Riley Garfield
Denistone,NSW
Summary
- Experienced Butcher's Assistant at Tender Gourmet Butchery with 3 years expertise in meat preparation, packaging, and exceptional customer service.
- Practical experience in meat preparation, cutting, and packaging.
- Adept at ensuring quality control, maintaining hygiene standards, and operating meat processing equipment.
- Known for strong teamwork, adaptability, and delivering consistent results.
- Reliable and efficient, ready to contribute effectively to any butchery team.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Butchers Assistant
Tender Gourmet Butchery
Macquarie Park NSW
10.2021 - 06.2024
- Followed strict food safety protocol as outlined by NSW food handling guidelines.
- Greeted and interacted with diverse customer base, serving needs on individual basis.
- Cut, trimmed and ground meats such as beef, pork, and poultry to prepare for packaging and sale.
- Prepared for special holidays and events by adjusting inventories and anticipating demand.
- Prepared meats for different cooking methods, maintaining cultural relevancy and catering to customers.
- Confirmed and coordinated orders with suppliers and arranged delivery details.
- Learned different selections and types of poultry, pork, beef and fish from head butcher.
- Assisted head butcher by inspecting deliveries to verify freshness of meats.
- Used cash registers to total sales and collect money from customers.
- Prepared meat into forms ready for cooking by boning, tying, grinding, cutting and trimming meats.
- Used skewers, bone knives and twine to lace, tie, and shape roasts.
- Weighed, labeled and priced variety of cuts of meat for on-demand selection.
- Adhere to safety and cleanliness standards and maintained equipment.
- Handled customer complaints quickly and professionally to restore customer confidence and prevent loss of business.
Education
Marsden High School
Meadowbank, NSWEpping Boys High School
Marsfied NSWlMusic Production
Ultimo TAFE
01-2024
Skills
- Confident knife handling/ trimming skills
- Meat weighing and labeling
- Weighing and labeling
- Workplace Safety
- Confident with using cashier register and EFTPOS machines
- Sausage making
- Grinding and mincing
- Food safety knowledge
- Meat Preparation/ packaging
- Exceptional Customer Service skills
- Safe Food Handling
- Sanitation Procedures
- Food/ product presentation
- Strong team member
- Weighing, measuring & estimating, portion sizes
- Attention to Detail
- Reliability
- Excellent Communication
- Team Collaboration
- Proper Meat Storage
- Food Preparation
- Product Knowledge
Timeline
Butchers Assistant
Tender Gourmet Butchery
10.2021 - 06.2024
Marsden High School
Epping Boys High School
Music Production
Ultimo TAFE