About the Role
The Dunfield Retirement Residence, a luxurious community in Toronto, seeks a Server to provide exceptional dining service to residents and guests. This role is integral to enriching residents' lives in a dynamic, high-end setting, requiring a team player dedicated to a positive and respectful atmosphere.
Responsibilities
- Set and clean tables, serving counters, and dining area according to event and service standards
- Take orders, including modifications, answer inquiries, and communicate orders to the kitchen
- Serve food and beverage to residents and guests
- Know all residents’ dietary requirements and preferences
- Understand and follow orders to serve food correctly and according to specified modifications
- Provide high-level dining services to residents according to company standards
- Clean table bases, chairs, and vacuum dining room floor
- Practice and maintain established standards for cleanliness and sanitation required by the Health Department
- Promote and maintain positive communication and relationships among staff, residents, and their guests
- Check in with guests to ensure satisfaction with each food course and/or beverages
- Pick up trays and clean tables as needed to ensure a clean dining area
- Establish and maintain an atmosphere conducive to pleasant dining by creating an environment which maintains the enjoyment, self-respect, dignity, and physical safety of each resident
Requirements
- 2 years of fine dining floor experience
- Smart serve certification
- Excellent customer service skills
- Availability to work weekends and flexible shifts, including evenings
- Previous working experience with seniors an asset
- Fluency in spoken English and ability to read and write in basic English
- Ability to perform physical tasks: carrying or lifting items up to 50 pounds, moving about the restaurant, handling food objects, plates, trays, glasses, considerable bending, stooping, and kneeling
Skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Team player
Location
- Toronto
Experience Level
- 2 years of fine dining floor experience
- Previous working experience with seniors an asset
Education Level
- Smart serve certification
Salary/Compensations
- $19.10 CAD per hour + discretionary bonus eligibility
About the Company
- The Dunfield Retirement Residence is a luxurious community in Toronto committed to residents’ care, happiness, and well-being.
- The Dunfield is Certified™ by Great Place To Work®, recognized globally for outstanding employee experience.
- The organization is committed to creating a workplace where team members are focused and fulfilled.
- The company empowers team members to make a difference through core values: customer obsession, innovation, operational excellence, and a commitment to long-term thinking.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to diversity and inclusion in all locations and hiring practices.
- Believes in hiring the best talent whose skills and abilities contribute to organizational success and reflect the communities served.
- Welcomes applications from a wide range of qualified candidates, including people with disabilities.
- Provides assistance or accommodation throughout the application process upon request.
- May use AI-based tools to assist in screening and assessing applicants, analyzing information in resumes and applications to identify aligned candidates, without replacing human decision-making.
