Market Stall Operator apprentice

Afric Food Restaurant

Cambridge, CAMBRIDGE

Closes in 22 days (Saturday 28 February 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 22 January 2026

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Summary

As a Nigerian restaurant, we are looking for a candidate who will love to learn how to cook Nigerian dishes in our restaurant and also selling it to the public at our market stall in Cambridge with supervision.

Wage

£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Bonus to be discussed at interview 

Training course
Food and beverage team member (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Saturday 5 days on a rota

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 2 March 2026

Duration

1 year

Positions available

2

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

  • The candidate will prepare different types of Nigerian food
  • Clean the kitchen
  • Serve customers
  • Take payment at the restaurant and serve at our market stall with supervision
  • As you gain experience you will learn how to run a restaurant with supervision

Where you'll work

You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

  • Market Hill, Cambridge, CB1 0SS
  • 42 HILLS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1LA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL COLLEGE

Training course

Food and beverage team member (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Serve food and beverages to individual business standards.
  • Identify opportunities and apply techniques to increase sales and improve customer experience.
  • Tailors communication techniques to meet customer needs and build rapport.
  • Maintain a safe, hygienic, and secure working environment.
  • Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
  • Follow food safety and allergen legislation and procedures applicable to own role.
  • Use technology and equipment in line with business policy to meet customer needs.
  • Handle transactions and payments securely.
  • Work as part of a team to ensure that the products and services are delivered on time and in line with business needs
  • Deal with or escalate issues that impact service and customer experience, and implement any instructions given by supervisor.
  • Use professional methods of communication that are tailored to different situations, and individual and team needs.
  • Manages own time and workload, prioritising tasks.
  • Maintain and rotate stock according to life cycle and business processes.
  • Ensure equipment and technology faults and maintenance issues are reported promptly.
  • Check customers are satisfied with products and services through questioning and act on feedback in line with business procedures.
  • Keep up to date with changes to products and processes.
  • Uses feedback to improve own performance.
  • Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
  • Follows and supports equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
  • Participate in team briefings, implementing instructions, and offering input or feedback where relevant.
  • Serve food and beverages to individual business standards.
  • Identify opportunities and apply techniques to increase sales and improve customer experience.
  • Tailors communication techniques to meet customer needs and build rapport.
  • Maintain a safe, hygienic, and secure working environment.
  • Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
  • Follow food safety and allergen legislation and procedures applicable to own role.
  • Use technology and equipment in line with business policy to meet customer needs.
  • Handle transactions and payments securely.
  • Work as part of a team to ensure that the products and services are delivered on time and in line with business needs
  • Deal with or escalate issues that impact service and customer experience, and implement any instructions given by supervisor.
  • Use professional methods of communication that are tailored to different situations, and individual and team needs.
  • Manages own time and workload, prioritising tasks.
  • Maintain and rotate stock according to life cycle and business processes.
  • Ensure equipment and technology faults and maintenance issues are reported promptly.
  • Check customers are satisfied with products and services through questioning and act on feedback in line with business procedures.
  • Keep up to date with changes to products and processes.
  • Uses feedback to improve own performance.
  • Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
  • Follows and supports equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
  • Participate in team briefings, implementing instructions, and offering input or feedback where relevant.

Training schedule

You will achieve a Food and Beverage Level 2 qualification via a work mentor and Cambridge Regional College assessor

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 3/D and above)
  • Maths (grade 3/D and above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

Please be aware you will be frequently be working outdoors.

About this employer

Africfood is a street food business that started in 2016 at the Cambridge Market, the journey has been exciting and great fun, we were able to build a customer base from the students , tourist and the locals. The business have expanded. in 2024 we opened a restaurant on Hills Road and we are number 1 quick bite on trip advisor.

After this apprenticeship

  • To achieve your level 2 in Food and Beverage Team Member

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000010215.

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Closes in 22 days (Saturday 28 February 2026 at 11:59pm)