Server Hiring Event

Position Summary:

The Server serves food and beverages to customers in a friendly, efficient, and professional manner and ensures a positive experience for all customers. Each Server is responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of the Gibsons Restaurant Group’s philosophy, which is based upon four distinct core beliefs: Hospitality, Quality, Family and Value.

Ambassador of GRG and TFG Culture:

Seek out opportunities to communicate ThinkFoodGroup and Gibsons Restaurant Group’s core values to team members, customers, vendors and community in a clear and positive manner. Lead by example. Demonstrate ownership, accountability, and initiative in daily tasks by anticipating business needs and proactively addressing issues. Readily adjust to circumstances and manage change effectively by finding ways to accommodate team and guests by always ‘making it happen’, without sacrificing quality. Create a positive work environment by demonstrating no tolerance for negative behaviors. Welcome new ideas and seek feedback from team by asking questions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve customers as part of a team by anticipating their needs, initiating conversation, offering assistance and advice and remembering that “the customer is always right”!
• Perform dining room set-up, running side work and closing duties.
• Have extensive knowledge of the restaurant’s menu and wine list, including daily specials.
• Check identification to ensure customers meet minimum age requirements for consuming alcoholic beverages.
• Participate in table and dining room clean up.
• Compute customer checks, operate the POS system and accept payments.
• Accurately report tips for each shift.
• Maintain dining room safety and sanitation standards.
• Be aware of potential hazards, which could cause, but are not limited to, slipping, tripping, falling or burns.
• Arrive for each shift on time and in full uniform.
• Attend all pre-shift meetings ready to “listen and learn” and share ideas.
• Avoid leaving work area during peak periods.
• Take breaks only when approved by the General Manager or Manager.
• Keep a clean and professional appearance at all times.
• Must pass general information and departmental tests.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or GED preferred and six months to one year experience serving in a restaurant preferred; or a combination of education and experience.

Skills:

Ability to effectively communicate verbally with customers and other staff in fast-paced environment. Ability to do basic math. Ability to follow instructions and procedures. Must be of legal age to serve alcohol. Must have strong customer service skills and be able to maintain poise and positive personality when under pressure.

How to attend

Street parking and parking garages avaialble near venue. Public transit/Uber suggested.

What to prepare

• Complete application online prior to attending

Preferred dress code

Business casual (dress pants/skirt, button down/blouse, optional tie)

About Bazaar Meat Chicago

José Andrés’ ThinkFoodGroup, in partnership with Chicago’s Gibsons Restaurant Group, brings to life Bazaar Meat, Bar Mar, & Café by the River in the new Bank of America Tower at 110 N. Wacker. This joint venture represents an unprecedented pairing of Gibsons Restaurant Group’s Lombardo family with the two-Michelin star Chef Andrés, combining the culinary ingenuity of his ThinkFoodGroup with the operational expertise of the Gibsons team. TFG and GRG are collaborating to bring diners an unmatched level of hospitality and an authentic culinary experience.

Bazaar Meat is a wild and wonderful celebration of the carnivorous, in all its forms. Guests at Bazaar Meat are invited to begin their evening with cocktails at Bar Mar and then progress upstairs to the extraordinary dining room, which takes open kitchens to the next level —from the dramatic fire kitchen with wood grills and rotisseries to the raw bars for ceviches, carpaccios and tartares.

Bar Mar is the ultimate gathering place to enjoy a drink and some light fare, whether as a start to the Bazaar Meat dining adventure or on its own as the perfect way to begin or end an evening. Cocktails here are pure wizardry, equal parts dazzling and delicious.

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