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Host / Hostess, HOTEL DUPONT

Job Category : Food & Beverage Requisition Number : HOSTH08066 Showing 1 location Job Details

Description

Job Summary

Greet and escort guests to tables in the restaurant, maintaining a courteous and efficient operation of the dining room to ensure guest satisfaction.

Summary of Essential Job Functions

Meet and greet guests as they arrive, offer choice of seating, then escort them to their table and present menu.

Read, maintain and make daily entries in the log book to coordinate communication between shifts and management.

Maintain proper set-up of dining room.

Receive records and make any necessary arrangements for reservations and special functions in the restaurant.

Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.

Perform any other job-related duties as assigned.

Abilities Required

Must have the ability to communicate in English. Self-starting personality with an even disposition. Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.

Can communicate well with guests. Must be willing to pitch-in and help co- workers with their job duties and be a team player.

Ability to comprehend guest requests, memos, reservations, promotional materials, event orders and similar written materials.

Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items. Ability to move throughout a crowded room to seat guests.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, customers and patrons.

Customer Satisfaction :

Our customers are what we are about. One of the keys to a positive guest experience is positive interaction with PM Hotel Group staff.

It is essential that you remain professional at all times, and that you treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances.

Every PM Hotel Group associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.

Work Habits :

In order to maintain a positive guest and associate experience, your work habits should always meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality and attendance.

You should be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and / or improve existing ones, have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job, and ask for help whenever you are not sure how to do something.

Safety & Security :

The safety and security of our guests and associates is of utmost importance to PM Hotel Group. Every PM Hotel Group associate should adhere to the hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.

NOTE :

This description excludes non-essential and marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of the fundamental job duties.

Furthermore, the specific examples in each section are not intended to be all-inclusive. Rather, they represent the typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully.

Other job-related duties may be assigned by the associates supervisor.

Furthermore, this description is subject to change, at the sole discretion of the Company, and in no way creates an employment contract, implied or otherwise;

each associate remains, at all times, an at will associate.

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Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Last updated : 2024-09-25