Hiring Servers FOH Bar Position - Good To Eat Taiwanese + Sake bar

[WHY this job is special and you should apply]

Good To Eat Taiwanese Cuisine, we service craft small plates inspired by Taiwanese flavor sensibility for you to have a good time over here. Our guests coming down to us to enjoy intentionally-created food and beverages, and we are proud of our way of building a like-minded customer community. As a queer, womxn, and immigrant-led business, we care about our working culture a lot.

If your passion is restaurant (as we all do), want to find a place to work where everyday you can confidently serve intentionally-created food that you feel proud to stand behind. If you rather to serve a group of customers who are craft-minded and appreciate what we do. If you want work with a place where BOH and FOH truely work together as a team, and you want a place can grow your career and it's just another job. here is the opportunity for you. Don't look further -Very rare chance to join our high energy, passion-for-craft food indie restaurant team. This is a great place to grow your career .

[About the Restaurant]

Good To Eat Taiwanese cuisine, started as a popup and had a lot of followers, after transforming to a restaurant , we are listed as essential restaurant in east bay, on New York Time food critic column with full page, and selected as Bay area top 50 restaurant , we are a chef-driven, craft food small batch-made small plates restaurants and sake and beer bar.

We are hiring servers for our next wave of the new menu and new service model. we are opening to hire experienced servers for our up coming table services and food runners

[Hiring Servers] : Full Time. 4 days a week

Position opened by end of November

[Hiring position: Bar position FOH server]

Part of our FOH team, you will be the person to station at our beer bar - make and serve our drink to our guests, and perform customer service whenever it's needed , your responsibility including:

(1) Fulfill drinks - fulfill drink to customer's dining table based on orders

our drink is mainly beer, sake, and making tea and mixing soft drinks ,

occasionally some cocktail/mocktail but just occasionally

(2) When serving drinks, Explain to customers on our drink options, able to passionately introduce our drink offering and food pairing experiences (we will provide training)

(3) You need to work quick, we are very fast-paced :)

(4) Keep the bar nice and tidy including sending glasses to wash, ,and dry glasses as they come in

(5) Greet / interact customers approaching to the bar, help them or redirect them to the right server

(6) Take care bar seating customers as your section

(7) Supporting Floor server when possible: running food, bussing tables when there is extra time

an ideal candidates will have drink fulfillment experiences: either beer bar, or coffee shop barista. Experience in full-service restaurant is a plus.

[About you - our ideal candidate]

for this section we will write more for you to get a sense what we all like :)

- working hours : WED THU FRI SAT 4-10:15pm (ok to start two days only)

- love to work quick. when it's fast paced you feel exciting rather than feeling drained (We have a great team work with you together with high energy vibe!)

- have capability to run table service

- have experience fulfill drinks before

- have experience of Take orders, introduce food, able to share knowledge (we will train you) of the food and love to chat with customers on how we make the food and our effort to make it so delicious, just like when you share the food you cook for your guests

- we are daily menu change type of the establishment. have experienced to introduce intentionally made food and seasonal offering is a plus !

- no need to understand Taiwanese cuisine, but basic understand on Asian cuisine and Japanese cuisine will be a plus

- We value the ability of multi-tasking skill, ability of work fast, and having sense of urgency, and the proactive sense to catch customers' dining needs and provide the right hospitality: table service experienced is required.

- We thrive fast paced and professional working vibe

- you need to know how to take order, make suggestions based on the small plates type of the menu, how to assist customers with drinks, and buss table/turn table as needed

- 1 year Restaurant working experience REQUIRED. if no experience still want to apply, share with us why.

If you happen to have the following personalities you will most likely a really good fit:

- you already know you love the indie restaurant vibe rather than chain restaurants and you know exactly why

- you have multi-tasking type of the attention span and capabilities

- you love eating and love introduce food & beverage to people. You are curious on new flavors, new food, new cuisine. and always love to explore and discuss with friends

- When sometimes challenges happening, you choose to look at it in a positive way

Compensation:

- paid per shift or per hour . this position share tips . we are a pool tips house. BOH and FOH work tightly together.

- Hourly rate / or per shift rate will based on your experiences

- Staff meal, staff discount

- After tips the pay range from $28$32

We are a women-led, queer-owned and immigrant owned business. We are eager to keep cultivating our culinary depth and keep sharing amazing delicate asian flavor with fermentation forward approach and taiwanese flavor sensibility.

We are looking for like-minded and passionate servers to join us for our table service

If this sounds like something you like and you would love to join this journey with us , please reach out

if you want to get to know more about us, our website and IG are both good resources

@goodtoeatdumplings

https://www.wearegoodtoeat.com/join-our-team

Qualifications

Professional experience required - 1 year at least .

Authorized to work here. This is a English speaking working environment.

please note this is NOT an entry level position. Table service experience with a busy indie restaurant is ideal.

if not, and if you really like what we do and want to become one of us please anticipate you will need to learn a lot the basic service know-hows

will be ideal if you aware of the differences of indie restaurant , chef-driven type of the place, versus corporate or chain store service.

HOW To APPLY and INTERVIEW process

1. please reply this post , introduce yourself and attach your resume (no resume we won't contact)

OR

2. please go to our website to fill out the application form

after interview, we usually will schedule 13 paid stag/trail shift before making decision

looking forward to hear from you!

Interview start now, position available from November, and from January,