NVQ Level 2 Food and Drink Service

Essential skills in this qualification include: maintaining a safe, hygienic and secure working environment, contribution to effective teamwork, giving customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation; and maintaining food safety when storing, preparing and cooking food.

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Course Outline
These qualifications are ideal for you if your job or intended job is involved primarily within the food and drink services.

Learning and skills outcomes:

  • The aim of this qualification is to recognise good hospitality practice.
  • The flexibility of this qualification will enable candidates' skills to be adapted for a specific work based activity and/or employer requirements.
  • Help staff do their job better, improving quality of output and decreasing time spent on solving problems.

Suggested audience and pre-requirements

This qualification is aimed at people working within the hospitality industry.

You do not need any formal qualifications.

Benefits and progression

  • Offer employers up to date food and drink service techniques, targeted to their needs rather than qualification
  • Improves efficiency and productivity
  • Aligned to the need of business, it allows employers and learners to take control of the learning experience
  • work-place learning
  • Improves employee job satisfaction, motivation and retention, and create a quality assured highly skilled workforce.


Course detail

The detail course content is as follow:

Mandatory Units

  • Maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment
  • Contribute to effective teamwork
  • Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation
  • Maintain food safety when storing, holding and serving food


Optional Units (4 of the following units)

  • Prepare and clear areas for counter/takeaway service
  • Provide a counter/takeaway service
  • Prepare and clear areas for table service
  • Serve food at the table
  • Provide a silver service
  • Provide a buffet/carvery service
  • Prepare and clear the bar area
  • Serve alcoholic and soft drinks
  • Prepare and serve cocktails
  • Prepare and serve wines
  • Prepare cellars and kegs
  • Clean drinks dispense lines
  • Prepare and serve dispensed and instant hot drinks
  • Prepare and serve hot drinks using specialist equipment
  • Receive, store and issue drinks stock
  • Maintain and deal with payments


Duration and delivery

Duration
4-6 month delivery in the work place.
Candidates will be seen by a Trainer/Assessor weekly or fortnightly.

Delivery
Training can be delivered in the work place.
Following a group induction (3 hours) and initial assessment candidates will work with the Trainer/Assessor to put together a portfolio and will be observed and assessed in the work place.