Food and Beverage

In any business, the relationship between manpower and productivity is directly proportional. Food and Beverage as a sector is not an exception. 

If you are into an F&B business, lack of manpower or lack of skills in the existing manpower should not be a limiting factor for your performance and growth. To ensure that, we are always there to help you with manpower supply, so that you lead the competitive market with confidence! 

The most important factor of the F&B industry is- the items here are mostly delicate and perishable. So, inappropriate handling and faulty storage may lead to financial loss and put your company’s reputation at stake. Therefore, it is utterly important that your staff is trained adequately. 

How Can We Help You?

At Razi Solutions, we boast a pool of human resources with different levels of skills. Skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled- you can choose the segment of labour you need. But before that, let’s have a look at which segment of the F&B sector requires what type of manpower. 

Warehouse management

Warehouse is the most critical place in your business where you store all the perishable goods. So, if you are not careful about how you operate and manage the warehouse, there is a high chance that a lot of your items will get spoiled, and you have to get rid of them. Result? Huge loss. 

Type of labour required: Skilled and unskilled 

Why?

• People handling the warehouse responsibilities must know about the “best before” limitations. These will be similar to ‘deadlines’ for perishable items. So, they need to know when to move which product before they reach those deadlines.
• Some food items require storage in a temperature-controlled environment. Some dry food items can remain good at normal temperatures, while some would require refrigeration. This can only be tackled by a skilled set of workers.
• You need to keep your stock balanced, right? Excess inventory involves a risk of spoilage, while too little stock might lead to losing business opportunities. Only skilled labour can manage the stock balance. 

Purchasing items and planning menus

As a brand operating in the F&B industry, you need to acquire raw food items from reliable and trusted sources so that quality is never compromised. As for menu planning, keeping consumer demands and preferences in consideration is important.

Type of labour required: Skilled

Why?

• The labour should know the appropriate order size so that overbuying or underbuying does not become an issue and all guests are served properly.
• The menu should meet customer requirements. For example, if you are offering food service for a Marwari or Jain wedding, you should strictly avoid non-vegetarian items. Again, if it is a Bengali wedding, there is likely to be more than one type of fish and meat. Only a skilled workforce can design an appropriate menu.
• The availability of raw materials and menu design go hand in hand. This would also determine the pricing policies.

Daily operations 

From cleaning tasks to machine maintenance- daily operations include all. This segment is the supportive part of the F&B service. You might be running a restaurant or you might be a catering service provider, but you need to maintain daily operations properly.

Type of labour required: semi-skilled or unskilled

Why?

For this segment, you can do semi-skilled and/or unskilled labour because the chores one needs to perform here do not require any specific or special training. Their jobs would include:

• Cleaning and sanitation of the kitchen and the workplace
• Cleaning glassware and other cutlery
• Cleaning tables before and after the food service
• Maintaining and cleaning machinery and electronic items like microwave, mixer-grinder and other cooking utensils.
• Sanitisation and sterilisation of equipment, work surface, sink, etc
• Keeping the store clean and free of any pests like cockroach or mice so that hygiene is maintained and your brand’s reputation is unharmed

Packaging 

Whether you deliver raw food items or cooked (or processed) items, the packaging is very important. Wrong packaging might cause spillage and spoilage of food. Imagine the doughnuts you packed for your order reaching the consumer without the chocolate topping as it got completely stuck to the package cover. Terrible!

Type of labour required: Skilled and semi-skilled

Why?

For some activities under packaging, you would need skilled manpower while semi-skilled manpower will be enough for other functions. These would include:

Handling packaging process as a packaging specialist	Skilled
Material handling	Skilled
Boxing/unboxing	Semi-skilled
Shrink wrapping	Semi-skilled
Palletizing/de-palletizing	Skilled
Labelling	Semi-skilled

Transportation 

It is always best if you have your own transport and logistics system instead of depending on third parties. Timely and proper transportation keeps the supply chain running. However, even if you do, you would require drivers, forklift operators, etc. 

Type of labour required: skilled 

Why?

• It is utterly important that foods reach the customers within a specific timeframe, or else the food may spoil, and the reputation will be at stake.
• Drivers need to know the route to the destination or at least be able to navigate according to maps. Thus, skill in intra and inter city driving is important.

To put an end to all your worries, Razi Solutions has developed a pool of workforce with varied skills for you to choose from. get in touch with us to keep your F&B business running smoothly and ahead of other competitors.