Support-Busser/Runner

Bottleneck Management; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a talented Support-Busser/Runner to join their vibrant team. This role is perfect for energetic individuals eager to grow in the hospitality sector. You will play a crucial part in ensuring smooth restaurant operations by supporting servers, running food, and maintaining cleanliness. This dynamic environment promises to be fun and rewarding, offering opportunities for personal and professional growth. If you have a passion for service and enjoy working in a lively atmosphere, this position is an excellent fit for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits

EAP Access

Restaurant Dining Discounts

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-year experience in the hospitality industry.
• Ability to multi-task and work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Support servers and bartenders by running food and cleaning tables.
• Ensure bar and service area is organized and clean.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Multi-tasking

Judgment Skills

Education

High School Diploma

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Position: Support (Busser/Food Runner)

Our Support team members are a key part of our team, and critical to providing genuine hospitality and maintaining the flow of the restaurant's operation. This role is for a talented and energetic individual, excited to grow in the service industry and committed to providing quality service in a fun and casual bar environment.

Who is Bottleneck Management?

Bottleneck Management operates vibrant, high-energy, approachable restaurants in the most dynamic neighborhoods and locations. From the start, we've been about genuine people and genuine hospitality. We've grown into a crowd-pleasing hospitality juggernaut while continuing to hold our core values close to our hearts.

Core Values

Understand the wants and needs of others

Support others through words and actions

Empower each team member to excel

Enjoy each other, our guests, and our time at work

We believe it's our people that make us strong, so we're committed to finding driven, hospitable, upbeat, and intelligent teammates. Whether it's in our home office or our restaurants, we put hospitality first, like excellent hosts at a party.

We offer a fun and supportive working environment, comprehensive benefits, EAP access, and restaurant dining discounts.

Essential Functions

Primary Responsibilities and Duties

• Support servers and bartenders.
• Help run food from kitchen to tables and bar.
• Clean, re-stocking, and re-setting tables.
• Ensure bar and service area is organized, clean, and neat.
• Communicate effectively with guests, team members and management.
• Work under the guidance of our FOH managers.
• Ability to work both closing and opening shifts.
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Minimum of 1-year experience in the hospitality industry
• Ability to multi-task and work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Good judgement skills and adaptive attitude.
  
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
• Outgoing, energetic, polite, and patient.
• Satisfaction focused.
  
  

Hours of Work: Ability to work a variable schedule, including weekends.

Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A

Reports To: General Manager

Department: FOH Operations

Compensation

Please visit our Careers Page to view and learn more about payrates

Work Environment/Physical Demand

• Must be able to stand for full shift
• Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds
• Must have good hearing for accurate communication with guests
• Must be able to use hands and fingers to handle and feel objects, tools controls and type
• Must be able to work in areas of loud noises
• Required to frequently reach, bend, stoop, and carry
• Must be able to work in both warm and cool environments; indoors and outdoors
• Must be able to tolerate potential exposure to allergens: peanut products, egg, dairy, gluten, soy, seafood, and shellfish
• Extended periods of standing and walking to different parts of the restaurant at different levels
• Fast paced hands on position
• Dining facilities are both outside and inside
• Lighting is maintained at a low level
  
  

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

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Bottleneck Management provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

An equal opportunity employer.

We are an E-Verify Employer in Florida.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

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Preferred

Job Industries

• Other

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Restaurants

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