Waiting Staff

InterContinental Hotels Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading hotel group in Edinburgh is looking for a driven Waiter/Waitress to join their team. This part-time role involves serving guests with positivity, handling queries, and ensuring timely order delivery. Candidates should have relevant experience and a warm personality. Competitive pay and employee benefits offered.

Benefits

Financial security with guaranteed hours

Employee discounts at hotels and dining

Paid holidays

Training and career progression opportunities

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Server, Waiter/Waitress, Barista, Bartender, or Host.
• Warm personality with a can-do attitude.
• Willingness to work as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Availability to work 20 hours weekly, including weekends and holidays.
• Serve food and beverages to guests.
• Deal with customer queries or complaints.
• Collaborate with the kitchen team for order delivery.

Skills

Experienced in food service

Positive attitude

Ability to handle customer queries

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an authentic and driven Waiter/Waitress (Part Time) to join us at Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections.

Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel brings together traditional Edinburgh architecture with an exciting and fresh indoor feel, offering our guests a modern luxurious stay. Welcoming locals to relax in our Garden area (a must visit), experiencing mouth-watering food in BABA restaurant, or guests from far and wide being pampered in our state-of-the-art Spa – we cover it all!

What we offer

As a Waiter/Waitress, we will support you to:

• Be yourself – bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

Responsibilities

• Availability to work 20 hours per week, including weekends, evenings and bank holidays
• Serve our guests food and beverages with a positive attitude
• Deal with customer queries or complaints
• Work alongside our kitchen team to ensure timely delivery of orders

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience working within a Restaurant, Bar or Hotel as a Server, Waiter/Waitress, Barista, Bartender or Host
• Drive to produce results; our team works together to provide our guests with extremely personal experiences and human connection
• A warm and authentic personality, with a can-do attitude and commitment to service
• Willingness to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests

Additional Information

Joining the Kimpton family isn’t just about providing our guests with excellent service, we also have secured a spot in Fortune’s ‘100 best companies to work for’ 7 times since 2009, and it is no surprise why. We can offer you…

• Financial security – £12.60 per hour (£26,208.00 per annum FTE), guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support and enhanced sick pay! Plus Tronc paid monthly if in eligible role. Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Growth and development – extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
• Colleague perks – worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F&B whilst on employee rate (IHG has over 6,000 hotels and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perks portal.
• Wellbeing – generous maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders
• Hotel specific benefits – complimentary stay for you+1 in our Hotel upon successful completion of probation, generous discounts across our F&B outlets at Kimpton Charlotte Square and InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel plus Spa and gym discounts at our Kimpton property.

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @kimptoncharlottesquare to see more.

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual\'s race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Who we are

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

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