As a Server Assistant, you will be essential in enhancing the overall dining experience for members and guests by supporting servers, bartenders, and hosts. This includes coordinating reservations, managing seating arrangements, assisting with food and beverage orders, bussing and resetting tables, performing barback duties, and maintaining the dining area to the highest standards of cleanliness and organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Guest Interaction-

Provide immediate and warm attention to all guests upon seating, ensuring a positive first impression. Coordinate and manage dining room floor seating to optimize flow and guest satisfaction.

Service Assistance-

Assist servers with taking drink orders, food orders, and addressing other guest requests as needed. Deliver food and beverages promptly and accurately to guests. Act as a barback, ensuring bartenders have the supplies they need during busy service periods. Refill water glasses, clear used plates, and reset tables quickly and efficiently.

Bussing and Table Resetting-

Clear tables after guests have finished dining, ensuring all items are removed promptly and neatly. Reset tables to Pine Canyon standards, including linens, flatware, glassware, and other table settings. Clean chairs and table surfaces, ensuring a spotless and inviting environment for the next guest. Sweep or vacuum around tables and dining areas as needed.

Dining Room Preparation-

Set up tables to Pine Canyon standards, including linens, flatware, and glassware. Ensure server workstations are well-stocked and organized for smooth operations.

Food Preparation and Delivery-

Organize plated dishes in the kitchen window, ensuring accuracy with tickets before running food to tables. Communicate with the kitchen team to correct any discrepancies in orders before delivery.

Maintenance and Cleanliness-

Clean and maintain workstations, dining areas, and surrounding spaces. Remove trash and ensure the dining area is spotless at all times.

Additional Duties-

Participate in team pre-shift meetings and adhere to safe work practices. Perform other duties as assigned by supervisors or management.

Education/Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands:

Frequently stands and walks; uses hands; reaches with arms and hands; stoops, kneels, crawls, or crouches; talks or hears. Occasionally sits; climbs or balances. Frequently lifts up to 25 pounds and occasionally lifts up to 50 pounds.

Environment/Noise:

Occasionally works in outdoor weather conditions. Noise level is moderate.

Certificates/Licenses:

ServSafe Arizona Food Safety and Sanitation Training ServSafe Alcohol Awareness Training.

Job Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Preferences:   

Ability to read and speak English may be required in order to perform the duties of the job (e.g. the associates may be required to communicate with English speaking customers or co-workers, the manuals for the equipment the associates may use are in English). Meets state age requirements for handling alcoholic beverages. Knowledge of POS system.

This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that an associate in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.