Pearson EDI · RQF Level 2
Pearson EDI Level 2 Diploma in Professional Food and Beverage Service (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits44
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by Pearson EDI · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson EDI registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Applying workplace skillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain personal presentation
- Work effectively with customers and colleagues
- Prepare for a job application
- Produce a plan to develop skills
Food and beverage service skillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Set up, prepare, maintain and clear for bar service
- Set up, serve, maintain and clear for service of beverages at table
- Set up, serve, maintain and clear for service of food at table
- Understand the purpose of different food and beverage establishments
Food safety in cateringReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how individuals can take personal responsibility for food safety
- Understand the importance of keeping him/herself clean and hygienic
- Understand the importance of keeping the work areas clean and hygienic
- Understand the importance of keeping food safe
Handling payments and maintaining the payment pointReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with payments
- Open, maintain and close a payment point
- Understand the security procedures at the payment point
Health and safety in catering and hospitalityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of health and safety in the catering and hospitality industry
- Identify hazards in the catering and hospitality workplace
- Understand how to control hazards in the workplace
- Understand how to maintain a healthy and safe workplace
Investigate the catering and hospitality industryReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hospitality and catering industry
- Understand the national and international employment opportunities available in the hospitality industry
Legislation in food and beverage serviceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how legislation impacts on the service of food and beverages
Menu knowledge and designReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know menu styles
- Know service items
- Understand dietary requirements
- Understand menus and dish composition
Principles of Customer Service in Hospitality Leisure Travel and TourismReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance to the organisation in providing excellent customer service in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries
- Understand the role of the individual in delivering customer service in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries
- Understand the importance of customers’ needs and expectations in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industries
Principles of beverage product knowledgeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the characteristics of non-alcoholic beverages
- Know types of beers, ciders and perrys and how they are served
- Understand the characteristics and mixing of cocktails
- Understand the characteristics of spirits and liqueurs
- Understand the characteristics of wine and how they relate to food
Service of hot beveragesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify, check and clean equipment
- Prepare and serve coffees
- Prepare and serve hot chocolate
- Prepare and serve teas
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson EDI Level 2 Diploma in Professional Food and Beverage Service (QCF)
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Applying workplace skills
- Food and beverage service skills
- Food safety in catering
- Handling payments and maintaining the payment point
- Health and safety in catering and hospitality
- Investigate the catering and hospitality industry
and 5 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.