Server assistant for Sorelle

Sorelle Holdings LLC; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the hospitality sector is seeking a dedicated Server Assistant to join their team. This role emphasizes the importance of creating a welcoming atmosphere for guests, ensuring they receive exceptional service throughout their dining experience. As a Server Assistant, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the restaurant's standards of excellence by supporting the front-of-house team, assisting with table settings, and ensuring a clean and organized environment. If you possess a passion for hospitality and a commitment to teamwork, this opportunity offers a chance to grow in a fine dining setting where your contributions will truly make a difference.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of fine dining service experience required.
• Strong dedication to learning and progressing in the fine dining environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure guests receive professional and gracious service at all times.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of workstations and dining areas.

Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Basic Math Skills

Fine Dining Knowledge

Food and Beverage Knowledge

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Tools

POS System

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Server assistant for Sorelle

Apply locations Sorelle time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R-101135

We believe that hospitality is a transformative art — that this “place” can do more than inspire and nurture its guests, team, and partners. It can inspire an entire city, country, and world. By captivating the hearts and imaginations of a new generation with renewed passion, purpose, and intention, we’re building a hospitality company and place that celebrates humanity. Where we can be a source of hope, care, and delight. Where people are inspired to be the best version of themselves — kinder, more open, and more gracious. And, that we have the power to carry that spirit with us into our hearts, lives, communities, and everywhere we go.

Job Description

While no job description can possibly provide a comprehensive list of job duties, the following is a summary of the major responsibilities for the position.

• Act with integrity, honesty and knowledge that promote the culture and values of Sorelle.
• Ensure that all guests feel welcome and are given responsive, professional, gracious service at all times
• Maintains clean and organized work stations that are cohesive with the restaurant’s philosophy, culture, and standards of excellence.
• Recognize or seek areas for staff and restaurant improvement and offer positive solutions for change.
• Operate within the restaurant on a daily basis with efficiency, respect, friendliness, professionalism, teamwork, knowledge, patience, awareness, compassion, courtesy and initiative.
• Understand completely all programs, procedures, standards, specifications, guidelines and training programs.
• Understand philosophy of management and owner. Displays consistent attention to detail and follow through of all restaurant policies.
• Represents the restaurant professionally through effective communication, cooperation and relationships with all business partners.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

(Includes but is not limited to the following duties. Other duties may be assigned):

• Understand and perform job duties to the expectations of Sorelle and the restaurant Service, Food, Beverage, and Wine manuals.
• Perform all side work applicable to assigned station.
• Participate in Pre-Shift meetings and learn new menu items.
• Welcome all guests and ensure guests receive responsive, professional, and gracious service at all times.
• Answer any questions about the menu, specific food items, the wine list or any other inquiries the guest may have.
• Liaise with server to ensure communication at all times about wants and needs of guests.
• Busses tables.
• Sets tables.
• Stocks stations.
• Performs Bread service.
• Serves and refills water.
• Prepares and serves coffee and tea.
• Maintains the cleanliness of the dining room.
• Stocks and organizes linen.
• Polishes china, glass and silverware.
• Maintain a clean, safe environment all times in the Dining Room and all service stations.
• Fully understand and comply with all federal, state, county and municipal regulations that pertain to health, safety, and labor requirements of the restaurant employees and guests.

SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS:

In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the manager based upon the particular requirements of the restaurant.

• Perform set up duties as requested to include side stations, storage areas and food staging area.
• Perform general cleaning tasks utilizing cleaning to adhere to health and safety standards.
• Fold napkins for meal periods to maintain an adequate supply.
• Perform other duties as requested, such as cleaning unexpected spills and executing special guest requests.
• Operates as a member of the team, helping others and requesting help as needed.

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills and abilities.

• Must be able to speak and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace.
• Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Must possess basic computational ability.
• Must have complete knowledge of and use the service guidelines outlined in the Server Assistant Manual.
• Further duties not currently listed in this outline may be added at the manager’s discretion.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Minimum 1-2 years of fine dining service experience.
• Knowledge of service and food and beverage, and thorough knowledge of fine dining, service procedures and functions.
• Cleanliness, organization and the ability to work well in a team situation are crucial to this position.
• Food and wine knowledge a plus.
• Must be minimum age to serve alcohol.
• High school or equivalent education required.
• Applicants must possess a strong dedication toward learning, and motivation to progress in a fine dining environment.
• Possess excellent basic math skills and have the ability to operate a cash register POS system and Microsoft based computer systems.
• Must be impeccably groomed, maintain good hygiene, good posture and have required uniform & tools.
• Responsive to constructive feedback from Chefs, Manager & other co-workers.

GROOMING:

All employees must maintain a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance per MG-SC, dba Sorelle standards outlined in the Server Assistant manual.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to communicate effectively with management, guests, and staff.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Server Assistant to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Most work tasks are performed indoors. Temperature is moderate and controlled by restaurant environmental systems; however, must be able to work in extreme temperatures like freezers (-10°F) and kitchens (+110°F), possibly for one hour or more.
• Must be able to stand and exert well-paced mobility for a minimum of 8 hours in length.
• Must be able to exert well-paced ability in limited space.
• Must be able to exert well-paced ability to maneuver between functions occurring simultaneously.
• Must have the ability to bend, squat and lift up to 30 lbs., including, but not limited to, lifting trays of food or food items on a regular and continuing basis.
• Must be able to push and pull carts and equipment weighing up to 250 lbs. on a regular and continuing basis.
• Must be able to bend, stoop, squat and stretch to fulfill cleaning tasks.
• Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening, hearing and visual acuity.
• Talking and hearing occur continuously in the process of communicating with guests, supervisors and other employees.
• Vision occurs continuously with the most common visual functions being those of near and color vision and depth perception.
• Requires manual dexterity to use and operate all necessary equipment.

While performing the duties of this job, the Server Assistant regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear. Frequently it is required to use arms and hands to finger, handle, reach or feel objects, tools and controls. Server Assistant is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

The Server Assistant must be able to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds, be able to work in a standing position for long periods of time and able to safely lift and easily maneuver plates, cases of water, chairs and dining room tables.

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