Bar and Waiting Team - Whitby

Lounge Café Bars; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant team as a Front of House Team Member at a forward-thinking café bar. You will be the face of the establishment, creating a welcoming atmosphere for all guests. With a focus on hospitality, you'll adapt your approach to meet diverse customer needs, ensuring each visit is memorable. Enjoy a range of perks, including shared tips, paid breaks, and a generous discount on food. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for personal development and career growth in a dynamic environment. If you have a passion for service and thrive in a team, this is the perfect position for you!

Benefits

Tips shared equally

Paid breaks

Staff food on every shift

50% discount on food

28 days holiday

Competitions and incentives

Christmas and Boxing Day off

Company pension scheme

Long service awards

Personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• Natural talent and passion for hospitality.
• Good communication skills to build rapport.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet timescales.

Responsibilities

• Make customers feel welcome and comfortable.
• Adapt service style based on customer needs.
• Work with management to ensure customer satisfaction.

Skills

Hospitality

Communication Skills

Self-Motivation

Adaptability

Job description

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% discount on food in all of three brands from day one
• 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 suppliers)
• 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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