Host – Livermore

For the Host position, you’ll need to be a five-star greeter and seater. We’re looking for outgoing, friendly individuals with great communication skills who can make an awesome first impression for Dust Bowl! You will also manage the efficient and timely seating of our guests and answer incoming phone calls.

Essential Job Functions – Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Warmly and graciously greet all guests immediately upon arrival.
• Professional phone presentation, attending to high volume phone calls and transfers to personnel, and making reservations.
• Accurate handling of cash and credit card payments for retail, take-out, to-go beer, and growler(s)/crowler(s).
• Accommodate special seating requests for guest(s) whenever possible.
• Seat guest(s) based on guest(s) preferences and balancing of customer flow in service stations per SOP training.
• When seating the guest, inform them of their server’s name. Inspect tables for proper presentation, arrangement, and completeness, informing and helping guest(s) with our QR ordering system.
• Spot sweep and check the floors, stock baskets, and bathroom cleaning rotations regularly during shift and various end-of-day cleaning duties.
• Relay messages to servers, bussers, kitchen, and Managers as needed.
• Happily, thank guests as they leave and invite them to return to Dust Bowl.
• When there is downtime, you will bus tables, run food/drinks, dry trays, roll silverware, etc.
• Side work, sweeping, cleaning windows, stock baskets, and bathrooms.
• Schedule all reservations using Resy.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Supervisory Responsibility

None.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

You will be required to walk, balance and stoop, kneel or crouch. You must always be able to lift and/or move to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move to 50 pounds.  You must be able to work consistently in a standing position for long periods of time of up to 8 hours.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
You will be part-time with flexibility in hours and shifts according to the operational business needs. Day, evening, and weekend work are required as job duties demand.

Work Atmosphere

This job operates in an otherwise professional, fast-paced restaurant environment.  Work is indoor/outdoor in varying weather conditions and temperatures.

Travel

This position requires 0% travel.

Required Education and Experience

No previous restaurant experience is required.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Maintain and have a Current Food Safety Certificate.

Maintain and have a Current RBS Alcohol Certificate.

Possess basic knowledge of dining room and service functions and procedures.

Ability to handle money and operate a POS (Point of Sale) system.

Complete Company Harassment Training

Compensation

$16.00 per hr. plus tips

Reports to

General Manager and Taproom Manager(s)

Classification

Nonexempt

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.