Host

Host

Reports to: GM

Summary: Greets and seats customers in a fashion that contributes to the smooth, efficient operation of the restaurant and keeps the area around the front entrance and hostess station as clean and orderly as possible by performing the following duties.

Pay: $16-$20; Based on restaurant experience and knowledge.

Duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Prepares and maintains a seating chart for each shift and is familiar with the rotation order.
• Wipes down menus and keeps free from any food particles, keeps up with kids menus.
• Greets and seats customers in a courteous and timely manner as they enter the restaurant and/or communicates delays in seating and starts a waiting list.
• Checks books for any reservations.
• Accommodates special needs of customers and communicates any needs to appropriate staff.
• Assists dining room staff during rush periods by cleaning tables whenever possible.
• Observant to Guests' needs throughout dining experience to ensure they receive high quality service (i.e., notice a drink refill is needed while seating another Guest and ensuring the drink is refilled prior to getting back to the door).
• Answers telephone in a professional manner, takes reservations, takes and answers customer inquiries.
• Writes messages down for employees and delivers those messages when the opportunity presents itself.
• Communicates customer and/or employee difficulties to management.
• Applies knowledge of full menu and other restaurant information such as restaurant hours and types of payment.
• Enters computer and prints receipt as well as prepares to-go items necessary to fill order along with condiments, other food items and utensils.
• Completes opening and closing duties in accordance with approved procedures.
• Communicates any health and/or safety concerns/violations immediately to management.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Ability: 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.
• 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 25 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 and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Compensation: $16.00 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.