A professional who performs any combination of following duties to maintain kitchen work areas and restaurant equipment and utensils in clean and orderly condition. Respnsibilities include:

• Sweeps and mops floors.
• Washes worktables, walls, refrigerators, and meat blocks.
• Segregates and removes trash and garbage and places it in designated containers.
• Steam-cleans or hoses-out garbage cans.
• Sorts bottles, and breaks disposable ones in bottle-crushing machine.
• Washes pots, pans, and trays by hand.
• Scrapes food from dirty dishes and washes them by hand or places them in racks or on conveyor to dishwashing machine.
• Polishes silver, using burnishing-machine tumbler, chemical dip, buffing wheel, and hand cloth.
• Holds inverted glasses over revolving brushes to clean inside surfaces.
• Transfers supplies and equipment between storage and work areas by hand or by use of handtruck.
• Sets up banquet tables.
• Washes and peels vegetables, using knife or peeling machine.
• Loads or unloads trucks picking up or delivering supplies and food.