Bartender / Lounger Server

Driftwood Hospitality Management; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Driftwood Hospitality Management in Falls Church, VA seeks a friendly bartender to serve beverages and light food, greet guests, take orders, handle cash, and maintain bar setup.

Responsibilities include stocking, garnishing, operating the POS, following liquor regulations, and ensuring health standards while delivering guest satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of liquor regulations for serving alcoholic beverages.
• Hold a current Food Handler Card.
• Basic math skills for handling cash and tickets.
• Basic English writing skills for requisitions and vouchers.
• Ability to operate beverage equipment and garnish efficiently.
• Ability to stand, walk, and lift up to 50 pounds as needed.

Responsibilities

• Greet guests, promote and document drink orders; mix and present drinks.
• Maintain bar setup; stock beer, wine, spirits, and supplies daily.
• Prepare garnishes and manage perishables; ensure product quality.
• Receive cash, verify charges, balance monetary transactions.
• Operate POS to create guest checks and room-service orders.
• Follow safety procedures, health standards, and company policies.
• Assist other beverage personnel when needed.

Skills

Cash handling

Garnishing & presentation

Stock replenishment

Cashier / POS

Safety & sanitation

Communication

Tools

Point of Sale (POS) system

Job description

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Receives cash from guests, makes any change needed, verifies validity of charges, records charges, and ensures vouchers are properly executed, to balance all moneys.
• Locks up and stores all beverages, food and other equipment items, deposits cash drops and secures bank.
• Responsible for answering bar phone within three rings and correctly and courteously take room service orders. 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.
• Performs general cleaning tasks using standard hotel cleaning products as assigned by your supervisor to adhere to health standards.
• Adheres to all company policies and procedures.
• Follows safety and security procedures and rules.
• Knows department fire prevention and emergency procedures.
• Utilizes protective equipment.
• Reports unsafe conditions to supervisor.
• Reports accidents, injuries, near-misses, property damage or loss to supervisor.
• Provides for a safe work environment by following all safety and security procedures and rules.
• All team members must maintain a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance. (Specific standards outlined in team member handbook).
• Perform any related duties as requested by supervisor/manager.
• Assists other Beverage Personnel when need.
• needed.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of all State, Federal and Corporate liquor regulations pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages to minors and intoxicated guests.
• Hold a current Food Handler Card.
• 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, and vouchers.
• Sufficient manual dexterity in hands to use a knife to make garnish, pick up glassware and bottles, scoop ice, mix drinks, and reach overhead to retrieve stock.
• Basic knowledge of the English language sufficient to understand inquiries from customers and communicate simple instructions.
• Ability to comprehend and apply written product labeling instructions to enable the safe application of products and processes within the hotel.
• Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items.
• Ability to operate beverage equipment, e.g., coffee maker.
• Ability to transport up to 30 lbs. through a crowded room on a continuous basis throughout the shift.
• Lifting Fifty (30) pounds maximum.
• Constant standing & walking required.
• Frequent twisting, bending, stooping, reaching, standing, walking, talking, hearing, seeing and smiling.