Bartender

Htoads; Lake Ozark (MO); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A hospitality establishment in Lake Ozark, Missouri is looking for a Beverage Server to deliver high-quality beverage service in a friendly and timely manner. The ideal candidate will have bartending experience and be knowledgeable about food and beverage preparation. Responsibilities include preparing beverages, serving guests, maintaining bar stock, and ensuring compliance with liquor laws. This role requires good communication skills and a commitment to providing excellent customer service.

Qualifications

• Must have previous bartending work experience.
• Experience in guest relations is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve beverages and/or food to guests in a friendly manner.
• Maintain set-up of the bar daily and stock supplies.
• Prepare beverages and act as cashier for the lounge.
• Ensure compliance with liquor laws and regulations.

Skills

Basic knowledge of food and beverage preparation

Basic mathematical skills

English language proficiency

Manual dexterity skills

Ability to communicate with guests

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Reports To: Beverage Manager /F&B Director

Department: Beverage

FLSA Designation: Non-Exempt

POSITION SUMMARY

To serve beverages and/or food to the guests in a friendly, courteous and timely manner, resulting in guest satisfaction. Also, prepare beverages for other servers to supply to guests, and act as cashier for the lounge.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Maintains proper and adequate set-up of the bar daily. This includes requisitioning and stocking of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers, condiments and produce based on projections from the daily functions sheet
• Responsible for maintaining stock, cutting, and storing of all fresh fruit and vegetable garnishes, juices, and other perishables daily to ensure product quality
• Greet guests in a courteous and friendly manner, promotes and documents orders for drinks. Mixes, garnishes and presents drinks using standard ingredient recipes and practicing prudent portion control. Check guests for proper identification. Detect and act upon guest inebriation as trained. Demonstrate knowledge of liquor laws.
• Inputs orders into a register at the point of sale and creates a check for each guest and personnel guests, including those served by other beverage servers, to maintain accountability of all beverages served
• Receives cash from guests, makes any change needed, verifies validity of charges, records charges, and ensures vouchers are properly executed, in order to balance all money
• Locks up and stores all beverage, food and other equipment items, turn in cash drops and bank at end of shift to Supervisor/Manager
  
• Supportive Functions – In addition to performance of essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the supervisor based on the particular requirements of the company.
• Attend mandatory meetings
• Perform general cleaning tasks to adhere to health and safety standards
• Keep work area clean and organized
• Complete other duties as assigned by supervisor such as assisting security with disorderly guests
• Must adhere to all State, Federal and Corporate liquor regulations pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages to minors and intoxicated guests to ensure all laws are being followed

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Frequency Key: Rare – up to 1 hour, Occasional – 1-3 hours, Frequent – 3-6 hours, Constant – 6-8 hours

Physical Activity Frequency

Walking Constant

Crouching/bending/stooping Frequent

Reaching Frequent

Grasping Constant

Pushing/pulling Occasional

Near Vision Constant

Far Vision Constant

Hearing Constant

Talking Constant

Smell Constant

Lifting/carrying (#15 lbs) Frequent – up to 50 lbs

Travel Never

OTHER DUTIES

Demonstrate working knowledge of the service standards.

Regular attendance in accordance with the standards, which may be established by Camden On The Lake Resort from time to time, is essential to the successful performance of this position.

Due to the cyclical nature of the hospitality industry, employees may be required to work varying schedules to reflect the business needs of the hotel.

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) may be required while performing work duties that may have the potential of risk to your health or safety. The hotel will provide the required PPE. Team members will be trained in the proper use and care of any assigned PPE. It is your responsibility to report defective, damaged or lost PPE, or equipment that does not fit properly, to your manager.

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Positions directly reporting to this position (titles): NONE

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Must have basic knowledge of food and beverage preparation and service of various alcoholic beverages
• Basic mathematical skills necessary to operate a cash register, make change, total guest checks, count total bank, prepare cash drops, total all other charges, and understand portion sizes
• Basic English language writing skills necessary for completion of requisitions, balance sheets and vouchers
• Sufficient manual dexterity in hands in order to use a knife to make garnish, pick up glassware and bottles, scoop ice, mix drinks, and reach overhead to retrieve stock
• Ability to read, speak and understand the English language in order to communicate with guests and take orders
• Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items
• Ability to operate a keyboard and point of sale procedures to pre-check an order and close out a check
• Ability to stand and work in confined spaces for long periods of time

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

EDUCATION

High school diploma or equivalent required

EXPERIENCE

Bartending work experience required. Guest relations/experience preferred.

GROOMING/UNIFORMS

All employees must maintain a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance. Specific uniform guidelines and/or required articles of clothing will be explained to you as part of the orientation process.

OTHER

Meet minimum age requirements of jurisdiction

Notice:

The hospitality business functions seven (7) days a week, twenty-four hours a day. In addition, this is a hospitality business, and a hospitable service atmosphere must be projected at all times.