About the Role
The Loren Hotel is seeking a Nido Server to provide luxury service, prepare and serve drinks, and ensure guest satisfaction according to The Loren standards of hospitality. This role involves maintaining cleanliness, managing guest checks, and responding to inquiries while embodying the hotel's commitment to elegance and flair.
Responsibilities
- Greets and takes food and drink orders from guests, serving orders and accommodating special needs/requests.
- Remains attentive to customers, adhering to or exceeding service standards.
- Completes restocking and cleaning duties by performing opening and closing side work.
- Memorizes menu items, recipes, and daily specials to answer questions and make recommendations.
- Maintains cleanliness standards on the pool deck, wait station, and kitchen service area.
- Controls allocated guest checks by following established check-use procedures.
- Receives proper payment from guests and ensures accuracy of guest checks and payment methods.
- Attends all pre-meal and departmental meetings.
- Responds to customer inquiries and comments in person and on the phone.
- Presents a clean and professional appearance at all times.
- Maintains a friendly, cheerful, and courteous demeanor at all times.
- Performs other duties as assigned, requested, or deemed necessary by leadership.
Requirements
- High school or equivalent education.
- TABC Certification.
- Food Handler Certification.
- 1+ year of restaurant service experience.
- Hotel luxury experience preferred.
- Basic knowledge of customer service principles, food server functions, and restaurant/kitchen operations.
- Knowledge of standard cash-handling procedures.
- Fluent in oral and written English.
- Vision ability to clearly see detailed guest checks, computer printouts, written instructions, and observe the entire restaurant in dimly lit conditions.
- Manual coordination to punch buttons, grasp items, and balance/carry trays.
- Highly organized and able to pay attention to minute written and verbal details, especially when performing multiple tasks.
- Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to use tact and understanding when dealing with customer service problems, including stressful situations.
- Physically capable of prolonged standing, walking, lifting, and carrying up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, handle, and finger items.
- Full range of mobility and ability to travel up to 300 feet throughout the shift.
- Continuous standing during preparation and service hours.
- Moderate hearing to hear customers, supervisors, and communicate with staff.
- Excellent vision to see that product is prepared appropriately.
- Moderate comprehension and literacy to read records and special requests.
- Ability to pay attention to sound and sight details in crowded and noisy situations.
- Works in an inside/outside environment, predominantly indoors.
Skills
- Customer service
- Food server function
- Restaurant operations
- Kitchen operations
- Cash handling
- English fluency (oral and written)
- Attention to detail
- Organization
- Multitasking
- Communication (verbal and written)
- Tact and understanding
- TABC Certification
- Food Handler Certification
Location
- AUSTIN, TX 78704
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part time
Experience Level
- 1+ year restaurant service experience
- Hotel luxury experience preferred
Education Level
- High school or equivalent
- TABC Certification
- Food Handler Certification
Benefits
- Participation in 401(k) with company match of up to 4%
- Medical with 0 deductible/0 co-pay options
- Dental
- Vision
- FSA
- STD
- LTD
- Life and AD&D
- Hospital Indemnity
- Paid PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Complimentary Employee Meal
- Complimentary Bus Passes
- 50% off Dining in Nido
- Recognition Programs, Incentives and Celebrations
About the Company
- At the cornerstone of Ladybird Lake and the Austin Skyline, the internationally recognized best in class Luxury Hotel Group, The Loren Hotel will bring a level of understated luxury and sophistication to Austin.
- With its unparalleled views of Lady Bird Lake and the Austin skyline, The Loren invites discerning residents and guests to experience the ultimate in understated luxury and curated Austin culture.
- Our modern hotel rooms, impeccable service, and exclusive amenities offer the perfect complement to our indoor-outdoor environment, uniquely set within Austin’s most beloved green space.
- We are Uncompromising by Nature We are here for those who question the ordinary. Who shun the mundane, the dull and the blunt. The risk-takers, the tree-shakers, the trail-makers. Those who believe in more, in further, and better. Who won’t settle for second, or for “good enough?” or “nearly there?” Who will get to their feet and not be shaken by doubters. Not afraid to be one of the curious minds. Who will talk of the world with elegance and charm. Knowing of its beauty, its delicate place. Yet embrace those things that bring us on. Art, food, wine, and song. Find us, united by a love for life. Its zest, its zing… its unpredictable turns. Join our commitment, our passion, and flair. Free spirits with soul.
