POOL BARTENDER

About the role

The Pool Bartender is responsible for serving beverages and/or food to guests in a friendly, courteous, and timely manner, ensuring guest satisfaction. They also prepare beverages for other servers and act as the cashier for the pool.

Responsibilities

• Maintain proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis, including requisitioning and stocking of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers, condiments, and produce based on projections from the daily functions sheet.
• Responsible for maintaining stock, cutting, and storing 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.
• Absorb 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, 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 any other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 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 being a team player.
• Basic 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.
• 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.
• Ability to stand and work in confined spaces for long periods of time.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, customers, and patrons.

Performance Standards

• Customer Satisfaction: Positive interaction with Crescent staff is essential. Treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances.
• Work Habits: Adhere to hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality, and attendance. Be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones, have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job, and ask for help whenever unsure.
• Safety & Security: Adhere to hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.

Pay

$22.50 per hour

Schedule

Regular availability is required.