Server
About the role
At Collared Martin Hospitality, the Restaurant Server plays a crucial part in ensuring our customers receive prompt, seamless service and excellent communication with the kitchen team. This role requires being knowledgeable about menu items, attentive, and focused in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Great conversational skills and teamwork-oriented
- Positive outlook and outgoing personality
- Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures
- Ensure uniform and personal appearance are clean and professional
- Welcome and acknowledge all guests according to company standards
- Speak with others using clear and professional language, and answer telephones using appropriate etiquette
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with others, support team to reach common goals
- Ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards
- Stand, sit or walk for an extended period of time
- Welcome guests and promptly attend to tables
- Serve food and beverages to guests making recommendations if needed
- Alert management to any and all issues that arise at a table
- Maintain cleanliness, sanitation, and organization of all service areas
- Properly mark all tables for each course before delivery of food to the table
- Clear each course promptly using clearing guidelines outlined in the sequence of service
- Continuously review menu items, and keep up-to-date with all changes
- Alert chef to all allergies
Requirements
- Follow all responsible alcohol practices
- Card all guests who appear under the age of 40 and never serve alcohol to an intoxicated guest
- Ability to lift up to 20lbs and stand up to 8 hours per shift
- Basic understanding of the English language (written and verbal)
- Excellent communication skills
- Master of time management
- Intimate knowledge of all food and beverage menu items, including full ingredient descriptions and all associated food allergies
- ServSafe Alcohol and Food Allergen or equivalent certification required
Qualifications
We value the power of genuine, personal relationships, inspired by the Collared Martin’s symbolism of exploration, loyalty, and homecoming. Our commitment to infusing soul back into hospitality and creating a culture rooted in profound attention to detail and local authenticity ensures that every interaction is an opportunity to connect and inspire. We pride ourselves in making each property a destination that resonates with its setting, where the experience itself becomes the true souvenir.