HOST/HOSTESS

Host/Hostess Position

We are looking for a host or hostess to join our team and be the first point of contact for our guests.

The host/hostess position greets the customer immediately when they enter the restaurant. This position must possess a personal and energetic personality to welcome and seat guests ensuring their needs are accommodated. The host controls the flow of the restaurant through seating and alleviates servers from getting multiple tables at one time to ensure each guest gets an excellent service experience. The host must be aware of new menu items and specials and be able to answer all questions about the menu. The host may also act as the person responsible for to-go orders. The host follows up with guests as they are leaving to ensure they had a great experience and invites them to return. They are attentive to the FOH atmosphere and ensure that the lighting, music volume, and overall cleanliness are all being kept up for a great first impression.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Greeting guests as they enter, and putting them on a waiting list as necessary.
• Providing guests with menus and answering any initial questions.
• Seating guests at tables or in waiting areas.
• Assigning guests to tables they prefer, while keeping table rotation in mind so that servers receive the right number of customers.
• Engaging with guests to ensure they're happy with food and service.
• Responding to complaints and helping to resolve them.
• Answering phone calls, taking reservations, and answering questions.
• Knowledge of the menu.
• Helping out with other positions in the restaurant as needed.
• Providing great customer service.

Accountabilities:

• Menu knowledge
• Rotation seating
• Prepared, in uniform & punctual for shift
• Welcoming
• Aware of events & specials
• Friendly & attentive customer service
• Knowledge, skills, abilities

Customer service skills:

• Basic mathematical computations skills
• Ability to always maintain professionalism
• Ability to communicate clearly
• Ability to work well with others
• Ability to multi-task
• Must be at least 16 years of age upon date of hire

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.

Ability to lift 30 lb. regularly and 50 lb. occasionally.

Why work for an ethos hospitality company?

We value our family members for their relentless drive, focus, passion, and humility. We know our radical candor is what fuels our strength and innovation as individuals and truth is what drives us to greatness.

Our values stand for something, and we own them every day:

• Love and serve each other and our guests
• Do what it takes: It is not enough to do your best; you must do what is necessary
• Culture over strategy
• Leave it better than you found it

Virtues/be: loving, disciplined, competitive, loyal, consistent, persistent

If you want to belong to a family of people who care about what they do, and each other apply today!