Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Part-time
Work Schedule
Standard Hours
Day Shifts
Benefits
Paid Time Off
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Employee Discounts
Retirement Plan
Employee assistance program
Meal Allowances
Job Description
The hiring establishment is a well-regarded restaurant that prioritizes delivering exceptional dining experiences to its customers. Known for its clean, welcoming ambiance and attentive service, the restaurant operates with a commitment to maintaining high standards of cleanliness and customer satisfaction. As a key player in the hospitality industry, it employs a diverse team dedicated to excellence and teamwork.
The role being offered is a combined Dishwasher and Busser position within the restaurant. This role is crucial in ensuring the smooth operation of the kitchen and dining area through effective sanitation, upkeep, and customer service assistance. The position requires the candidate to maintain all dining and kitchen wares, ensuring they meet the required health and safety standards. Moreover, the role involves supporting the front-of-house staff by setting, cleaning, and maintaining tables and providing excellent service to guests. This job demands physical stamina, attention to detail, and a servant leadership mindset to ensure that all tasks are performed promptly and efficiently.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, embracing the values of enthusiasm, passion, and professionalism. In addition to dishwashing duties, the role also includes responsibilities such as shucking oysters, managing seafood prep buckets, assisting with customer seating, and maintaining the cleanliness of the entire restaurant including outside areas. This broad range of responsibilities ensures that the Dishwasher/Busser contributes significantly to the overall positive experience of patrons.
Employment in this position offers the opportunity to work with a supportive team, focusing on personal and professional growth while contributing to the restaurant's operational excellence. The position underscores the importance of compliance with company policies and relevant legal standards, emphasizing a safe and sanitary workplace. Candidates who possess good judgment, decision-making skills, and the ability to remain calm under pressure will excel in this role. Physical demands are significant, including the ability to carry heavy loads, stand for extended periods, and perform various physical tasks safely.
Overall, this Dishwasher/Busser role is an excellent opportunity for individuals who are dedicated to high standards of cleanliness and customer service, seek a dynamic work environment, and are eager to embrace a comprehensive range of duties within a thriving restaurant setting.
The role being offered is a combined Dishwasher and Busser position within the restaurant. This role is crucial in ensuring the smooth operation of the kitchen and dining area through effective sanitation, upkeep, and customer service assistance. The position requires the candidate to maintain all dining and kitchen wares, ensuring they meet the required health and safety standards. Moreover, the role involves supporting the front-of-house staff by setting, cleaning, and maintaining tables and providing excellent service to guests. This job demands physical stamina, attention to detail, and a servant leadership mindset to ensure that all tasks are performed promptly and efficiently.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, embracing the values of enthusiasm, passion, and professionalism. In addition to dishwashing duties, the role also includes responsibilities such as shucking oysters, managing seafood prep buckets, assisting with customer seating, and maintaining the cleanliness of the entire restaurant including outside areas. This broad range of responsibilities ensures that the Dishwasher/Busser contributes significantly to the overall positive experience of patrons.
Employment in this position offers the opportunity to work with a supportive team, focusing on personal and professional growth while contributing to the restaurant's operational excellence. The position underscores the importance of compliance with company policies and relevant legal standards, emphasizing a safe and sanitary workplace. Candidates who possess good judgment, decision-making skills, and the ability to remain calm under pressure will excel in this role. Physical demands are significant, including the ability to carry heavy loads, stand for extended periods, and perform various physical tasks safely.
Overall, this Dishwasher/Busser role is an excellent opportunity for individuals who are dedicated to high standards of cleanliness and customer service, seek a dynamic work environment, and are eager to embrace a comprehensive range of duties within a thriving restaurant setting.
Job Requirements
- Must be able to spend 100% of working time standing, walking, and reaching
- Pushing, pulling and lifting objects from a lower to higher position or moving objects horizontally, from position to position
- Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching in narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces
- Climbing and ascending or descending ladders, stairs, and ramps
- Must be able to carry loads greater than 50 pounds frequently
- Must be able to communicate clearly with our customer in the primary language of the restaurant
- Hearing sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction
- Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
Job Qualifications
- High school degree or GED preferred
- Six months to one year minimum dishwashing and/or busser experience preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Good reading, writing, mathematical and communication skills
- Able to interact professionally with other customers and team members
- Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Good judgment and decision making abilities
Job Duties
- Live by a servant leadership philosophy to always serve others first
- Understand and comply with all company policies, procedures, and operating standards
- Maintain energy, enthusiasm, passion and pride throughout the shift
- Perform the role of a dishwasher
- Maintain the dish machine with correct maintenance
- Know the correct chemicals and levels for the dish machine
- Be environmentally friendly with use of dish machine
- Clean, sanitize and store all utensils and equipment properly
- Maintain oyster tags, crawfish, and make peel and eat shrimp buckets
- Shuck oysters using correct equipment
- Responsible for pull thaw for the entire restaurant
- Perform the role of a busser
- Provide a clean and safe environment for customers
- Be aware of surroundings
- Maximize trips to and from the dining room, bar and dish area
- Provide clean tables quickly, quietly, efficiently and thoroughly
- Pre-bus continually
- Clean and maintain inside and outside of restaurant including grease trap, back dock and dumpster area
- Provide awesome service to all customers
- Always have a do whatever it takes personality
- Hold doors open for customers
- Pull out chairs for female guest
- Accommodate and meet special needs of customers such as senior citizens, large parties and business meetings
- Perform secondary responsibilities such as assist host by seating customers
- Support servers
- Help with restroom cleanliness
- Complete assigned opening, ongoing and closing sidework
- Maintain a safe, sanitary and secure environment at all times
- Notify a manager of all customer complaints
- Remain calm at all times
- Perform any other tasks or duties as assigned by a manager
Job Criteria
Experience
Entry Level (1-2 years)
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