Host

About the role

Be an instructor in the subject of work to all who come to Goodwill for training or job placement assistance. In that work ethic is more caught than taught, you will teach others by your own work ethic and passion for quality.

Responsibilities

• Graciously greets guests upon arrival, escorts them to their table, provides menus to them once seated, and informs guests of name of their assigned server.
• Manages special seating requests of guests consistent with table availability.
• Schedules day and shift assignments for all dining room personnel and notifies them of same.
• Assigns service stations to all servers and bus persons.
• Informs service personnel of daily menu changes and specials, and other matters affecting dining room operations.
• Supervises the operation of the dining room during meal service periods adjusting patron seating flow in such manner as to balance customers among the various service stations.
• Relays messages to servers and bus persons as appropriate. Assists with the duties of servers and bus persons needed to maintain service effectiveness and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Exceptional time management and organizational skills.
• Prior hosting experience in a fine dining setting.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, public relations.
• Ability to work with a team or individually.
• Ability to recognize importance of contributing to a team environment and support other team members to provide excellence to customers.
• Outgoing personality comfortable in social gatherings.