Skills Upon Graduation
Demonstrated Employability Assets
Each FareStart graduate has completed our intensive 16 week training program. Each individual is prescreened for employability assets including:
- Current food handlers card
- Current track record of reliability and stability
- Current references and support network
- Timely, organized and efficient
- Good communications and team focus
- Working “clean, neat and complete”
- Working with the sense of urgency
- Maintaining high customer service standards
- Asking questions and checking for understanding
Solid, Comprehensive Training
FareStart graduates, both back and front-of-house, are qualified at and above entry-level for the food service industry. Each graduate has been extensively trained for food handling, safety and sanitation and are comfortable in multiple food service situations.
FareStart back-of-house students have worked and trained alongside professional chefs producing up to 2500 nutritious, from-scratch bulk meals each day in the FareStart kitchen. They have also worked the line, producing thousands of meals to order for the FareStart Restaurant, FareStart Cafes, FareStart Catering and up to 250 three course gourmet meals each week at FareStart's Guest Chef Night event.
Back-of-the-House Training Includes:
- Proper food storage
- First aid
- Safe food handling
- Team work
- Knife skills – 60 hrs
- Kitchen safety
- Quantity cooking
- Serving skills
- Ingredient ID
- Kitchen vocabulary
- Prep work
- Kitchen math
- Dessert work
- Inventory procedures
- Specialty cuisine
- Soups, Sauces, Salads
- Catering
- Quality Control
- Consistency
- Leadership
- Line cooking
- Menu building
To consider a FareStart graduate for current or future job openings, please contact one of our Employment Specialists at hireagrad@farestart.org or 206.267.6226.