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Technical Standards

Students must demonstrate and/or possess the following skills and abilities:

  • Working with others as a team and in close quarters
  • Meeting performance standards for assigned tasks and duties
  • Taking initiative
  • Working in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, hands-on environment
  • Solving problems
  • Communicating clearly and concisely
  • Following verbal and written instructions
  • Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
  • Telling time using an analog clock
  • Understanding written recipes, procedures, prep lists and other related notes and printing them prior to attending class
  • Managing personal workflow under time pressure and resolving questions and problems with an instructor
  • Self-managing medical and emotional conditions

Students must be able to meet the following physical demands:

  • Standing and/or walking throughout the entire class
  • Being around cleaning chemicals, heat, moisture, steam, humidity, open flames, cooking odors, refrigeration/freezer temperatures, loud noises and occasional wet floors
  • Using and/or operating knives, power equipment, cooking equipment and cleaning equipment
  • Lifting up to 50 pounds, using hands and fingers to handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms, climbing or balancing
  • Stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling
  • Tasting or smelling class preparations
  • Possessing adequate close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception

NOTE: A doctor’s note must be provided to allow a student to work with common food allergens, while pregnant or after suffering short-term trauma or disability. Also, no support animals are allowed in the kitchen area.

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