The Plaza - Box Bartender

Standard International Management, LLC.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Pet insurance

401k matching

Employee discounts

Meals provided

Referral program

Commuter discounts

Staff events

Job summary

The Standard is seeking a Box Bartender to join the Food and Beverage team in New York. You will craft wine, beer, cocktails, and non-alcoholic beverages behind the bar, delivering swift, friendly service to guests.

This full-time position requires excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work flexible hours, and the capacity to adapt to venue concepts that change throughout the year.

Qualifications

• Bartenders handle guest relations at the bar and ensure swift, uniform service.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours and under pressure.
• Ability to adapt to venue concepts that change multiple times a year.
• Takes initiative and ownership of the bar and program.

Responsibilities

• Produce all wine, beer, cocktails, NA beverages and coffee drinks for outlet.
• Operate efficiently, swift, accommodating and professional.
• Prepare beverages and menu items uniformly according to established standards.
• Stock daily inventory and product.
• Prep fruits, garnishes, and juices; ensure freshness.
• Maintain cleanliness and design aesthetics of visible bar areas.
• Complete side work as required by schedule.
• Know menu items and be able to answer guest questions.
• Provide production quality consistent with established standards and DOH compliance.

Skills

Wine knowledge

Craft cocktails

Guest service

Bar operations

Tools

POS system

Job description

The Standard is one of the most culturally engaged hotels in the world. Hotels with real cultural life, an inclusive spirit and true creative attitude. A destination layered with events and amusements that leaves you with an uplifted feeling.

The Standard's irreverent and playful sensibility, combined with a careful consideration of design, detail and service, have established its reputation as a pioneer of hospitality, travel, dining, nightlife, and beyond. The Standard hotels are known for their taste-making clientele, their pioneering design, and their unrelenting un-Standard-ness.

Mission Statement

To create experience by embracing and empowering a diverse collective of team members, collaborators, and guests, who choose to call The Standard home.

Our Purpose

The Standard's commitment is to being an anchor for each neighbourhood in which we reside as well as a platform for culture and creativity. Bringing people together in its spaces to interact with each other in genuine ways.

Our promise is to ensure that a stay is an experience and that a memory means making friends and having stories to tell. To understand why it exists, is to understand that The Standard, is a platform for people to meet, to engage, to learn, to dine, to sleep, to dance, to hideaway, to make believe and to do so whilst being yourself and having fun doing it.

We think of ourselves as a stage, not just a hotel. Here, you can become whomever you like, even if for just a night. Here, you will meet new friends, find new challenges, eat new food, stay up late, sleep in later, and at times, never even leave the property. We are unapologetically comfortable with disrupting expectations. It's WHO WE ARE!

#StandardFamily

Job Title: Box Bartender - Full Time

Department: Food and Beverage

Location: The Living Room/Plaza

Reporting to: Venue General Manager/MOD

Responsible for: N/A

Job Purpose: Bartenders are responsible for all aspects of guest relations service behind bar and related bar areas, including general upkeep of bar and providing swift, uniform and consistent service.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Produce all Wine, Beer, Cocktail, NA Beverage and Coffee drinks for outlet
• Operate in an efficient, swift, accommodating and professional manner
• Prepare beverage and menu items uniformly according to established standards, expectations and recipes
• Stock daily inventory and product
• Fill requisition sheet and give to manager
• Prep all fruits, garnishes, and juices and ensure freshness
• Maintain cleanliness and design aesthetics of all areas, especially those visible to guests including: bar pass, glass shelves, bar back, and storage areas.
• Complete all side work requirements, including pre and post shift, daily, and monthly duties
• Know and understand the menu items, being able to answer questions and speak about them where needed
• Swift, efficient, and uniform service of orders per drink ticket
• Provide level of production quality consistent with established standards in every aspect
• Maintain DOH Standards at all times
• Perform other duties as requested by manager
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours and under pressure
• Ability to adapt to venue concept which changes multiple time a year
• Takes initiative and ownership of the bar and program. Anticipates needs of the team.

Physical Requirements

• Physical:
  • Able to work standing for a minimum period of 8 hours a day
  • Periodical bending, kneeling, and stretching
  • Able to pull, push, carry and lift at least 40 pounds of force
  • Must be able to seize, grasp, turn and hold objects with hands
  • Frequently required to work in a limited physical space with variable atmospheric conditions including the following areas: ventilation, lighting, smoke, and temperature.
• Excellent knowledge of all bar products
• Understanding: Ability to read, comprehend and carry out instructions according to established procedures
• Comprehension: Fluent in the English language
• Organizational Skills: Work efficiently, utilize multi-tasking, prioritize tasks
• Hygiene and Sanitation: Adherence to uniform, grooming and personal hygiene standards and expectations per SOP's
• Punctuality: Adherence to posted schedule and arrival time and attendance at mandatory meetings when scheduled
• Responsibility: Personal comportment in line with Standard, New York policies, standards, and expectations

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay Rate $24 per hour - Full Time
• Excellent and Affordable Health care coverage
• Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Pet Insurance

Up to 104 hours PTO

56 hours - Paid Protected Time Off (Sick)

32 hours - Unpaid Protected Time Off

• 401k - Company matching up to 2% after 1 year
• Employee Discounts on Rooms, F&B, Retail, and The Standard Marketplace
• Employee Meals, Employee Referral Program, Commuter Discounts
• Regular fun staff events and celebrations!!!