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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
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, NSW

Epping Boys High School
Marsfied NSWl

Music 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
Riley Garfield