Bartender

Job Overview

Creative and skilled professional responsible for crafting exceptional cocktails and providing a memorable bar experience. This role goes beyond traditional bartending by focusing on preparation of unique cocktails and mastering advanced techniques. The Bartender is expected to interact with guests, offering recommendations and ensuring a high level of service while maintaining the bar's cleanliness and organization. Success in this role requires a passion for mixology, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drink Preparation: Prepare and serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, ensuring consistency and presentation meet the bar's high standards.
• Customer Interaction: Engage with guests in a friendly, professional manner, offering recommendations and sharing knowledge about the drink menu.

• Food and Beverage Service: Serve food and beverages promptly and courteously, checking back with guests to ensure satisfaction and address any concerns or additional requests.
• Menu Knowledge: Maintain thorough knowledge of the menu, including ingredients, preparation methods, and beverage pairings, to answer guest questions and make recommendations.
• Bar Presentation: Set and clear bar top efficiently, ensuring cleanliness and readiness for the next guests.
• Check Handling: Present guest checks, process payments, and handle transactions accurately and responsibly.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with kitchen and service staff to ensure smooth/coordinated service and assist with other tasks as needed to maintain a well-functioning dining environment.
• Bar Maintenance: Ensure the bar area is clean, organized, and well-stocked, maintaining high levels of hygiene and safety.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with all health and safety regulations, including serving alcohol responsibly and checking IDs as needed.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Mixologist or Bartender in a high-end or fast-paced environment.
• Excellent knowledge of spirits, wines, beers, and cocktail-making techniques.
• Creativity and passion for crafting innovative beverages.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle high-pressure situations with grace.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Knowledge of health and safety standards for food and beverages.
• Certification in responsible alcohol service.

Work Environment:

Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures; report accidents, injuries, and unsafe work conditions to manager; and complete safety training and certifications. Ensure uniform and personal appearance are clean and professional, maintain confidentiality of proprietary information, and protect company assets. Welcome and acknowledge all guests according to company standards, anticipate and address guests’ service needs, and thank guests with genuine appreciation. Speak with others using clear and professional language. Develop and maintain positive working relationships with others, support team to reach common goals, and listen and respond appropriately to the concerns of other employees. Ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards. Read and visually verify information in a variety of formats (e.g., small print). Stand, sit, or walk for an extended period of time or for an entire work shift. Move, lift, carry, push, pull, and place objects weighing less than or equal to 50 pounds without assistance. Grasp, turn, and manipulate objects of varying size and weight, requiring fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Move through narrow, confined, or elevated spaces. Move over sloping, uneven, or slippery surfaces as well as up and down stairs and/or service ramps. Reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping. Perform other reasonable job duties as requested by Supervisors. Participates in the development and implementation of corrective action plans. Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Licenses or Certificates

• Ability to obtain any government required licenses or certificates.

Grooming

• All employees must maintain a neat, clean, and well-groomed appearance.

(Specific standards are available).

Other

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements,

efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an

accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to

require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g.

emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, seasonality, rush jobs or technological.)