SITHFAB016

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to provide accurate information and advice on different menu options. It requires the ability to evaluate organisational menu items, provide advice to customers on their menu selection, contribute to menu design, and continuously extend personal product knowledge of food and cuisines.

The unit applies to hospitality organisations that serve food, including hotels, restaurants, cafes, wineries, fine food outlets and clubs.

It applies to food and beverage attendants who operate with some level of independence and under limited supervision to provide advice to others about menu selection.

Unit mapping information

SITHFAB309 Provide advice on food

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit sector or competency field

Hospitality—Food and Beverage

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Not applicable

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in an operational restaurant or food and beverage outlet. This can be:

• an industry workplace
• a simulated industry environment

Assessment must ensure access to:

• stock:

  • ingredients to prepare meals from all the major food types and for entrees, main courses, accompaniments, desserts and cheeses

• Dietary Guidelines for Australians
• organisational specifications:

  • current food and cuisine product information in:

    • descriptive menus

    • recipes

    • media reviews

    • information databases

    • promotional information

  • food menus

• kitchen staff with whom the individual can interact
• industry-realistic ratio of service staff to customers; these can be:

  • customers in an industry workplace during the assessment process; or

  • individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment operated within a training organisation

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors; and:

• have worked in industry for at least three years where they have applied the skills and knowledge of this unit of competency