Bartender

Northwood Hospitality LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 17,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) savings plan with matching

Hotel room discounts

Paid time off

Job summary

The Darcy Hotel Washington DC is seeking a Bartender to join our polished team. You will prepare and serve beverages with courtesy, maintain a clean bar, manage stock, and ensure a superior guest experience at 1515 Rhode Island Ave NW.

Ideal candidates have hotel experience, strong guest communication, and basic knowledge of drinks and POS operations. This is a full-time, hourly position with tipping potential and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Hotel or hospitality experience preferred.
• Must communicate well with guests.
• Basic knowledge of food and beverage preparation and service of alcoholic beverages.
• Basic math skills to operate a cash register and balance checks.
• Sufficient manual dexterity to garnish drinks, handle glassware, scoop ice and retrieve stock.
• Ability to remember and promote menu items.
• Ability to operate POS to pre-check orders and close checks.
• Ability to stand for long periods and work in confined spaces.

Responsibilities

• Maintains proper bar setup and stocks according to daily projections.
• Maintains stock of garnishes, juices and perishables.
• Greets guests and documents drink orders.
• Mixes and garnishes drinks following standard recipes with portion control.
• Follows all alcohol service regulations at state, federal and corporate levels.
• Enters orders into POS and balances each guest check.
• Handles cash, provides change, verifies charges and balances money.
• Locks and secures beverage and equipment, deposits cash drops.
• Adheres to attendance rules and is available to work regularly.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Guest communication

English proficiency

Cash handling

Stamina

Tools

POS System

Job description

Job Description

BARTENDER

Be a Part of Something Special at The Darcy

The Darcy is an eclectic, 226-room boutique hotel in Washington DC, providing chic accommodations, distinctive dining, and over 7,000 square feet of meeting and event space. Classically American but with a European sensibility, The Darcy offers an authentic, original, and local experience that allows our guests to immerse themselves in the community.

The Darcy is located on Scott Circle in downtown Washington, DC, just half a mile from both the lively Dupont Circle and historic Logan Circle. Shops, restaurants, bars, clubs, theaters, galleries, museums and other Washington DC attractions abound on nearby 14th and U streets.

The Darcy is a polished team empowered to create remarkable local experiences with a dash of fun! We always take ownership, act with integrity and foster infectious pride to bring out the best in all of us!

We’re looking for a Bartender to join our polished and professional team—someone who brings infectious pride, acts with integrity, and takes ownership in everything they do.

Job Location: The Darcy Hotel Washington DC

1515 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington DC 20005

Position Summary:
The Bartender prepares and serves beverages in a courteous and professional manner, ensuring an exceptional guest experience while adhering to quality and service standards. They maintain a clean, organized bar, manage inventory, and comply with all alcohol service regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis. 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.
• Greets 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.
• Abide by all State, Federal and Corporate requirements pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages.
• Inputs orders into a register at the point of sale and creates a check for each guest, 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 moneys.
• Locks and stores all beverage, food and other equipment items, deposits cash drops and secures bank.
• Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
• Perform any other job related duties as assigned.

Experience, Skills and Knowledge

• Hotel experience preferred.
• Must communicate well with guests.
• 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.
• 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 with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to operate a keyboard and point of sale procedures to pre-check an order and close out a check with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to stand and work in confined spaces for long periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, customers and patrons.
• Must have the ability to communicate in English.

Compensation/Job Classification

• $12.50 – 14.00 / hr
• Full-Time Position
• Hourly / Tipped

Benefits: At Northwood Hospitality, LLC, we value our team members and are committed to providing a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that offers you choices for your physical, mental and financial wellness, creating value in your most important investment - you!

For your physical and mental wellness, we offer competitive health insurance programs geared to you and your family’s needs as well as vacation, sick, and holiday benefits. For your financial wellness, Northwood Hospitality, LLC provides a wide array of coverage, including supplemental, spousal and child life insurance and short and long-term disability. In addition, our 401(k) Savings Plan with matching funds, and discounts for hotel room discount programs provide additional incentives for choosing Northwood Hospitality, LLC as the employer of your future.

Northwood Hospitality, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to ensuring that all of our decisions regarding all aspects of the employment relationship are in accordance with our principles of equal opportunity. It is the Company’s policy that, in exercising our management responsibilities, we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristics or status protected by applicable state or local law.

Northwood Hospitality Diversity & Inclusion: The Company recognizes the value and importance of a diverse workforce and will continue to identify and attract a workforce of the best available talent at every organizational level. As the Company grows and expands, we remain committed to maintaining our workplace diversity, allowing us to maintain our leadership in the industry.

Source: Northwood Hospitality