Bartender

Bartender

Reports to: GM

Prepares and serves cocktails, serves food items in the bar area, and handles currency transactions by performing the following duties.

• Greets and serves customers in a professional and timely manner.
• Prepares alcoholic, non-alcoholic and other beverages for customers and servers in accordance with standard recipes.
• Mix all drinks based on the serving sizes as outlined in the company manual to keep drink costs at a minimum.
• Prepares all condiments to garnish drink orders.
• Takes food orders and enters them into computer.
• Applies knowledge of the full menu, beverages and other restaurant information such as restaurant hours and types of payment.
• Maintains a clean bar at all times wiping bar regularly, disposing of debris and bottles and washing glasses behind the bar as needed.
• Checks and maintains stock of glassware, beverages and bar supplies and communicates shortages to appropriate person.
• Assists with answering the telephone and taking messages to give to the proper personnel when time allows.
• Maintain an accurate cash drawer throughout the shift and be able to account for any and all discrepancies in the final drawer tally.
• Processes charge transaction through charge transmittal machine and prints, reviews and submits a daily charge report to the Manager.
• Completes all assigned opening and closing duties to prepare bar for efficient operation.
• Communicates health and/or safety concerns/violations immediately to management.
• Develop an efficient work pace that keeps the customers at the bar and in the dining room satisfied at all times.
• Comply with nutrition and sanitation guidelines.

Qualifications:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Math Ability:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather) and work near moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.

Compensation: $11.79 per hour

Born into a family with 15 children, Jose Ramirez was "lucky number 7." He started his pursuit of this dream as a 13-year-old bagboy at a grocery store in what is known as The Highlands area of Denver. He later worked as a server at Las Palmas, working 60-70 hours per week, eventually becoming the server manager. He would work so much that he would oftentimes sleep in his car while providing for his wife, Martha, and his two sons, Luis and Daniel. Jose saved up enough money to open up the first Los Dos Potrillos location in Centennial in 2002. Jose opened this first location of Los Dos with just $5.18 left in his bank account. Having sunk everything he had into his restaurant, Jose would tell these first customers of Los Dos that if they didn't like the food, he'd buy it for them. Now with four locations in Centennial (the original location), Littleton, Highlands Ranch, and Parker, Los Dos Potrillos provide customers in the South Metro area with "Real Mexican Food" while maintaining a family-friendly, "hole-in-the-wall" experience thanks to years of hard work by Jose Ramirez and his family.