Expediter at Jack O'Neill Restaurant & Lounge

Dream Inn; Santa Cruz (CA); On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Dream Inn in Santa Cruz, CA seeks an Expeditor for the Jack O’Neill Restaurant to facilitate kitchen orders, ensure quality and food safety, and coordinate with waitstaff. The role is part-time, with a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities include calling out orders, tracking dish status, maintaining cleanliness and proper presentation, and assisting all staff as needed while ensuring timely service and adherence to health standards.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent vocational training certificate required.
• 1-2 years of directly related work experience.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of the English language.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate kitchen orders and communicate with waitstaff.
• Monitor food safety and quality control.
• Ensure timely order completion with correct priority.
• Inspect cleanliness, presentation, and temperature of dishes.
• Handle customer complaints on behalf of kitchen staff.
• Assist staff as needed.
• Keep work areas clean and stocked.

Skills

Communication Proficiency

Team Player

Initiative

Organizational Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent vocational training certificate

Some High School

Job description

Description

I. Position Summary

The Expeditor position is responsible for facilitating kitchen orders, maintaining quality control, and monitoring food safety.

II. Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 1. Ensuring communication in the kitchen by calling out orders, getting the status on dishes, and calling the waitstaff to serve completed dishes.
• 2. Informing the waitstaff when certain dishes or ingredients have run out and passing food requests from the waitstaff to the kitchen.
• 3. Monitoring the food portions on completed dishes according to restaurant standards.
• 4. Ensuring that all orders are completed in time and with the correct priority.
• 5. Inspecting the cleanliness, presentation, and temperature of completed dishes.
• 6. Performing the finishing touches to completed dishes, such as adding garnishes and removing smudges.
• 7. Keeping the cooking, storage, and prep areas clean, neat, and well-stocked.
• 8. Ensuring all staff adheres to health and safety standards.
• 9. Assisting all staff as needed.
• 10. Handling customer complaints on behalf of the kitchen staff and looking for solutions.
• 11. Complete other duties as assigned by shift supervisor or management.

III. Additional Responsibilities

• 1. Ability to perform assigned duties with attention to detail, speed, accuracy, follow-through, courtesy, cooperativeness and work with a minimum of supervision.
• 2. Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact, and diplomacy to defuse anger.
• 3. Ability to work well under pressure and handle multiple tasks at once.
• 4. High school diploma or equivalent vocational training certificate required.
• 5. Must be available to work a flexible schedule including mornings, nights, weekends and holidays as business dictates.
• 6. Advanced ability to comprehend and speak English to understand and respond to information and address advanced guest requests required both verbally and in writing. Knowledge of additional language(s) preferred.
• 7. This position will be required to maintain a valid and unexpired California Food Handler’s card on file.

IV. Competencies/Proficiencies

1. Customer/Client Focus 2. Communication Proficiency 3. Team Player

4. Initiative 5. Organizational Skills 6. Presentation Skills

V. Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not manage direct reports.

VI. Position Type And Expected Hours Of Work

This is a part-time position. Due to the nature of the hospitality industry, they will be required to work a flexible schedule that meets business and operational demands. Thusly, their schedule will include evenings, weekends and holidays.

VII. Work Environment

This position operates in the Kitchen and Jack O’Neill Restaurant, which has a noisy and high temperature environment.

VIII. Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

VIII. Travel

No travel is required during working hours for this position.

IX. Preferred Education and Experience

• 1. Some High School
• 2. 1-2 years of directly related work experience

X. Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• 1. Strong organizational skills
• 2. Strong communication skills
• 3. Basic knowledge of the English language

XI. Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all of the activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an associate for this job. Further, duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with, or without, notice.

Requirements

Must be available Tuesdays-Thursday nights.