Host/Hostess
Huey's Restaurant
Host/Hostess
Huey's Restaurant
Posted 3 months ago
Full Time
Germantown, Tennessee
In Person
Smart Summary
Responsibilities
The Host/Hostess is responsible for greeting guests, managing wait times, and seating customers to ensure a positive dining experience. Additionally, they perform MOD duties including bussing tables, running food, and managing takeout orders.
Qualifications
You have strong organizational and people skills to ensure a positive guest experience from arrival to departure. You are able to perform various duties including greeting guests, managing wait times, bussing tables, running food, and handling takeout orders. A High School diploma or equivalent and the ability to stand for extended periods are required.
Must Have Skills for ATS
COVID protocols
Food Runner
Takeout orders
Order entry
Job Description
A hostess or host greets customers as they enter a restaurant, immediately seats them, or places them on a waiting list. They may also handle phone calls and customer queries about the restaurant and menu and assist various restaurant staff when necessary.
Company Overview
Huey's, locally owned and operated, has been a staple of the Memphis community for 50 years. We're known for our blues, brews, burgers, excellent customer service, community outreach, and family environment.
Job Summary
- MOD (Host/Hostess) responsibilities include greeting guests warmly upon arrival with eye contact, providing accurate wait times and escorting customers to the dining and bar areas. For this role, you should have solid organizational and people skills to make sure our guests have a positive dining experience from the moment they arrive till their departure. Administer COVID protocols when applicable.
- As MOD, duties include bussing tables, ensure quality control of the food, fill ice bins, maintain restaurant cleanliness. During down time the MOD will serve as a Food Runner, assisting the servers and their main duty is to deliver or "run" food to tables once a food order has been prepared by the cooks.
- At other times, MODs help as To-Go Attendants. They are 100% responsible for the takeout area and all take-out orders when working. Some of the duties are: answer phones with a “smile” and a proper greeting, making sure all orders are complete, including sauces or sides and making sure all orders have napkins and utensils.
Responsibilities
- Greeting customers as they walk into the restaurant
- Guiding them to their table
- Giving guests accurate wait time estimates and seating them in the waiting area
- Optimizing seating at different tables to ensure even workload for wait staff
- Assist servers and bartenders during downtime with bussing tables and running food
- Administer COVID-19 protocols (when applicable)
Qualifications
- High School Student or Graduate
- Ability to stand, walk, run, squat, or bend for the shift, up to 6 hours.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers.
- Use the computer program to enter orders.
- Good judgment.
Benefits/Perks
- Free Employee Meal when working
- 50% Discount on a meal when the off clock (restrictions apply)
- Medical Insurance (if applicable)
- Vision and Dental Insurance
- Term Life Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability
- 401-K (if applicable)
- Employee Assistance Program
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