What are the responsibilities and job description for the FOOD RUNNER position at King Street Oyster Bar DC LLC?
Description
Food Runner responsibilities include setting tables, serving food orders and removing used dishes and utensils. If you’d like to gain experience in the restaurant industry and learn how to provide an excellent dining experience, we’d like to meet you. To be considered for this role, you should be available to work various shifts, including weekends.
Ultimately, you will ensure our guests have a high-quality dining experience by serving their food in a timely and accurate manner.
Food Runner Responsibilities:
- Picks up food product for orders placed by the service staff and delivers the meal to our guests.
- Assists the kitchen and service staff as needed to maintain the highest level of food quality, presentation, and timing to optimize our guests dining experience.
- Sets up the front line with the equipment, plateware, and smallwares needed to effectively serve all food products.
- Keeps station restocked throughout the shift.
- Cleans large and small trays and tray stands to be ready for service.
- Reads order tickets as they arrive and place onto ticket minder.
- Tracks cooking times on all orders, checks finished product for proper degree of doneness, appearance, and plate presentation.
- Garnishes finished entrees according to house specifications and procedures.
- Assists the server as needed to optimize the guest’s dining experience.
- Accomplishes all job duties while adhering to all safety guidelines and practices throughout the shift.
- Reports any unsafe condition, unsafe act, accidents and/or injuries to the chef or other manager on duty.
- Correctly completes closing duties at the end of each shift.
- Assists Chef and other kitchen personnel in accomplishing closing duties and kitchen cleanliness.
- Completes all side work in the front and/or back of the house as assigned and scheduled by the members of the management team.
Requirements
- Customer service
- Self-motivated with a high energy level
- Verbal communication
