Job Details
**Food Runner**
**Department:** Food + Beverage
**Reports to:** Food + Beverage Leadership
**Status:** Non-Exempt
Share this Career Posting: **Job Summary:**
Food Runners will be responsible for ensuring exceptional service to all guests that is consistent and continually in accordance with the Epicurean Hotel service standards and standards of Mainsail Lodging & Development.
**Essential Functions**
* Thorough knowledge steps of service and guest interaction.
* Serves guests in an efficient courteous manner following the proper steps of service
* Responsible for setting tables, serving food orders and removing used plate ware and utensils
* Food running when applicable, ability to carry plates that may be warm or hot
* Ability to handle station, or when situations arise, ability to let manager/supervisor know ahead of time so as not to affect the guest experience
* Polish glass ware, utensils, organize clean and soiled linen
* Perform other duties as management requests to service our guests
* Follow Covid-19 guidelines
**Qualification Standards**
**Education & Experience**
* High School diploma or higher
* Previous hospitality experience required
* Excellent customer service skills
* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
* Ability to use technology e.g. tablets, iPads
**Physical Demands**
* Ability to lift 20 pounds or more
* Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time
* Ability to communicate clearly
* Corrected vision to normal range
* Ability to work long hours as needed
* Ability to navigate steps to upstairs event space as well as upstairs deck
**Mental Demands**
* Make sound judgments quickly
* Work on multiple tasks, making appropriate progress towards deadlines
* Able to work independently, take direction, and provide direction to others
* Manage differing personalities within the office, the hotel, and the community
* Maintain the highest degree of confidentiality
* Ability to work effectively in stressful, high pressure situations
* Ability to effectively handle challenges in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying, and solving problems as necessary
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