Bartender at Bacchus Pub

Hotel Baxter, a Noble House Hotel; Bozeman (MT); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On Demand Pay

Discounts for team/family/friends

Job summary

The Hotel Baxter, part of Noble House Hotels & Resorts, invites applications for a Bartender at Bacchus Pub in Bozeman, Montana. You will craft cocktails, serve guests, and contribute to an exceptionally warm, high-quality hospitality experience.

Our culture emphasizes genuine hospitality, teamwork, and professionalism. You will help maintain bar standards, ensure guest safety, and support a lively, welcoming pub atmosphere in a historic property.

Qualifications

• Quality assessment of customer needs to maintain high standards.
• Use sales techniques to upsell products and services.
• Consistently meet guest needs at high quality standards.
• Clear professional communication with guests, vendors, coworkers.
• Adapt to different personalities of guests and coworkers.
• Resolve problems with good judgement and initiative.
• Utilize time management in a fast-paced environment.
• Take initiative and develop new ideas.
• Flexibility to work overtime when needed.

Responsibilities

• Use sales techniques to increase bar revenues from alcohol and full-service menu.
• Prepare alcoholic beverages for guests and servers.
• Serve food in the bar.
• Control inventory for alcohol and bar supplies.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of the bar.
• Stock alcohol and bar supplies.
• Improve bar menu and drink recipes.
• Prepare drink garnishes.
• Monitor guests for safe alcohol consumption and limit problems.
• Verify legal age requirements.
• Complete bar orders and cash/credit card transactions.
• Balance cash receipts at the end of each shift.
• Run cash reports.
• Complete side duties including polishing silverware and setup.

Skills

Quality control

Sales techniques

Customer service

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Time management

Initiative

Flexibility

Job description

Description

We are...

The newest properties within the Noble House Hotels & Resorts collection - The Hotel Baxter - Bozeman's Crown Jewel - is a historic landmark built in 1929 and has long stood as Bozeman's gathering place and gateway to Montana. As a team member of the Hotel Baxter, you will be a steward of a Bozeman landmark where every interaction with the guests and community delivers great hospitality, genuine warmth, excellence without elitism, and luxury without pretension.

Bacchus Pub is high-volume, full-service restaurant that takes pride in the quality of service and hospitality as well as the products that we serve. Our team loves to serve while cultivating a warm, caring, intelligent, and fun atmosphere. The Bozeman community is ready again to pull up a seat and see firsthand what genuine pub-house hospitality all is about.

The Bacchus Pub is currently looking for a Bartender.

OUR CULTURE | Individual Distinction, Collective Soul

The Noble House Hotels & Resorts philosophy emphasizes "location, distinction, and soul." Our properties are not a "one-size-fits-all." And neither are our team members. What makes us unique lies within our team. We are a group of individuals that share a passion for hospitality. We let our personalities shine, and we like to have fun.

It is our pleasure to welcome you to your new family. This will be an exciting journey that you have signed up for. We will stumble together, laugh together, learn together and most of all grow together. It takes a fully engaged team for us to reach our common goal of offering our guests delicious seasonal ingredients in a warm welcoming atmosphere.

A day in the life....

A bartender is the backbone of the front of house. They engage with Guests and are the leader on the floor. They create recipes for craft cocktails, make the alcoholic beverage for all guests and help the servers with recommendations. They also takes orders and delivers food and beverages. This position ensures the quality of the food and overall guest experience is excellent. A bartender is also is responsible for all billing and payment processing.

Reports to: Assistant Manager

Job Tasks

• Use sales techniques to increase revenues from alcohol and full-service menu in the bar.
• Prepare alcoholic beverages for guests and servers.
• Serve food in the bar.
• Control inventory for alcohol and bar supplies.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of the bar.
• Stock alcohol and bar supplies.
• Improve bar menu and drink recipes.
• Prepare drink garnishes.
• Monitor guests for safe alcohol consumption and limit problems and liability.
• Verify legal age requirements.
• Complete bar orders and cash and credit card transactions.
• Balance cash receipts at the end of each shift.
• Run cash reports.
• Complete side duties as required including, polishing silverware, restaurant set up, and filling condiments.

Requirements

You own this if you have...

• Quality Control and Priority Assessment: Assess the value and importance of customer needs to maintain a high standard of quality.
• Sales Techniques and Customer Influence: Use sales techniques and persuasive communications to up-sell products and services.
• Customer Service: Must consistently be able to assess, anticipate and meet multiple guests’ needs at high quality standards and evaluate customer satisfaction without projecting a mood that detracts from guests’ experience. Must balance bar guests’ needs with those of guests served by wait staff. This requires practical knowledge of industry customer service standards.
• Communication: Must clearly communicate in a professional manner with guests, vendors, coworkers and management. The ability to promote two-way communication by presenting clear ideas using thoughtful and responsive words. Nonverbal cues from a guest or server can alert the bartender to a potential problem. Must also understand instructions, read written company memorandums and communicate when he or she needs more direction.
• Interpersonal Relationships: Must adapt to different personalities of guests and coworkers without losing focus. Extreme familiarity or conflicts with coworkers often weaken a team-oriented work environment.
• Problem Solving and Conflict Management: Must recognize a problem when it arises and be able to resolve it appropriately by using good judgement, tact and initiative according to company policy and procedure.
• Time Management Skills: Must utilize methods and organization techniques in a fast-paced environment to ensure efficiency and respect the time of others. Bartenders must be able to direct others, such as bar backs and bussers, to maximize efficiency and team work.
• Initiative: Must take action frequently, collaborate with team members and develop new ideas that focus on results.
• Flexibility: Often work overtime, when needed, and assist the workload of others.

We've got you covered....

At The Hotel Baxter, we are proud to offer our team members the best perks and benefits.

• On Demand Pay- your pay before payday
• Team Member/Family/Friend home and restaurant discounts within Noble House Hotels & Resorts (nationwide)

Noble House Hotels & Resorts are proud to encourage and support an environment where everyone can be a successful team member (come as they are) as their true authentic self. We are an equal opportunity workplace and employer that does not discriminate based on race, color, disability, gender/sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. We are committed to building a team (rooted in family) and a workplace where we are all able to be successful based solely on our individual qualifications, experience, abilities and job performance.