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Overview
Kitchen porters wash pots, pans, utensils, cutlery and dishes, clean kitchen surfaces, prepare areas before service and help receive, store and rotate supplies.
In job descriptions, look for dishwashing, kitchen cleaning, food hygiene, stock rotation, handling cleaning agents, glassware, equipment hazards, handover routines and teamwork in busy service periods.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Kitchen porters work around sinks, dishwashing machines, preparation areas, storage rooms and service peaks. The role keeps clean equipment moving back to cooks and service teams while supplies are received and stored correctly.
Skills and specializations
Useful capability includes operating dishwashing machines, cleaning kitchen equipment and surfaces, following food-hygiene routines, handling glassware carefully, using cleaning agents safely and keeping stock rotation orderly.
Salary context
Pay context is shaped by service volume, shift pattern, kitchen size, hygiene responsibility, supply handling, equipment care and whether the role also helps with basic food preparation.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward senior kitchen porter duties, kitchen assistant work, basic food preparation, stores support, hospitality team leadership or other entry routes into professional kitchens.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies name service hours, dishwashing equipment, cleaning chemicals, stock duties, food-preparation tasks, handover routines and expectations during busy lunch, dinner or event periods.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Restaurant activities
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is quick service restaurant crew member.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Dishwashers
35-9021.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
56.11Restaurant activities
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Kitchen helpers (9412)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f756fdab-7726-4c48-bfcc-94ff8810fc08 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 9412.2 |
| ISCO group | 9412 |
| Concept type | Occupation |