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Hawkeye Hotels represents the highest quality, state of the art hotels that are either new or newly renovated. We take it as a matter of professional pride to exceed the highest expectation of today's sophisticated travelers. Founded in 1982 with one roadside hotel in Mena, Arkansas, Hawkeye Hotels has become one of the fastest-growing family-owned hospitality companies in the U.S. We maintain lasting affiliations with leading brands, including Marriott, Hilton, and InterContinental. If you share our passion for delivering exceptional experiences to our guests, apply today to join our team! Bartender role We are looking for the best bar team in the city. Bartender is the key here! This position is about being professional, elegant, guest-centric, honest and always looking to be better! Expectations
- Be collaborative with your co-workers and leaders and use your intuition to fix things when you know they are not right or could be better
- Participate in daily line ups and quarterly all staff meetings to further develop ideas and objectives with the service team while simultaneously providing constructive feedback and strategizing to overcome and correct any previously missed opportunities
- Assist in all aspects of the F&B guest’s experience from beginning to end by extending a friendly greeting in an inviting environment, ensuring bar products and supplies are well stocked, and executing on requests in a friendly and timely manner, ascertaining satisfaction throughout and adjusting as necessary
- Work in an organized and clean fashion, with the utmost respect for your guests, peers, equipment, and workspace to create lasting impressions and strong relationships
- Use steps of service to provide professional service and exceed guest expectations, ensuring alcohol is served safely, responsibly, and legally and utilizing recipes and jiggers to assist in creating consistent cocktails, juices, syrups, and bases; and creating lasting impressions on all guests
- Be accountable for working knowledge of the menus, menu ingredients and what is unavailable for the day; and to serve alcohol safely, responsibly, and legally; and of course, accurately account for all monetary transactions during your shift
- Communicate effectively with the F&B and Culinary teams to ensure all guests get their food as ordered in timely fashion
- The hotel and company are a smoke-free, drug-free facility, and equal opportunity employer
What we are looking for
- Minimum of two (2) years’ experience as a bartender in either a free-standing or hotel restaurant or bar.
- Alcohol service certification and Safe Staff Certificate of Completion, or ability to obtain such within 30 days of hire
- Must meet local age requirements to serve alcohol
- Available to work a flexible schedule to include nights, weekends, and holidays
- Fluency in English both verbally and non-verbally
Additional Requirements:
- Continuous standing and walking and negotiating wet tile floor and steps
- Fine motor coordination is needed to pour beverages, decorate cocktails and folding napkins
- Standing and walking is continuous for 7-8 hours at a time
- Lifting and carrying 30 lb. tray, crate or box is occasional
- Negotiating varied floor surfaces is continuous
- Carrying over shoulder is occasional
- Hand and elbow movements for polishing glassware, silver, setting up tables, shacking, pouring, and mixing drinks
- Excellent sight and balance needed for negotiating varied floor surfaces
- Handling lighted candles, and handling hot fluids (coffee and tea)
- Ability to lift, balance and carry up to 25 lbs. to transport beverage goods inventory, equipment, etc.
Hawkeye Hotels is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.