Bartender Virtue Feed & Grain 106 S Union St, Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Job Description

Provide engaging interaction to bar-area guests while providing timely service, timely service bar production, quality-assured food and beverages, and ensuring every guest leaves having had an extraordinary experience during their visit. Bartenders are expected to be attentive to our guests needs at all times and to succeed in making them feel welcome, comfortable, important and relaxed.

Responsibilities

• • Continually educate yourself on the specifics of menu item and cocktail recipes, methods of preparation, creative ways to sell the proper mix of items to your guests resulting in higher check averages.
• • Take initiative to ensure you are constantly up to date on daily specials, restaurant promotions, items the kitchen has run out of, etc.
• • Take accurate food and beverage orders and ring accurately into the POS system in a timely manner.
• • Pace the meals of your guests in a way which provides an enjoyable experience.
• • Achieve all steps of service in a timely and pleasant manner.
• • Regularly clean, stock and maintained the bar and related service and guest areas throughout service.
• • Comply with and execute all ARP policies and procedures regarding guest credentials to establish legal drinking age and identity, as well as other company policies regarding responsible alcohol service
• • Takes initiative to maintain a working knowledge of health code requirements and executes steps to ensure these requirements are met before and during service.
• • Inform manager immediately if a guest is showing substantial signs of intoxication or unruly behavior.
• • Assist other bartenders as needed and work together as a team with bartenders and barbacks alike.
• • Ensure that service bar drinks are made in a timely manner.
• • Regularly perform “straw-test” quality-checks of produced drinks before they leave service bar.
• • Handle cash properly and produce accurate and balanced end-of-night reporting.
• • Thoroughly achieve closing sidework objectives and ensure a manager on duty has checked over your bar responsibilities and granted approval before you leave for the night.
• • Present checks to and process payments from guests in a pleasant, accurate and timely manner.