SITHFAB025

Prepare and serve espresso coffee

Note: SITHFAB025 supersedes SITHFAB005

This unit is an accredited training resource consistent with the Nationally Recognised Training requirements for Vocational Education and Training (VET) and is ideal for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) in Australia. It consists of Learning Resource Material (instructional theory), an Assessment Workbook, and information about assessment mapping to the Performance Criteria, Knowledge Evidence, and Performance Evidence requirements of this accredited unit.

Our SITHFAB025 training product is available for purchase as a hardcopy (printed) book in both Learner Guide and Trainer/Assessor Guide variants. This unit is available for enrolment and online training/assessment via Catapult LMS (Learning Management System). NOTE: If you are a training provider, please do your own validation, in accordance with your Training and Assessment Strategy (TAS).

This SITHFAB025 unit is an accredited training resource consistent with the Nationally Recognised Training requirements for Vocational Education and Training (VET) and is ideal for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) in Australia.

The unit content consists of:

  • Learning Resource Material (instructional theory)
  • Assessment Workbook
  • Assessment Mapping Guide for the Performance Criteria, Knowledge Evidence, and Performance Evidence requirements of this accredited unit


Our SITHFAB025 training product is available for purchase as a hardcopy (printed) book in both Learner Guide and Trainer/Assessor Guide variants.

This unit is also available for enrolment and online training/assessment via Catapult LMS (Learning Management System). Contact us to learn more.

NOTE: If you are a training provider, please do your own validation, per your Training and Assessment Strategy (TAS).

SITHFAB025 information from training.gov.au.

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to extract and serve espresso coffee beverages using commercial espresso machines and grinders. It requires the ability to advise customers on coffee beverages, select and grind coffee beans, prepare and assess espresso coffee beverages and to use, maintain and clean espresso machines and grinders. Complex repairs of equipment would be referred to specialist service technicians.

Preparation of coffee beverages using other methods is covered in SITHFAB024 Prepare and serve non-alcoholic beverages.

This unit applies to any hospitality organisation that serves espresso coffee beverages, including cafes, restaurants, bars, clubs, function and event venues.

It applies to espresso machine operators who operate with some level of independence and under limited supervision.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.

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

Assessment conditions

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

  • an industry workplace; or
  • a simulated industry environment set up for the purposes of assessment.

Assessment must ensure access to:

  • fixtures and large and small equipment:
    • workstation with industry current commercial grade espresso machine and coffee grinders
    • bins or knock boxes for used coffee grounds
    • storage bins
    • blind or blank filter basket
    • cleaning brushes
    • cleaning cloths
    • flat edge implement for levelling off dosed filter basket
    • measuring equipment
    • milk foaming jugs
    • napkins
    • powder shakers
    • service trays
    • spoons and stirrers
    • straws
    • service-ware for different types of coffee beverages:
      • espresso and standard cups
      • saucers
      • mugs
      • glasses
      • take-away coffee cups and lids
      • take-away cardboard trays
    • tamp mats
    • tampers
  • stock:
    • commercial range of coffee beans, ground coffee and other ingredients and accompaniments
  • organisational specifications:
    • equipment manufacturer instructions
    • cleaning and maintenance procedures for espresso coffee machines and grinders
    • commercial beverage menus
    • organisational procedures and industry standards for presenting espresso coffee beverages
    • price lists
    • standard recipes for coffee beverages currently used by the hospitality industry
    • SDS for cleaning chemicals or plain English workplace documents or diagrams that interpret the content of SDS
  • industry-realistic ratio of 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.

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