Food Service Career Assignment

Career Assignment

The purpose of this assignment was to explore careers in the food service and food industry by conducting an interview with the person that works in these areas. I selected Gloria Harwerth to interview. Mrs. Harwerth is the food service supervisor at Saint Luke Catholic School. Since this is a small private school that has a few students from PK3 grade through eighth grades, she also holds some basics Administrative Assistant functions in the school. Mrs. Harwerth education is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Even though, administrative knowledge is very applicable and importance in this type of job, it is her years of experience in food service that made Mrs. Harwerth qualified for this position. Her background and her

Some of them are when an employee calls off, as cited before Saint Luke Catholic Church is a small school and they only have three people that Mrs. Harwerth coordinates in the kitchen. When one of those employees is absent, she is the one that goes to the kitchen and help prepare all the foods, she mentioned that it is a big challenge for her because she has to stop all her administrative functions on that day in order to cover this employee. Furthermore, she mentioned that some vendors’ software can be very hard to sometimes use, which makes her lose a great amount of time in order to figure out how to insert the types of commodities that she needs. She mentioned that she had to change one of her best vendors because they were always modifying the software. Another obstacle that she faced was when the refrigerator stopped working and she lost the majority of the foods that were in the cold storage, so in order to fix it she installed a program that alerts her when the temperature is changing from what it is expected to