Bartender

Position Summary:
The Bartender provides food and beverage services to customers in the bar in a friendly, efficient, and professional manner and ensures a positive experience for all customers. Each Bartender is responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of the Gibsons Restaurant Group’s philosophy, which is based upon four distinct core beliefs: Hospitality, Quality, Value and Family.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve customers as part of a team by anticipating their needs, initiating conversation, offering assistance and advice and remembering that “the customer is always right”!
• Check identification to ensure customers meet minimum age requirements for consuming alcoholic beverages.
• Must responsibly serve customers alcohol according to the guidelines of safe serving.
• Mix and serve alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks to patrons of bar, following standard recipes. Mix ingredients, such as liquor, soda, water, sugar and bitters to prepare cocktails and other drinks.
• Serve wine and draught or bottled beer.
• Accurately enters orders into POS, collects money and returns change for drinks/food served. Accurately reports tips for each shift.
• Arrange bottles and glasses to make attractive display. Slice and pits fruit for garnishing drinks.
• Maintain a neat and clean bar area on a continual basis.
• Be aware of potential hazards, which could cause, but are not limited to, slipping, tripping, falling or burns.
• Arrive for each shift on time and in full uniform.
• Attend all pre-shift meetings ready to “listen and learn” and share ideas. Avoid leaving work area during peak periods.
• Take breaks only when approved by the General Manager or Manager. Keep a clean and professional appearance at all times.
• Take and delivers food orders for customers dining in bar area.
• Have extensive knowledge of the restaurant’s menu and wine list, including daily specials. May tend service bar and be designated Service Bartender.
• Make change for servers.
• May perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
To perform the Bartender job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:
High school diploma or GED preferred and six months to one year related experience; or a combination of education and experience.