Food Service Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Hospitality & Catering

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Food Service Skills List in Hospitality & Catering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Food Service role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Food Service job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 57% of Food Service job descriptions contained chef as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

chef
57%
catering
44%
hospitality
19%
cooking
19%
education
13%
monday to friday
13%
school
13%
senior chef de partie
13%
sous chef
13%
food
13%
customer service
13%
management
13%
pastry
13%
service skills
13%
chef de partie
13%
contract catering
13%
catering supervisor
7%
food & beverage manager
7%
food and beverage supervisor
7%
front of house
7%
front of house manager
7%
restaurant manager
7%
schools
7%
serving
7%
secondary school
7%
executive head chef
7%
cleaning
7%
nhs
7%
hygiene
7%
menu costing
7%
public sector
7%
safety
7%
menu development
7%
food service
7%
storage
7%
hotels
7%
high standards
7%
training
7%
restaurants
7%
catering manager
7%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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