Grand Café Busser/Runner

• Promptly welcome all guests and ensure they receive responsive, professional, and gracious service always. Anticipate the guests’ needs and respond appropriately with a sense of urgency to maintain a productive working relationship with all guests and deliver necessary items.
• Effectively communicate with management, chefs, and culinary staff to fulfill and address any issues or needs requested by guests and other team members.
• Clear tables after guests leave, promptly clean tabletops/seating area, thoroughly clean the booths and chairs, and take tableware to the dish room.
• Assist servers in pre-bus and busing tables. Pre-bussing includes clearing, wiping tabletops, chairs & booths, and setting tables.
• Help set up to-go/pick up area and help deliver to-go orders to host desk to be picked up by guests.
• Refill beverages as necessary.
• Set and reset tables and side stations before, during and after service periods.
• Deliver food orders to tables.
• Ensure all machines are cleaned properly.
• Fold/roll napkins when needed and keep silverware polished.
• Reset tables in a timely and efficient manner.
• Participate in Pre-Shift meetings and learn new menu items.
• Assist the kitchen in expediting the service process to maintain the flow of service.
• Maintain general cleanliness in dining room during service periods.
• Responsible for taking, compiling and delivering and putting away warehouse orders.
• Any other duties as assigned within the scope of this position.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Knowledge of and ability to identify menu products.
• Must be able to work in a team environment.
• Ability to operate a glassware washing machine and to re-fill ice bins and beer bins, utilizing ice machines.
• Knowledge of the dish room, including separating silverware, dishes & glassware appropriately
• Candidate must be able to communicate in English, both in written and oral form.
• Ability of simple reading, math, writing and task completion skills is required.
• Must have the following skills: compiling, coordination, following instructions, influencing others, memorization, problem solving, independent judgment, and decision making.
• Flexible working all shifts including holidays, nights, and weekend hours as business needs dictate.
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Any combination of education, training, or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is constantly standing, walking, and frequently reaching overhead, bending over, kneeling, and balancing during the duration of their shift.
• Must be able to push/pull and lift/carry 50lbs or less frequently.
• The team member will constantly have repetitive use of both hands and occasional light and firm/strong grasping motions.
• Constant use of vision abilities is required including distance, depth perception, field of vision, and color vision.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Work performed indoors, alone and frequently with and around others. Team Member will perform work face-to-face including verbal contact with others on extended shifts around computer equipment and other mechanical devices.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Team Member may be exposed to slippery surfaces, fumes/odor and secondhand smoke.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.