Resort Banquet Bartender-Banquets Singing Hills

Sycuan; El Cajon (CA); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Sycuan is seeking a skilled bartender to prepare alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, serve food, and operate the cash register for events and banquet service.

You will review banquet event orders, maintain a safe, clean bar, ensure proper ID checks, monitor consumption, and balance cash at shift end. The role requires wine knowledge, high professionalism, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, hospitality environment.

Experience in fine dining and real-time guest interaction is valued.

Qualifications

• Must hold County of San Diego ServSafe Food Handler Card.
• CA ABC Responsible Beverage Service Certification required.
• 21 years of age or older with valid work eligibility.
• Minimum 1 year bartending experience and 6 months guest service.
• Knowledge of wine and food/beverage menus.
• Ability to mix drinks and follow recipes.

Responsibilities

• Provides guests with bar service by reviewing banquet event order, ensuring bar setup aligns with requests, greeting guests courteously, mixing and serving drinks, preparing beverages from recipes, garnishing, opening bottles, and serving wine or beer.
• Maintains a safe, sanitary bar area by securing cabinets, checking temperatures, replenishing stock, and cleaning bars and counters.
• Handles cash transactions: charging for beverages, recording in POS, balancing drawer, and reporting discrepancies.
• Ensures responsible alcohol service: checks IDs for under-30s, monitors intake, stops service when needed, and clears containers at the venue end time.

Skills

Responsible beverage service

Liquor license guidelines

Drink mixing

Beverage recipes

Identify intoxication/ID check

Cash handling

Counterfeit money detection

Math calculations

Punctuality

Diversity & teamwork

English communication

Professionalism

Following directions

Constructive feedback

Lifting up to 50 lbs

Carrying trays

Stand for 8 hours

Bend and stoop

Smoking environment tolerance

Cash handling experience

Cocktail serving

Fine dining service

Multilingual (Desirable)

Education

ServSafe Food Handler Card (County of San Diego)

CA ABC Responsible Beverage Service Certification

21 years of age

1 year bartending experience

6 months guest service experience

6 months food service experience

Wine knowledge

Food & beverage menu knowledge

Job description

Job Purpose:

Prepares alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, serves food for guest consumption, and operates cash register.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

(Note: Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, or changed at the sole discretion of Sycuan Management at any time)

• Provides guests with bar service by reviewing banquet event order, ensuring and verifying bar and beverage set up is set as requested, greeting guests in a friendly and courteous manner, mixing and serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to guests, preparing beverages according to standard recipes, cleaning, chopping and slicing garnish as appropriate, opening bottles and pouring alcohol, serving wine and draft or bottled beer, receiving and delivering food orders when appropriate, informing banquet captain and kitchen staff of meal and bar adjustments and/or timing of delivery, and refilling and/or removing glassware as appropriate.
• Maintains a safe, sanitary, and presentable work area by securing beverage cabinets and taps, checking beverage products for appropriate temperature and freshness, replenishing as necessary, following correct beverage cooling and storage procedures, cleaning bar and counters, and arranging bottles and glasses following established procedures.
• Provides accounting of transactions during shift by charging for the correct amount of alcohol poured, entering cash transactions in to point-of-sale system, counting currency, logging guest comps, points and credit cards on to cashier drop work sheet, balancing money drawer against generated cashier report following established procedures, and reporting discrepancies to the supervisor or food services management team.
• Ensures responsible alcohol beverage service policies are followed by asking for proper identification from guests who appear to be under the age of 30, monitoring alcohol consumption, ensuring guests do not become intoxicated following established procedures, stopping alcohol service at the designated time, and clearing the room of all alcohol containers, glasses and bottles for each venue at the time specified.

Job Specifications:

Education and Experience:

Essential:

• County of San Diego ServSafe Food Handler Card
• CA ABC Responsible Beverage Service Certification
• 21 years of age
• 1 year bartending experience
• 6 months guest service experience
• 6 months food service experience
• General wine knowledge
• Menu knowledge of both food and drinks

Desirable:

• High School Diploma, High School Certificate of Completion, or G.E.D

Skills and Knowledge:

Essential:

• Working knowledge of responsible alcohol beverage service
• Working knowledge of liquor license guidelines
• Ability to mix a wide variety of alcoholic beverages
• Ability to prepare beverage mixtures from recipes
• Ability to assess guest sobriety and stop alcohol service when appropriate
• Ability to count cash and make change in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to recognize counterfeit monies
• Ability to perform simple mathematical calculations
• Ability to appear for work on time
• Ability to interact effectively with a diverse guest and team member base
• Ability to communicate effectively in the English language
• Ability to maintain professionalism and composure
• Ability to understand and follow verbal directives and written directions
• Ability to accept constructive criticism
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Ability to carry large serving tray and tray jacks
• Ability to stand for up to eight hours at a time
• Ability to bend and stoop
• Ability to work in a smoking environment
• Cash handling experience
• Cocktail serving experience
• Fine dining server experience

Desirable:

• Multi-lingual

Supervisory/Managerial Accountability:

Direct: None

Indirect: None