Food service associate resume examples for 2025
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How to write a food service associate resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A resume summary is your opening statement that highlights your strongest skills and top accomplishments. It is your chance to quickly let recruiters know who you are professionally - and why they should hire you for the food service associate role.
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in food service associate-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
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List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is an easy way to let recruiters know you have the skills to do the job. Just as importantly, it can help your resume not get filtered out by hiring software. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a food service associate resume:
- Patients
- Food Handling
- Excellent Interpersonal
- Cleanliness
- Math
- Kitchen Equipment
- Sanitation Standards
- Basic Math
- Safety Standards
- Customer Service
- Culinary
- Food Trays
- Patient Meals
- Safety Regulations
- Food Products
- Allergies
- Tray Line
- Clean Environment
- Cash Handling
- Meal Trays
- Hot Food
- Compassion
- Cash Control
- Patient Rooms
- Food Line
- Dishwashers
- Customer Orders
- Diet Restrictions
- Safety Procedures
- Quality Standards
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the food service associate.
How to write food service associate experience bullet points
Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
Here are examples from great food service associate resumes:
Work history example #1
Nutrition Aide
Atlantic Shores Retirement Community
- Accepted deliveries and put away deliveries in a neat, orderly fashion to where employees can easily access it when needed.
- Adhered to HACCP regulations and used FIFO.
- Operated the dishwasher, mopped and swept the floors, and cleaned up the cafeteria after each meal.
- Served breakfast, lunch and dinner Patient room delivery Prepped trayline, desserts, and drinks Dishwasher
- Cleaned and sanitized kitchen, operated dishwasher.
Work history example #2
Food Service Aide
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
- Prepared and served patient trays, general cleaning, used commercial equipment safely, filled out HACCP temperature sheets accurately.
- Organized, distributed, charted supplies to be delivered to16 patient floors daily, logged temperatures, maintained sanitation procedures.
- Collected trays and washed dishes.
- Cleaned all of the used dishes and wiped down all the machines, counters and tables.
- Washed dishes, pots and pans, trays, etc.
Work history example #3
Food Service Associate
Burger King
- Possessed a sound ability to understand basic sanitation requirements related to personal hygiene, food handling and equipment safety and sanitation.
- Operated POS (point of sale) terminal, cash register.
- Greeted customers entering establishments with a friendly, positive attitude.
- Verified each delivery order against ticket information.
- Maintained positive interactions with guests to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business.
Work history example #4
Food Service Associate
SAN Diego Community College District
- Created meals for patients, washed dishes and delivered meals to patients, and collaborated with nutritionists about patient meal plans.
- Worked salad, pizza area, deli area.
- Facilitated communication between the patient and RD, prepared food for various special diets.
- Prepared and processed daily and weekly payroll.
- Developed, implemented and trained staff on food safety in accordance with HACCP regulations.
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Add an education section to your resume
- The highest degree you have achieved.
- TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
- TField of study
- TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Associate's Degree in business
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
2004 - 2006
Highlight your food service associate certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your food service associate resume:
- Certified Food Manager (CFM)