Bartender

Lm Services Corporation; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Lm Services Corporation is recruiting a Bartender for Union Station Curio in St. Louis, MO. The role involves preparing and serving beverages, stock management, and cashier duties in a fast-paced hospitality setting.

You will greet guests, upsell items, and follow Marriott Standards for drink preparation and service. Local legal age checks and maintaining a clean work area are required daily.

Qualifications

• Bartending experience required. Any combination of education, training or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Must be of legal age to serve and pour alcohol.
• Prior experience in hospitality preferred.
• Licensing certificates may be required.
• Basic English language writing skills required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain bar setup daily with stock of beverages and supplies.
• Greet guests and upsell food and liquor.
• Input orders into POS and balance transactions.
• Check IDs to verify age.
• Maintain clean, sanitized work area.

Skills

Bartending knowledge

English proficiency

Cash handling

Garnish & drink preparation

Education

Bartending experience required

Tools

Point of Sale (POS) system

Job description

Job Details

• Job Location: Union Station Curio - St Louis, MO 63103
• Position Title: Bartender
• Department: Outlets- Restaurant
• Reports To:
• Date Written/Revised: June 6, 2014

Position Summary

To prepare and serve beverages and/or food to the guests in a friendly, courteous and timely manner, resulting in guest satisfaction. Acts as a cashier for the bar area.

Examples of Duties

Essential Functions

• Maintains proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis. This includes stocking of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers, condiments and produce based on projections from the Food and Beverage department as per guest occupancy.
• Responsible for maintaining stock, cutting, and storing of all fresh fruit and vegetable garnishes, juices and other perishables daily to insure product quality using product dating and FIFO method.
• Greets guests in a courteous and friendly manner, addresses the guest by name always, by utilizing 4Core. Promotes and upsells food and liquor with every guest. Mixes garnishes and presents drinks using standard ingredient recipes pouring liquor, beer, and wine to Marriott Standards.
• Inputs orders into a register at the point of sale and creates a check for each guest. Maintains an accurate record of all beverage items served.
• Processes cash, credit cards and/or voucher transactions, makes change as needed, verifies validity of charges, records charges, and insures vouchers are properly executed, in order to balance all monies.
• Stores and secures all beverage, food and other equipment, deposits cash and vouchers, drops and secures bank.
• Maintains and promotes a clean, sanitized, debris free work area and practices the “Clean as you go” method.
• Checks identification to verify age requirements to purchase alcohol.
• Provides guidance and insight to guests about property, history, and LAK (Local area knowledge).

Supportive Functions

• In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions.
• Performs general cleaning tasks using standard property cleaning products as assigned by your supervisor to adhere to health standards.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as requested (i.e., special guest requests, cross-training).
• Must adhere to all State, Federal and Corporate liquor regulations pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages to minors and intoxicated guests to insure all laws are being followed.
• Other duties as assigned, including: assisting security with disorderly guests, and reporting any suspicious persons or activity immediately.
• Discover and responds to customer needs.
• Maintains regular and consistent attendance and punctuality.
• All other duties assigned by manager.

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

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

• Must have basic knowledge of food and beverage preparations and service of various alcoholic beverages.
• Basic English language writing skills necessary for completion of requisitions, balance sheets and vouchers.
• Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of food & beverage items.
• 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 operate a keyboard to input Point of Sale procedures to pre-check, input order and close out the check.
• Ability to read, speak and understand the English language in order to communicate with guests and take orders.
• Ability to work standing and work in confined spaces for long periods of time.

QUALIFICATIONS

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bartending experience required. Any combination of education, training or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

LICENSES OR CERTIFICATES

• Ability to obtain any government required license or certificate. Example: Washington Health Card Permit, Oregon Liquor Service Permit. CPR Certification and/or First Aid Training preferred.

OTHER

• Must be of legal age to serve and pour alcohol.

GROOMING

• All associates must maintain a neat, clean and well groomed appearance (specific standards available).

FLSA Designation

nonexempt

Compliance

• Upon employment all associates are required to comply with the standards, rules and regulations which may be established by the Company and updated from time to time. Associates who violate property rules or have irregular attendance will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

Work Schedule

The Hospitality business functions seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Due to the cyclical nature of the hospitality industry, associates may be required to work varying schedules, weekends, holidays and overtime to reflect the business needs of the property. Associates may also be required to attend group and/or department meetings in addition to the work shift as necessary. In addition, this is a hospitality business and a hospitable service atmosphere must be projected at all times.

Additional Statement

This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that an associate in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.

I have read, or have had read to me the preceding job description. I agree to follow it to the best of my ability.