Internship in Bratislava, Slovakia  

- Roman Hutira - Service, Hospitality & Tourism Management

Internship in Slovakia

As a student of UCN after finishing of second semester, the natural continuing of my studies was an Internship in achosen company, I decided for a venture, providing hospitality and restaurant services in capital city of Slovakia, in Bratislava.

In my three months staying in restaurant, doing my internship, I had attractive opportunity to see a daily life of the venture, where I had worked in various positions.

I had the chance to see, work and observe the place in various working positions..

The restaurant

Restaurant Pizzeria Budkova is based in Slovakia is a medium-size restaurant serving healthy, contemporary style food. The restaurant is located at Budkova Street in Bratislava, Slovakia, close to a dense population of the target market.

Pizzeria Budkova is offering a menu of food and beverages with a distinctive image. There is three ways to purchase these products; table service at the restaurant, take-out from the restaurant, and delivery to home or office.

The Pizzeria Budkova menu is moderate sized, and moderate-low priced offering a collection of ethnic and Slovak items with a common theme -- healthy (low-fat, low cholesterol, natural ingredients), flavorful, and familiar.

A great experience

Been on the Internship was a great experience, and has helped me confirm that I want to go into Hotel or restaurant business. It was an excellent experience and helped open me up for new possibilities about my career.

The three months taught me new things. I was able to work at various working positions at the restaurant, in the kitchen and floor of the venture, I had chance to understand a bit about management, dealing with customers, and employees.

I was also assigned to floor management. This position allowed me to work with a team of managers in a leadership position where I dealt with all types of different people. I worked in the office of the restaurant, that gave me opportunity to see daily paper work and contacts with suppliers.

I learned so much...

I will recommend this experience to anyone. The internship was not only a good stepping stone for a future career in event-planning/general business operations, but an exemplary example of how to be successful in the work environment.

Overall I evaluate my staying at the internship as a positive experience, interesting experience, where I learned to deal with responsibilities, where I learned to take the action, they have thought me to be flexible and task orientated person, I became more customer service orientated person.

Staying at the internship gave me natural outlook of authenticity of work in real environment, I learned how to seek for the challenge, how to work under supervision, and at last I understood that the key factors for being successful at hospitality industry is to naturally put together knowledge and intelligence.