Resort Banquet Bartender-Banquets Singing Hills

Syucan • El Cajon, CA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Prepares alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, serves food for guest consumption, and operates cash register. This role involves providing bar service by reviewing banquet event orders, ensuring bar and beverage setup is correct, greeting guests, mixing and serving drinks according to recipes, preparing garnishes, opening bottles, pouring alcohol, serving wine and beer, receiving and delivering food orders, and managing glassware. The position also requires maintaining a safe, sanitary, and presentable work area, including securing beverage cabinets, checking product freshness and temperature, and cleaning. Additionally, the role involves accounting for transactions by charging correctly, using the point-of-sale system, counting cash, logging guest comps and credit cards, balancing the cash drawer, and reporting discrepancies. A key responsibility is ensuring responsible alcohol beverage service by checking identification, monitoring consumption, stopping service when appropriate, and clearing alcohol containers at the designated time.

Requirements

• County of San Diego ServSafe Food Handler Card
• CA ABC Responsible Beverage Service Certification
• 21 years of age
• 1 year bartending experience
• 6 months guest service experience
• 6 months food service experience
• General wine knowledge
• Menu knowledge of both food and drinks
• Working knowledge of responsible alcohol beverage service
• Working knowledge of liquor license guidelines
• Ability to mix a wide variety of alcoholic beverages
• Ability to prepare beverage mixtures from recipes
• Ability to assess guest sobriety and stop alcohol service when appropriate
• Ability to count cash and make change in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to recognize counterfeit monies
• Ability to perform simple mathematical calculations
• Ability to appear for work on time
• Ability to interact effectively with a diverse guest and team member base
• Ability to communicate effectively in the English language
• Ability to maintain professionalism and composure
• Ability to understand and follow verbal directives and written directions
• Ability to accept constructive criticism
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Ability to carry large serving tray and tray jacks
• Ability to stand for up to eight hours at a time
• Ability to bend and stoop
• Ability to work in a smoking environment
• Cash handling experience
• Cocktail serving experience
• Fine dining server experience

Nice To Haves

• High School Diploma, High School Certificate of Completion, or G.E.D
• Multi-lingual

Responsibilities

• Provides guests with bar service by reviewing banquet event order, ensuring and verifying bar and beverage set up is set as requested, greeting guests in a friendly and courteous manner, mixing and serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to guests, preparing beverages according to standard recipes, cleaning, chopping and slicing garnish as appropriate, opening bottles and pouring alcohol, serving wine and draft or bottled beer, receiving and delivering food orders when appropriate, informing banquet captain and kitchen staff of meal and bar adjustments and/or timing of delivery, and refilling and/or removing glassware as appropriate.
• Maintains a safe, sanitary, and presentable work area by securing beverage cabinets and taps, checking beverage products for appropriate temperature and freshness, replenishing as necessary, following correct beverage cooling and storage procedures, cleaning bar and counters, and arranging bottles and glasses following established procedures.
• Provides accounting of transactions during shift by charging for the correct amount of alcohol poured, entering cash transactions in to point-of-sale system, counting currency, logging guest comps, points and credit cards on to cashier drop work sheet, balancing money drawer against generated cashier report following established procedures, and reporting discrepancies to the supervisor or food services management team.
• Ensures responsible alcohol beverage service policies are followed by asking for proper identification from guests who appear to be under the age of 30, monitoring alcohol consumption, ensuring guests do not become intoxicated following established procedures, stopping alcohol service at the designated time, and clearing the room of all alcohol containers, glasses and bottles for each venue at the time specified.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED