Dietary Servers - Full Time

Hours: 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM - weekend availability a plus

Job Overview

Ridgecrest Village is seeking a friendly, reliable Server to join our dining services team. In this role, you’ll help create a warm, enjoyable dining experience for our residents, guests, and staff while maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment. Servers play an important role in supporting residents’ nutritional needs and overall well-being.

General Responsibilities:

• Serves meals in various dining rooms and carries trays.
• Receives and prepares meal orders.
• Delivers and pours beverages.
• Replenishes buffet line with appropriate food from kitchen.
• Assists in preparing meal trays.
• Tallies diet cards to ensure the appropriate dietary meals are assembled for health center patients.
• Places cold items on meal trays and at tables.
• Prepares simple foods, for example as required, i.e coffee, utilizing air fryer, griddle, crockpot, toaster, blender and use of knives for cutting food.
• Clears and resets dining tables after use.
• Assembles all supplies needed to set tables, silverware and condiments.
• Assists in routine dietary cleaning tasks and special cleaning at supervisor’s request.
• Cleans refrigerators, walk-in coolers, and storage areas and disposes of any unusable supplies.
• Cleans salad bar area.
• Cleans all work areas used during shift.
• Completes weekly cleaning as assigned.
• Assists dishwasher in washing dishes and/or pots and pans.
• Delivers special dietary trays to health center or retirement apartment at supervisor’s request.
• Carries supplies from storage areas to kitchen work area at cook’s or supervisor’s request.
• Attends and participates in required in-service meetings.
• Performs other duties as directed by Food Service Manager and Supervisor.
• Demonstrates competency in skills mandated by required education and training.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications:

• High school diploma
• Able to read, write and speak English.

General Qualifications:

• Maintains a positive attitude.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule helpful.
• Must comply with any dress code requirements.
• Attends work and shows up for scheduled shift on time with satisfactory regularity.
• Communicates politely with residents, guests and staff.

Physical Requirements:

• Required frequent standing, walking, bending, and squatting to perform the essential job functions. 
• Able to push or pull over 100 lbs including carts of food dishes and wheelchairs of residents for short distances.
• Able to lift over 25 lbs such as pans of food and trays of beverages.
• Able to use hands and arms for simple grasping, pushing, pulling such as carrying trays, clearing and setting tables, sweeping, etc.
• Able to perform moderately difficult manipulation tasks such as writing tallies and name tags.
• Able to pour beverages and carry trays requiring steadiness of motion.
• Able to continuously see objects closely to read menus and diet cards.
• Able to see distance of 35 feet to observe residents needing assistance.
• Able to continuously hear normal sounds and voice patterns with some background noise.
• Able to detect the smell of spoiled food.

Salary : $14