{"id":3355,"date":"2023-03-10T05:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/2023\/03\/10\/waitress-at-a-cafe\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:56:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:26:22","slug":"waitress-at-a-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=3355","title":{"rendered":"Waitress at a cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been curious about learning what work goes into the backend of a restaurant and my curiosity has continued to grow. Finally, when I got an opportunity to explore I decided to work as a waitress at Big Scoop Cafe and learn new recipes and techniques for example, making bubble tea or designing a frappe as well as serving them to customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LO 1 &#8211; Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through this opportunity, I developed my cooking skills and overcame my fears such as being around an open stove and working at a fast pace in order to serve the customers timely. I also developed my interpersonal skills which helped me to communicate with my customers namely, checking their requirements, getting feedback or receiving payments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LO 2 &#8211; Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few challenges that I faced consisted of time management and responsibility for example, managing the multiple food cooking, greeting the customers, and designing the drinks. With the help of the manager I got the hang of working at a decent pace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LO 5 &#8211; Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the cafe already had their own designs to convey on their food, I got an opportunity to bring out my art. This required me to propose my idea and get it accepted by the manager. Additionally, I was able to learn their accounting methods and deliver my ideas to the customers. Moreover, I developed active listening skills, attentiveness, positive attitude, and multi-tasking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4589\" src=\"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-20-at-16.15.25-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4590\" src=\"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-20-at-16.15.57-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4591\" src=\"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-20-at-16.16.29-223x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been curious about learning what work goes into the backend of a restaurant and my curiosity has continued to grow. Finally, when I got an opportunity to explore I decided to work as a waitress at Big Scoop Cafe and learn new recipes and techniques for example, making bubble tea or designing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241092349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-samraggi-pyarial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/241092349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2024.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}