Community-Driven Bartender: Friendly Service & Drinks

Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar; Garden City (KS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrive Restaurant Group is seeking a Bartender to craft cocktails and beverages in a welcoming Applebee’s environment. You’ll interact with guests, mix drinks, and help ensure a great bar experience within a family atmosphere.

The position emphasizes service, teamwork, and accurate order handling, with a focus on hospitality and community engagement. Tip credit pay structure applies and tips supplement earnings.

Qualifications

• A desire to care for others, grow, and learn.
• A positive attitude.
• Able to operate blenders, frozen drink machines and other bar equipment.
• Stands during the entire shift.
• Reading, writing, basic math and verbal communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Mixes ingredients such as liquor, soda, water, and fruit juice to prepare alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (30%*).
• Interacts verbally with all bar guests creating a friendly and upbeat atmosphere (20%*).
• Serves food and drinks to all bar guests (15%*).
• Completes assigned opening and closing side work (15%*).
• Slices fruit and vegetable garnishes for drinks (5%*).
• Presents guest checks to bar patrons. Makes correct change and/or completes any necessary charge card transactions (5%*).
• Processes employee and/or manager food orders (5%*).
• Relays food orders to the kitchen via the point-of-sale computerized register system (5%).

Skills

Customer care

Positive attitude

Bar equipment operation

Stands for shift

Basic math

Communication

Job description

Thrive Restaurant Group is seeking a Bartender to craft cocktails and beverages in a welcoming Applebee’s environment. You’ll interact with guests, mix drinks, and help ensure a great bar experience within a family atmosphere.

The position emphasizes service, teamwork, and accurate order handling, with a focus on hospitality and community engagement. Tip credit pay structure applies and tips supplement earnings.