Amusement & Recreation Attendant – Food Concessions

Job description

RFI Response (Portions extracted):
Nachos Cheese: Nacho Chips, Cheese, Jalapenos ... The cheese sauce we purchase in Cans. The can are opened with a canopener and scooped into the top of a standard double boiler. When serving Nachos would stand at the front counter, communicating with the customer. After taking the order, would scoop Chips into the Nacho Tray, scoop out hot cheese sauce, use tongs to sprinkle Sliced Jalapenos on top, provide napkins and provide to the patron after payment.
Mac & Cheese: This product comes to us pre-portioned, pre-cooked, frozen in plastic bags that are placed into a pot of boiling water, to bring them to the proper temperature for serving. The bag of Mac & Cheese would be removed from the water using food service tongs, opened with food grade scissors, and poured into a serving tray (aka boat) to be handed to the customer.
French Fries: The worker would pour prepackaged frozen fries into a fryer when the timer goes off the basket raises itself automatically to drip the hot grease back into the fryer, then the worker would pick up the basket with gloved hand, dump onto a tray, sprinkle with salt, and place into the appropriate container (medium, large or family sized). Continual cleaning of the work area during the shift and at the end of the day. Puttin supplies into refrigeration – or discarding. Are part of the duties.
Cotton Candy: is a combination of sugar and flossine, that adds color and flavoring to the finished product. The floss machine is turned on, allowed to heat up, the sugar and flossine is mixed in appropriate amounts, and when the machine hits the correct temperature, the worker slowly pours from a small cup or measuring scoop, the mix into the center /heating element. This produces whisps of cotton candy that forms around the center of the machine. The worker learns how to spin the cotton candy cone within the large bowl, to capture and build what most persons would recognize as cotton candy. This is then slipped into a cotton candy bag and sealed.

Original F.a.2:
Perform variety of attending duties at traveling carnival. Set up, tear-down, operate amusement food concessions.
The OFLC ETA requested detail on specific portions of these job duties.
Food Concessions set up & tear down: Mobile food concessions are typically mounted in a trailer. A supervisor would position the trailer(s) at a specific location on the grounds, unhitch the power unit from the trailer. The awnings covering the windows during transit would be raised & secured. Items such as trash cans, screens, tables that may be positioned outside of the trailer but carried inside of the trailer during transit would be manually moved from inside the trailer to outside. Trailer would be cleaned, sanitized & stocked with supplies for the event. Any counters, guidance railings, signage, decorations would be positioned outside of the trailer. Condiment dispensers, napkin dispensers & trash containers would be set up outside of the trailer. Typically the fair or event maintains the tables & chairs for patrons, but is some instances the worker may set up a limited number of chairs & tables for patron use. Teardown would simply be these duties being handled in the reverse order & items being stored & secured for transit to the next location.
To clarify the portion of the job duties that includes operate mobile food concessions stand: On a carnival midway, when there is a mobile food concessions, a stand is limited to selling only one or two specific items, such as cotton candy, popcorn, turkey legs, roasted corn, or other specialty foods. The food is prepared in a production line, where an individual may only perform one task, such as measuring corn & oil into a popper. The next individual would salt & bag. The next individual would choose correct bag as per customer order & hand to teller. The next individual would have taken order, taken money, made change & then hands order to client.

Special Requirements

Post-employment random drug testing and background checks may be required, at no cost to the worker. The job requires the applicant to be qualified, ready, willing, able, and available to perform during the entire employment at the designated worksite; to enter into and comply with employment contract; to follow workplace rules.