Banquet Attendant
Banquet Attendant Job Responsibilities:
- Serves patrons with food and beverages in a positive and friendly manner.
- Provides information to help food and beverage selections.
- Presents ordered choices in a prompt and efficient manner.
- Maintains dining ambiance with an enthusiastic attitude.
- Prepares room for dining by clothing tables and setting decorations, condiments, candles, napkins, service plates, and utensils.
- Protects establishment and patrons by adhering to sanitation, safety, and alcohol beverage control policies.
- Helps patrons select food and beverages by suggesting courses, explaining the chef’s specialties, identifying appropriate beverage pairings, and answering food preparation questions.
- Transmits orders to bar and kitchen by recording patrons’ choices and identifying patrons’ special dietary needs and special requests.
- Keeps kitchen staff informed by noting timing of meal progression.
- Serves orders by picking up and delivering patrons’ choices from bar and kitchen and delivering accompaniments and condiments from service bars.
- Responds to additional patron requirements by inquiring of needs and observing dining process.
- Maintains table setting by removing courses as completed, replenishing utensils, refilling water glasses, and being alert to patron spills or other special needs.
- Concludes dining experience by acknowledging choice of establishment and inviting patrons to return.
- Banquet Attendant Job Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED
- Previous experience as a server is preferred
- Needs to meet state minimum age requirements (if alcohol will be served)
- Courteous, professional, and attentive to guests of the events
- Must be able to meet the physical demands of the job: stand for long periods of time, climb stairs, carry heavy objects
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
- Work as part of a team to maintain guest satisfaction
- Follow instructions provided for each specific event
- Flexibility to work early mornings, late nights, weekends and holidays
- CPR training would be beneficial for this position