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SalaryGraduate Hotels® is seeking a Bar Managerto join Graduate Richmondand its brilliant team of hospitality enthusiasts.
Graduate Hotels creates authentic, spirited spaces that connect travelers, students and locals alike. Through thoughtfully curated design, creative F&B and community-focused events, we create hotels worthy of their communities.
We are a diverse team of experience makers and storytellers. As a Graduate Hotels team member, you are the local insider shaping guest experiences. Our goal is to make every guest feel like a local even if it's their first time in town. In order to help you deliver on that goal, we encourage our team members to embody the same mindset as our guests through Graduate experiences and encouraged community exploration.
Graduate Hotels is proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified™, proving that our associates feel our commitment to cultivate a culture of inspirational and supportive leadership.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manages, trains, monitors and coaches bar staff
- Directs and assigns bar employees as needed to ensure all aspects of service meet operational standards
- Performs bar opening and/or closing duties
- Prepares employee work schedules; monitors and makes appropriate adjustments to staffing levels
- Monitors and maintains restaurant inventory levels. Places orders for supplies within cost control procedures
- Completes and maintains bar employee records / payroll
- Reinforces a customer service mentality and ensures all employees are focused on serving the guest at all times
- Immediately and respectfully resolves guest requests
- Interview and hire bar crew to achieve proper staffing levels
- Prepare all necessary operational reports.
- Develop appropriate action plans to resolve unfavorable financial and/or sales trends
- Develop and implement a marketing plan
- Monitors all beverage costing and pricing to ensure beverage margins fall within company policy
- Monitors beverage COGS on a regular basis to ensure beverage profitability
- Any other duties as assigned
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- High School Diploma/GED, post-high school education preferred
- Minimum of 2 years of restaurant /bar management experience, experience running shifts without supervision
- Certification in bartending preferred
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of alcohol serving practices and standards
- Knowledge of federal and state labor laws as well as local health and sanitation laws and regulations
- Leadership and supervisory practices and skills; effective verbal and written communication skills
- Team player
- Ability to exceed expectations of guests
- Problem solving, decision-making and conflict-resolution skills
About Graduate Hotels®
Graduate Hotels is a hand-crafted collection of hotels that reside in dynamic university-anchored towns across the country. Each hotel pays homage to the heritage of its unique town through cultural nods to the local community. Launched in 2014, there are 35 hotels across the U.S. and U.K. Graduate Hotels is owned by Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners, a vertically integrated real estate developer, owner and operator. For more information on Graduate Hotels, please visit www.graduatehotels.com.
- Graduate Hotels is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Compensation: $60,000-70,000 annually
