Description

Purpose for the Position:

To mix and serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to patrons of bar, following standard recipes.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Mixes ingredients, such as liquor, soda, water, sugar, and bitters to prepare cocktails and other drinks.
2. Serves wine and other draught or bottled beer.
3. Collects money for drinks served.
4. Orders and requisitions liquors and supplies.
5. Places bottled goods and glasses to make an attractive display.
6. May slice and pit fruit for garnishing drinks.
7. May prepare appetizers, such as pickles, cheese, and cold meats.
8. Performs in compliance with established company policies and procedures.
9. Performs in compliance with local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
10. Responsible for compliance with all state and local regulations pertaining to the public operation of the hotel’s bar area, including maximum safe occupancy, emergency exit accessibility, smoke-free area maintenance.
11. Responsible for knowing and recognizing in-state and out-of-state drivers licenses and state-issued identification cards.
12. Additional duties as assigned by Manager.

Skills and Abilities:

Use arithmetic to total costs and make change.

Talk with different kinds of people to find out what services they want and to give them information.

Stand or walk for varying lengths of time, sometimes for long periods.

Move fingers and hands easily and quickly to handle things like dishes, money, and merchandise.

Lift and carry things like heavy trays.

Physical Demands: Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time), and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time), and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Requires walking or standing to a significant degree, or requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls, or requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Environmental Conditions: Inside: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. A job is considered “inside” if the worker spends approximately 75 percent or more of the time inside.

Reasoning, Mathematical and Language Development are indicative of the general level of development required to do this job. Some, but not necessarily all, areas mentioned in this section will be included in this job.

Reasoning Development: Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, of diagrammatic form. Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

Mathematical Development: Add, subtract, multiply and divide all unites of measure. Perform the four operations with like common and decimal fractions. Compute ratio, rate, and percent. Draw and interpret bar graphs. Perform arithmetic operations involving all American monetary units.

Language Development: Reading: Read and understand instructions, safety rules, etc. Writing: Write reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech. Speaking: Speak with poise, voice control, and confidence, using correct English and well-modulated voice.

Relationships to Data, People and Things:

Data: Computing: Performing arithmetic operations and reporting on and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to them. Does not include counting.

People: Serving: Attending to the needs, requests, or the expressed or implicit wishes of people. Immediate response is involved.

Things: Manipulating: Using body members, tools or special devices to work, move, guide, or place objects or materials. Involves some latitude for judgment with regard to prevision attained and selecting appropriate tool, object, or material, although this is readily manifest.

Specific Vocational Preparation:

Specific Vocational Preparation includes an occupationally significant combination of: vocational education, apprentice training, in-plant training, on-the-job training, or essential experience in less responsible jobs which lead to the higher job or serving in other jobs.

Over 30 days up to and including 3 months.

To do this job, you must have the following licenses or certifications before being hired:

Current Food Worker’s Permit (if applicable) and Current Liquor Server’s Permit (if applicable).

To do this job, you must have the following amount of total education and/or experience: (If hiring someone into this position, this would be the minimum amount of experience and education that would be required in order for the incumbent to have a reasonable expectation for success.)

High School completion OR an equivalent level of education and experience; Bartender Certification of training completed and verifiable bartender experience are necessary.

Qualifications