Bartender

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

To prepare and serve beverages and/or food to the guests in a friendly, courteous and timely manner, resulting in guest satisfaction. Acts as a cashier for the bar area.

Example of Duties

Essential Functions

1. Maintains proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis. This includes requisitioning and stocking of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers, condiments and produce based on projections from the Food and Beverage department as per guest occupancy.

2. Responsible for maintaining stock, cutting, and storing of all fresh fruit and vegetable garnishes, juices and other perishables daily to insure product quality.

3. Greets guests in a courteous and friendly manner, addresses the guest by name whenever possible. Mixes, garnishes and presents drinks with standard ingredient recipes and practicing prudent portion control.

4. Inputs orders into a register at the point of sale and creates a check for each guest. Maintains an accurate record of all beverage items served.

5. Processes cash, credit cards and/or voucher transactions, makes change as needed, verifies validity of charges, records charges, and insures vouchers are properly executed, in order to balance all monies.

6. Stores and secures all beverage, food and other equipment, deposits cash and vouchers, drops and secures bank.

Supportive Functions

In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions.

· Performs general cleaning tasks using standard hotel cleaning products as assigned by your supervisor to adhere to health standards.

· Perform other duties and responsibilities as requested (i.e., special guest requests, cross-training)

· Must adhere to all State, Federal and Corporate liquor regulations pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages to minors and intoxicated guests to insure all laws are being followed.

· Other duties as assigned, including: assisting security with disorderly guests, and reporting any suspicious persons or activity immediately.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities to be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities.

· Must have basic knowledge of food and beverage preparations and service of various alcoholic beverages.

· Basic English language writing skills necessary for completion of requisitions, balance sheets and vouchers.

· Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items.

· Sufficient manual dexterity in hands in order to use a knife to make garnish, pick up glassware and bottles, scoop ice, mix drinks, and reach overhead to retrieve stock.

· Ability to operate a keyboard to input Point of Sale procedures to pre-check, input order and close out the check.

· Ability to work standing and work in confined spaces for long periods of time.

Qualifications

Experience

Bartending experience required.

Education

Any combination of education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school or any other combination of education, training or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. High school diploma preferred.