Bartender - Alexandria
Farmers Restaurant Group - Alexandria, VA
posted 27 days ago
About the position
New Year, New Career? Be part of the opening team of our exciting new FOUNDING FARMERS location in Alexandria, VA. Scheduled to open in February of 2025, we are open 365 days a year for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a can't miss weekend brunch. We are excited to be bringing some new scratch made dishes in addition to our premium bar, featuring spirits from our distillery, Founding Spirits, to the neighborhood. Training starts January 2025! Our Bartenders are experienced, confident, and capable of providing exceptional hospitality in a busy restaurant environment. They have extensive depth of knowledge about our scratch-made food and drink, can tour guide guests through our menus with ease, and are integral to creating a welcoming, clean, and relaxed experience for our guests. Our Bartenders become experts in our service, our operations, our brand, and our company and are often promoted to bartending or leadership roles.
Responsibilities
- Assist in taking orders from guests for food or beverages
- Check with guests to ensure that they are enjoying their meals and take action to correct any problems
- Check patrons' identification to ensure that they meet minimum age requirements for consumption of alcoholic beverages
- Collect payments from customers
- Ring accurate guest checks/Sales using POS system
- Remove dishes and glasses from tables or counters and take them to kitchen for cleaning
- Serve food or beverages to patrons and serve specialty dishes at bar or tables as required
- Assist in cleaning of tables or counters after patrons have finished dining
- Explain how various menu items are prepared, describing ingredients and cooking methods
- Assist host by greeting, seating, and thanking guests
- Perform cleaning duties, such as sweeping and mopping floors, tidying up station, taking out trash
- Inform customers of daily specials
- Prepare hot, cold, and mixed drinks for patrons, and chill bottles of wine
- Stock bar with supplies such as coffee, food, tableware, and linens, fresh syrups, juices, ice, and other necessary items to perform a shift
- Are punctual and able to observe regular and consistent attendance
- Contribute to a positive team environment
- Describe and recommend wines to customers
- Provide guests with information about local areas, including giving directions
- Other duties assigned
Requirements
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time and lift up to 50 lbs. as needed
- Continuous bending, stooping, reaching, twisting and use of hands and arms
- 1 year experience working in full or quick service dining required
- Must be 18 years old due to service of alcohol
Benefits
- Flexible scheduling
- Health insurance plans available for as low as $100 per month after 90 days of employment
- Dental and vision plan
- Paid time off
- Paid pregnancy and parental leave
- Discounted shift meal and generous dining discount
- Free access to company massage therapist
- Discounted gym & yoga membership
- Free online mental health therapy through our partner, TalkSpace, for all employees and their immediate family members
- Training and career growth opportunities
- Free Employee Assistance Program
