm getting better at it as well
As for knife skills, practice cutting round veggies like onions/tomatoes or fruits like Apples...into uniform pieces....it's harder for me at least to make pieces uniform with round veggies but I'm getting better at it as well
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Ultimatum77
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Oh yea, make sure your kitchen has one of these....Oxo veggie peelers....
OXO Good Grips 3-Piece Peeler Set, Green/Orange/Raspberry: Amazon.in: Home & Kitchen
Oxo can be expensive sometimes but they make good quality kitchen utensils... I use mine (the orange one shaped like a Y) all the time and it's faster than using a knife to peel the skin off of veggies/apples/pears/potatoes.....
they probably will have it, but it's also good to have one for yourself/own kitchen when you make food....really useful.
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wwjd_kilden
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Congrats
Tips:
As mentioned: Hygiene!
- Wash Your hands between tasks (Before starting in the morning, when switching from meat to vegtables or the other way round, after cleaning or touching stuff that isn't Food and so on.)
- or use gloves
BUT keep in mind: Wearing gloves is pointless if you take out the trash With the gloves and then og back to the Food With the same ones (Yeah, some People do that)
Even if you wear gloves, you should Wash Your hands when switching them if you've touched something that is a Health threat.
- Most Places demand you have some kind of cover on Your hair, hair in Your Food is nut yummy
PS: Autocorrect likes to add uppercase letters, dunno why
Tips:
As mentioned: Hygiene!
- Wash Your hands between tasks (Before starting in the morning, when switching from meat to vegtables or the other way round, after cleaning or touching stuff that isn't Food and so on.)
- or use gloves
BUT keep in mind: Wearing gloves is pointless if you take out the trash With the gloves and then og back to the Food With the same ones (Yeah, some People do that)
Even if you wear gloves, you should Wash Your hands when switching them if you've touched something that is a Health threat.
- Most Places demand you have some kind of cover on Your hair, hair in Your Food is nut yummy
PS: Autocorrect likes to add uppercase letters, dunno why
She gave me an option of using either a hairnet or a baseball cap. I think I'm going baseball cap, I'm not into hairnets lol I just have to keep clean shaved and short hair and I should be fineCongrats
Tips:
As mentioned: Hygiene!
- Wash Your hands between tasks (Before starting in the morning, when switching from meat to vegtables or the other way round, after cleaning or touching stuff that isn't Food and so on.)
- or use gloves
BUT keep in mind: Wearing gloves is pointless if you take out the trash With the gloves and then og back to the Food With the same ones (Yeah, some People do that)
Even if you wear gloves, you should Wash Your hands when switching them if you've touched something that is a Health threat.
- Most Places demand you have some kind of cover on Your hair, hair in Your Food is nut yummy
PS: Autocorrect likes to add uppercase letters, dunno why