Aloft Lounge Weekend Bartender

About the role

Aloft Mountain View is a fun boutique hotel located near Googleplex in Mountain View, California. We are seeking an energetic, customer service-oriented, and motivated Bartender to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Maintain proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis.
• Requisition and stock of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers, condiments and produce based on projections from the daily functions sheet.
• Maintain stock, cut, and store of all fresh fruit and vegetable garnishes, juices and other perishables daily to ensure product quality.
• Greet guests in a courteous and friendly manner, promote and document orders for drinks.
• Mix, garnish, and present drinks using standard ingredient recipes and practicing prudent portion control.
• Abide by all State, Federal and Corporate requirements pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages.
• Input orders into a register at the point of sale and create a check for each guest, including those served by other beverage servers, to maintain accountability of all beverages served.
• Receive cash from guests, make any change needed, verify validity of charges, record charges, and ensure vouchers are properly executed, in order to balance all moneys.
• Lock up and store all beverage, food and other equipment items, deposit cash drops and secure bank.
• Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• At least six months of experience as a Bartender.
• Food handler and TIPS (or equivalent) certifications.
• Ability to communicate in English.
• Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
• Communicate well with guests.
• Willingness to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.
• Basic knowledge of food and beverage preparation and service of various alcoholic beverages.
• 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 remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items.
• Ability to operate a keyboard and point of sale procedures to pre-check an order and close out a check.

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to communicate in English.
• Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
• Communicate well with guests.
• Willingness to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.
• Basic knowledge of food and beverage preparation and service of various alcoholic beverages.
• 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 remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items.
• Ability to operate a keyboard and point of sale procedures to pre-check an order and close out a check.

Skills

• Customer service orientation.
• Alcohol service knowledge.
• Basic math skills.
• Hand coordination and dexterity.
• Keyboard and POS familiarity.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) with a match.
• Vacation, sick, holiday pay.
• Hotel room discounts.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Hours are flexible and may vary based on business needs.