Guest-Focused Food Runner: Fast, Friendly Table Service

Phelan Family Brands / Pinchers; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Phelan Family Brands is seeking a Food Runner to quickly and carefully deliver food and beverages to tables while providing hands-on service throughout the guest experience. You will engage with guests during their dining, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.

Join our team at a locally operated restaurant group, where a positive attitude, clear communication, and adherence to food safety standards help create a best-in-class dining experience for every guest.

Qualifications

• Ability to accurately read food tickets and expedite orders.
• Strong communication with guests and team members.
• Knowledge of food safety standards and quality assurance.
• Outgoing personality with excellent guest interaction.
• Ability to maintain a fast, steady pace during service.

Responsibilities

• Ability to accurately read food tickets and correctly calculate and expedite completed food dishes accordingly to longest ticket times expedited first (except for recooks and special requests).
• Ability to promptly inform all Managers of any long time check, as per the company ticket time standards.
• Working knowledge of all food recipes and specs to ensure quality assurance of all food products.
• Working knowledge and consistent focus on food safety standards.
• Food runners must always maintain an outgoing personality and be consistently friendly with excellent communication skills.
• Food runners must have the ability to safely carry and balance several plates of food at one time with a good pace.
• Food runners must have the ability to quickly read expedited food checks and to correctly deliver food to the table number(s) listed on the food checks.
• Food runners must have the ability to ensure that all guest expectations have been met before leaving the table.
• The ability to clearly communicate with guests and to both servers and/or a manager with any concerns or problems with a guest, such as a long time ticket, a food item that is incorrect or is undesirable to the guest.
• The ability to refill all non alcoholic drinks for guests and to clearly communicate with servers in the event that a guest requests a food or beverage item.
• A consistent positive attitude, handles stress well, and maintains a quick pace and the desire to have fun at work.
• A passion for high standards and the ability to provide Best in class service.
• Approach all tables with a warm, outgoing approach and correctly issue all food and beverage items to our guests. Creates regulars by interacting with guests throughout their dining experience.
• Observes tables and keeps track of clean, dirty and occupied tables. Pre-bus and bus tables as needed. Informs Bussers of dirty tables.
• Maintains filled water and tea pitchers, regularly tours the restaurant to interact with our guests and to provide refills to seated guests.
• Interacts regularly with seated guests to attend to any needs that the server may have missed or that the guest needs.

Skills

Reading tickets

Communication skills

Food safety

Guest service

Pace management

Job description

Phelan Family Brands is seeking a Food Runner to quickly and carefully deliver food and beverages to tables while providing hands-on service throughout the guest experience. You will engage with guests during their dining, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.

Join our team at a locally operated restaurant group, where a positive attitude, clear communication, and adherence to food safety standards help create a best-in-class dining experience for every guest.