Food Service Worker

Credential: Graduate

Length: 2 Semesters

Department: Health Services
Campus: Mississauga
Semester: January, March, May, July, September, November
Duration: 2 Semesters

If you want to enter into the most important profession of a food handler, the food service worker course is the quickest program to get you started.

The food service worker diploma is designed to give students concurrent theoretical and practical training on the roles and responsibilities of food handlers. The food industry is the major need of every sector whether it’s health, communities, or entertainment. BITTS International Career College has structured to give a set of most lucrative skills and a handful of experience to the diploma holders of the food service worker. Considering the major need of this profession, the students will be oriented towards the roles and responsibilities of food handlers through our wide array of faculty.

  • Institutional food service/role of the food service worker

    BITTS International Career College’s food service worker program allows you to understand your core responsibilities, the art of interaction with customers & team, staff collaboration, and practices related to personal development. This module also teaches you regulatory compliance, menu planning, nutrition, food production, food safety, food sanitation, inventory management, and resource management to be prepared to work in different types of food settings.

  • Communication skills for handling customers in fast-paced environment

    Important communication skills for food service worker certificate holders to ensure customer satisfaction, team interaction & collaboration, deal with conflicts and difficult situations, operational efficiency, positive workplace environment, and fulfill stock needs of staff are taught in this module. Students will also learn high-quality written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills that are mandatory in the workplace.

  • Sanitation And Safety

    Our food service worker diploma specifically focuses on teaching the best food safety and sanitation practices throughout the duration. The knowledge and skills you gain help prevent food-borne illnesses, maintain a clean and safe workplace, reduce food wastage, comply with relevant regulations, ensure employees’ and customers’ health and safety, prevention of food cross-contamination to build trust required for career and business growth.

  • Quantity Food Preparation

    The food service worker certificate program treats quantity food preparation like an important art. Value to this aspect is important to ensure time management, customer satisfaction, food quality, and cost efficiency while serving food to a large group of people. We can help you learn all the skills you need to do it.

  • Nutrition and health

    This module aims to educate professionals about the value of promoting healthy eating habits, meeting dietary requirements, prevention and management of health issues, compliance with regulatory standards, providing balanced, nutritious meals & health education. The food service work program focuses on enhancing your job skills and advancing your career to make you capable of accomplishing all these goals.

  • Medical Emergencies

    The medical emergencies module in our food service worker certification course will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to recognize allergic reactions, prevent choking hazards, ensure food safety, food premises sanitation, and proper food storage, manage burns or injuries to customers & staff, create a safe workplace for staff and manage liabilities effectively.

  • Job Search And Career Development

    With this course, you improve your chances of gaining employment as a food service worker, food service helper, dietary aide and food preparer, catering in cafeterias, and food delivery professional in Canada. You will have a chance to build a rewarding career in this domain by working in various industries in Canada.

  • CPR/First Aid

    Customer safety, legal compliance, effective management of workplace injuries, and the quality of preparedness are mandatory for food industry professionals in Canada. Our food service worker program will help you learn the art of identifying allergic reactions, emergency protocols, basic first aid, wound care, choking response, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation practices (Adults, Children, and Babies).

  • Food Handler Certification Certificate

    You will get your BITTS International Career Food Handler certification certificate once you complete the food service worker certificate program, clear your exam, and demonstrate all skills learned successfully during the course duration.

  • Work placement (140 Hours in food services department of a long term care facility, hospital, school or other similar institution)

    With a food service worker diploma, you get a chance to gain hands-on practice through placements in the food service departments of institutes like long-term care facilities, hospitals, schools, and canteens under the supervision of an experienced professional. The quality of exposure you will gain will help you enhance your knowledge, skills, and career and grow your food brand/business in Canada.

The food service worker is presently one of the broadly noticed and desired careers nowadays. It is substantial too because whether it is in the business sector, educational or related to health you will absolutely find a place for food handler workers everywhere. That is why there is no doubt to successfully get a bright start with a credible and adept industry of food serving. With food service worker program, you have options:

  • One of the fastest growing fields, usually the ROI is within the same year.

  • Course provides technical and transferable skills necessary for success within the industry.

  • Trained by industry experienced instructors in a conducive environment which meets international standards.

  • Leads to a job starting with an average of $20-$25 per hour.

  • Gain employment as a food service worker, dietary aide, food-line worker, nutrition aide

  • Graduates will be certified to work in entry-level positions in commercial kitchens, long-term care homes, retirement homes and day cares, as well as quick service outlets.

  • On average, 80% of graduates from the last three years (2017 to 2019) found employment within six months of graduation.

  • Ontario High School Diploma or equivalent

  • Age must be 18 years or above

  • If you are an international student: English proficiency (IELTS/CELPIP/Other English tests or OSSD equivalent)

  • Interest in food preparation and handling

The food service worker is in-demand profession in Canada nowadays as every food industry needs skilled people. The benefit of successfully graduating diploma in this subject is that food service workers can find out many job opportunities across the region as well as the border. Students can work either a part-time or full-time job in any food industry as food service workers such as servers, bartenders, staff members, cooks, bakers, etc. We nurture their aspirations with great experience and knowledge along with an understanding of food safety and its handling. Our staff delivers you with a practical and theoretical framework where you can develop yourself adequately to get into the food service field. Upon successful completion of the program students can gain employment as:

  • Food Service Workers

  • Food Service Helpers

  • Dietary Aides and food preparers

  • Catering in cafeterias

  • Delivery of food in different areas.

Program Availability

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