The posting
Hilton Sandestin Beach prides itself on providing each guest with the very best service. To do this, we must attract and retain only the very best team members to join us on our very special and singular journey. While our guests are the lifeblood of our business, our team members are the heart and soul that allows our hotel to thrive. Working with Hilton Sandestin Beach means working with a group of leaders committed to your success and your future.
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Free daily meal service (lunch or dinner)
- Health insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Position Purpose:
To serve beverages and/or food to the guests in a friendly, courteous and timely manner resulting in guest satisfaction. Also, to prepare beverages for other servers to supply to guests and act as cashier for the lounge.
Essential Functions:
- Greets guests in a courteous and friendly manner, promotes and documents orders for drinks. Mixes, garnishes and presents drinks following standard ingredient recipes and practicing prudent portion control.
- Inputs orders into a register at the point of sale and creates a check for each guest, ensures those served by other beverage servers are rung up by issuing drinks only per order receipt, to maintain accountability of all beverages served.
- Maintains proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis. This includes requisitioning and stocking of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers,
- condiments and produce based on projections from the daily functions sheet.
- Receives cash from guests, makes any change needed, verifies validity of charges, records charges, and ensures vouchers are properly executed, in order to balance all money.
- Locks up and stores all beverages, food and other equipment items, deposits cash drops and secured a bank. Saves empty bottles for returns & requisitions.
- Responsible for maintaining stock, cutting, and storing of all fresh fruit and vegetable garnishes, juices and other perishables daily to insure product quality.
Supportive Functions:
- Performs general cleaning tasks using standard hotel cleaning products as assigned by your supervisor to adhere to health standards.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as requested e.g., special guest requests and support of other F & B outlets.
- Must adhere to all State, Federal and Corporate liquor regulations pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages to minors and intoxicated guests to ensure all laws are being followed. Must be 21 years of age or older.
- Other duties as assigned such as assisting security with disorderly guests.
Specific Job Knowledge, Skill and Ability:
- Must have extensive knowledge of food and beverage preparation and service of various alcoholic beverages.
- Basic mathematical skills necessary to operate a cash register, make change, total guest checks, count total bank, prepare cash drops, total all other charges, and understand portion sizes.
- Basic English language writing skills necessary for completion of requisitions, balance sheets and vouchers.
- Sufficient manual dexterity in hands in order to use a knife to make garnish, pick up glassware and bottles, scoop ice, mix drinks, and reach overhead to retrieve stock.
- Ability to read, speak and understand the English language in order to communicate with guests and take orders.
- Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items.
- Ability to operate beverage equipment such as blenders.
- Ability to operate a keyboard and point of sale procedures to pre-check an order and close out a check.
- Ability to stand and work in confined spaces for long periods of time.
Experience:
Bartending experience required. Must be at least 21 years of age or older (please see Food & Beverage Bartender Addendum).
Other:
Due to the seasonal and business nature of the hospitality industry, employees may be required to work varying schedules and hours to reflect the staffing needs of the hotel.
We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment 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.
