What are the responsibilities and job description for the Café Team Member (Housing Available) - Winter 24/25 position at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area?
Description
Starting Pay: $20.00 per hour
Café Team Members are eligible for a staging program, which relates to applicable pay based on experience and performance. See the requirements for stages I, II, and III below.
Status: Seasonal Hourly (Non-Exempt)
As a Café Team Member at A-Basin, you are the face of our café-style restaurants and will help to create a welcoming, clean, and friendly environment. You will assist guests with F&B purchases with a helpful and positive attitude through the use of a POS system.
Food & Beverage employees at Arapahoe Basin are committed to creating “a day worth repeating” for our guests by ensuring legendary service and high-quality food throughout our F&B outlets. We strive to be thoughtful, creative, and energetic. We are known not only for our A-mazing skiing and riding but also for our A-mazing F&B options.
We are like a family here at A-Basin. Apply now and come join our Legendary F&B family!
Benefits and Perks for this position include:
- Unlimited skiing/riding at Arapahoe Basin and 20 other Colorado ski areas and resorts
- A free shift meal on each day working
- Free, transferrable A-Basin comp lift tickets earned for every 120 hours worked
- Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance for full-time employees beginning on the 1st of the month following the date of hire
- 401(k) for eligible employees
- Paid time off for all full-time employees
- Sick pay and bereavement pay for all employees
- End-of-season bonus for all eligible employees
- Financial assistance and mental health resources through WorkLife Partnership
- Much more! Check out all of our perks and benefits here!
Essential Responsibilities:
- Assist all guests in a timely and efficient manner with F&B purchases via the POS system and cash-handling skills
- Help create a welcoming and fun environment for our Guests and Employees in a Café setting.
- Maintain clean guest areas including cafés, dining rooms, and restrooms
- Remove dirty dishes from dish/ trash stations to the dish pit and stock clean utensils and cups for guest use
- Set up and tear down of cafes for Breakfast and/ or lunch service working as a team to complete daily and weekly checklists with other Café staff
- Learn and share information about A-Basin to guide our guests to the best experience while they are in our dining establishments
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
Experience Requirements:
- Must complete busser training
- Must complete cash-handling/IG training
- Must complete guest-service training
Skills Required: (with or without reasonable accommodation)
- Basic math and counting skills for reconciling a cash register
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Strong multitasking and time-management skills
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to withstand high-altitude conditions at all times
- Ability to stand and walk throughout an 8-hour shift
- Ability to navigate stairs occasionally
- Ability to use full range of body motion: bend, twist, kneel, push, pull
Other Requirements:
- Must be available on weekends and holidays
Work Environment:
- You will work almost 100% of the time indoors in a high-altitude environment. Some outside work in a cold and snowy environment is possible on any given day. Most work is performed in a highly trafficked area in view of guests. A very frequent amount of high-volume guest interaction is involved in this role. Riding a chairlift may be required for certain work locations.
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Café Team Member I: See the pay and requirements above
Café Team Member II: Starting Pay: $20.50 per hour
Fulfills all stage I responsibilities and requirements in addition to the following:
- Assist in training stage I Café Team Members on tasks including
- Work dinners at BML and at the 6th Alley
- 2 months of previous guest service experience
- 2 months of previous cash-handling experience
- Complete the “Train the Trainer” internal F&B training session
- Successful demonstration of all additional Stage II responsibilities
Café Team Member III: Starting Pay: $21.00 per hour
Fulfills all stage I-II responsibilities and requirements in addition to the following:
- Be trained to perform the closing duties of the café such as cash drops
- Use supervisor access in the POS system to issue refunds, process comps, and help troubleshoot errors
- Help train stage I and stage II Café Team Members
- Cross-training in other F&B locations
- 3 months of previous guest service experience
- 3 months of previous cash-handling experience
- TIPS certification
- Complete “Empowerment Training” internal F&B training session which includes: enforcing F&B Policy, leadership, positive work environment
Salary : $20 - $21