Bar and Waiting Team - New Opening

The Lounges; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A popular restaurant group in Chesterfield is seeking a Front of House Team Member who is passionate about hospitality and excellent with customers. You will ensure a warm and welcoming environment, adapting your approach based on customer needs. The role offers shared tips, paid breaks, and extensive benefits including discounts and a pension scheme. Opportunities for personal development are abundant in this fast-growing business.

Benefits

Tips shared equally

Paid breaks

50% off food and drinks

28 days holiday pro rata

Christmas and Boxing Day off

Opportunity for personal development

Company pension scheme

Qualifications

• Natural talent and passion for hospitality.
• Good communication skills to build rapport.
• Energy and personality to adapt to different customers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure customers feel welcome and comfortable.
• Deliver great service across 14 shifts.
• Work closely with management and team.

Skills

Hospitality skills

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our new opening and become part of one of the most successful restaurant groups in the UK.

Lounges are pretty special places, and what makes them so special are the brilliant
people who run them - and you'll be one of them. As a Front of House Team Member,
you're a natural when it comes to making people feel welcome and comfortable.

You can read each customer. If there's someone with their head in their laptop just wanting a quiet coffee, or a group birthday celebration here for cocktails, tapas and good times, you can effortlessly adapt your style and approach for each. You'll work with management and the entire team, delivering 14 great shifts to make sure that every customer leaves happy. Which they tend to do. Because of your natural skills.

The Good Stuff

• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
• Paid breaks
• Staff food on every shift, regardless of hours worked
• 50% off food and drinks (including alcohol) from day one at all three of our brands - Lounge, Cosy Club and Brightside
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
• Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our supplier)
• Christmas and Boxing Day off!
• The best staff party - Loungefest
• Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
• Company pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast-growing business

What you'll bring

• Bags of energy, your own personality - and we can teach you the rest!
• A natural talent and passion for hospitality.
• Extremely driven and relentless at overcoming challenges or obstacles.
• Good communication skills with the ability to build rapport and trust.
• Self-motivator working at pace with limited supervision whilst adhering to pressure and timescales

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