Server/Bartender

About the Role

The Lean-To at Great Pines Lodge is looking to hire bartenders and servers! This is a great opportunity to make our guests smile at a classic upstate New York resort. The Lean-To offers elevated casual dining fare in an rustic-elegant setting right on Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks. With 29 guest rooms on site and countless activities in the area, Great Pines hosts guests throughout the season who are looking for a welcoming, hospitable environment to dine in on site.

Our servers and bartenders offer excellent service and hospitality to all of our dining guests, both hotel guests and those visiting from the local community. They are ambassadors of the Weekender Brand and can have an immediate and defining impact on the guest experience. We are looking for the best of the best to be team players and make our guests leave and want to come back again!

About The Company

We are a young, fast-growing company (just recognized in the INC 5000 Fastest Growing Companies) of ambitious, mission-driven Weekenders working together to inspire personal growth through adventure, travel and exploration! Founded by Keir Weimer in the spring of 2021, serial entrepreneur with a history of founding and growing successful companies in the luxury real estate brokerage space, multifamily apartment investing, multimedia business, and venture-backed technology company, Keir is now focused solely on his true calling and passion … to inspire travelers to personal growth through adventure, as he and the team grow Weekender into an international disruptor hospitality brand.

This is a rare opportunity to be paid to learn, have an immediate and lasting impact in a young startup company and culture, and grow personally and professionally with an amazing team.

You will love it at Weekender if our core values below get you excited and inspired too!

Embrace a Growth Mindset

• Always be a student and always be open-minded

Be Adventurous

• Be excited by challenge and willing to fail-forward

Be a Ninja

• Commit to being world class at your job and lean-in to your superpowers

Be a Host

• Treat guests and teammates like you would family

Be of Integrity

• Own your Domain: Be accountable to your job & the greater mission
• Embrace honesty, transparency and vulnerability
• Follow-through and do what you say you’re going to do

You’ll love coming to work every day if you get, want, and have the capacity to:

• Make every guest feel at home with warm, welcoming interactions
• Provide excellent guest service from start to finish for every guest
• Be a natural host and problem solver, making every shift the best it can be
• Multi-task in a sometimes fast-paced environment

You’ll have success here if you value clear processes and feel qualified to do the following things:

• Use your experience in hospitality and/or food service and offer exemplary service to each and every guest at the Lean To
• Always be a host: be familiar with Great Pines Lodge and other local attractions and able to speak confidently about them to our guests
• Become intimately familiar with the menu offerings at Lean To and be a constant salesperson
• Take ownership of your responsibilities and surroundings, treating the Lean To
• Understand, embrace and embody Weekender’s Core Values
• Be on your feet for up to 100% of every shift
• Carry trays weighing up to 30 lbs throughout shift
• Frequent bending, twisting, reaching, lifting, walking and standing throughout the shift
• Use technology throughout your shift, being able to learn the basics of our POS at the restaurant
• Work evenings, weekend and holidays

This description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible responsibilities, tasks, and duties. Additionally, the responsibilities, tasks, and duties of the jobholder might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties may be assigned.

Compensation Package Offered

This is a part-time seasonal position. The Lean-To is open seasonally from approximately early December through early April, and then re-opens approximately early June through mid-October.

This is a tipped position that pays weekly.

As part of the wait staff and serving team at The Lean-To, you are responsible for providing top-notch guest service and excellent food and spirits to all guests. You're essential to making our guests return, time and time again!

Requirements

• Serving and restaurant experience
• Servers will interact directly with guests at tables, and our special events guide guests through the ordering process.
• Prompt, efficient friendly and knowledgeable service, guests will enjoy their time
• Multi-tasking tables and providing prompt, reliable service
• Work alongside team for side work and restaurant cleanliness and upkeep
• Weekend availability, flexibility during our busy summer season
• Positive, upbeat attitude
• Bartenders are responsible to checking valid ID's for those who appear to be under the age of 21 and completing ServSafe training
• Making drinks, mixed drinks and cocktails

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $10.35 per hour

Shift:

• Evening shift
• Night shift

Ability to Commute:

• Old Forge, NY 13420 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Old Forge, NY 13420: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $10