What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fat Tuesday - Bar Helper - On Call position at Meruelo Group?
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Assist the bartender(s) and cocktail staff in performance of their duties.
• Maintain proper and adequate set-up of bar on a daily basis including before, during, and after shift.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of guest areas and equipment at all times during shift including removing empty glasses/bottles, cleaning ashtrays, picking up and dumping garbage, sweeping and mopping floors, sanitizing equipment, re-fill ice and beer bins, and utilize ice machines.
• Maintain and organize bar.
• Greet guests in a courteous, friendly manner. Interact with the public and provide excellent guest service.
• Know guidelines for serving alcohol with care.
• Know and convey hotel activities to guests.
• Maintain and organize bars and storerooms.
• Refill chemicals such as hand soap or glass washer chemicals and operate a glassware washing machine.
• Answer phones.
• Maintain proper inventory of products.
• Maintain a neat, professional image and appearance at all times.
• Any other duties as assigned within the scope of this position.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES
• Ability to remember, recite, and promote the variety of menu items and hotel services.
• Ability of simple reading, writing, math, and task completion skills is required.
• Must have the following skills: following instructions, memorization, problem solving, independent judgment, and decision making.
• Flexible to work all shifts including holidays, nights, and weekend hours as business needs dictate.
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
• Minimum one year experience as a bar back or any combination of education, training, or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES
• Must be able to maintain appropriate Alcohol Awareness card.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is constantly standing, walking, reaching overhead, bending over, and occasionally crouching during the duration of their shift.
• Must be able to push/pull and lift/carry 100lbs or less frequently and 50lbs or less constantly.
• The team member will constantly have repetitive use of both feet. Team member will constantly have repetitive use of their dominant hand, occasional use of their non-dominant hand, and constant light grasping motions. Team member will have frequent use of firm/strong grasping motion. Finger dexterity of both hands will be frequently required.
• Constant use of vision abilities is required including distance, depth perception, field of vision, and color vision.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
• Work performed outdoors, alone and frequently with and around others. Team Member will perform work face-to-face including verbal contact with others on extended shifts in possible confined areas around computer equipment and other mechanical devices.
• Team Member may be around flame/heat generated devices.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
• Team Member may be exposed to extreme heat/cold, wet and/or humid conditions, vibrations, slippery surfaces, dirt/dust, odor and/or secondhand smoke.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.