We all enjoyed a welcome glass of champagne or fresh orange
juice and a meal before the award ceremony itself. Prior to the meal people
were invited to look around the football ground if they chose. Having a
distinct lack of interest in football I said to Rebecca “Oh look, some grass
and some seats.”
Everyone had dressed up to look good for the event and I got
my dicky out and it looked well with my
new shirt and smart trousers and jacket. Rebecca looked very smart too in her
ensemble. We noticed that there were a lot of recipients in a similar age group
to us which was very gratifying. The food was nice, a rich tomato soup followed
by roast chicken breast and vegetables and a chocolate dessert.
After lunch, followed the award ceremony itself. Each Tesco store’s winners were announced and had to go up to the platform to receive their certificate and have a photo taken, all to great applause. Our table was the furthest table away from the platform so we got the longest applause. Yay!
After lunch, followed the award ceremony itself. Each Tesco store’s winners were announced and had to go up to the platform to receive their certificate and have a photo taken, all to great applause. Our table was the furthest table away from the platform so we got the longest applause. Yay!
Tesco offer the Level Two City and Guilds qualifications in
Replenishment, Service, Fish and Meat, Bakery and Delicatessen Counters and ‘The
Apprenticeship’ in Retail is made up of three parts:
Knowledge Workbooks and Competence and Observation exercises.
Key Skills in Maths and English provided by an external
provider
Technical Certificate in Retail Knowledge.
The knowledge workbooks were research and written projects
based on Teamwork, Counter and Customer Perception, Maintaining Food Safety and
Food Law, Stock procedures, Promotion procedures, Meat and Fish counters daily
practices, Processing Fish and Shellfish for sale. All of the afore-mentioned
had to be supported by extra documentation gathered by the ‘apprentice’. The
Delicatessen module was very similar in construction.
As part of our experience we each had to do a ‘presentation’, towards the end of the process, and Rebecca did an excellent in depth, twenty minute presentation about the history and processing of the Galbani company’s Dolcelatte cheese along with some lovely samples. We learnt that Dolce means "sweet" in Italian. Dolcelatte is a blue veined Italian soft cheese made from cow's milk that tastes sweet, sometimes called Gorgonzola Dolce.Rebecca is very knowledgeable about cheese and made the presentation very interesting and extremely tasty!
For my presentation I presented a book of meat and fish knowledge referencing my counters I work on, that I had photographed, written and complied myself and still have to educate myself and others on the cuts and high standards of presentation. From doing this I learnt a lot more about the fish and shellfish side of my work.
4 comments:
Well done Phil on your achievement.
Glad you had a good time in Sheffield, even if was at a football ground.
What next, a management degree. After all, you'll need another reason to wear your cheeky bow tie!
Thankyou Christopher. Management degree? No ta. Language degree? Maybe, Peut-etre, Vielleicht.
Hi Phil
Very well done. I am always impressed with the effort you put in, and the pride you take in your job. I hope your boss appreciates you!
You should pop down to my local Morrisons and sort their fish counter out - it's rubbish!
:-)
Peter
Many congratulations. You & Rebecca look very smart (I love your bowtie).
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