Food Runner

Job description

Job Summary Overview

The Food Runner is primarily responsible for delivering food orders from the kitchen to members’ tables rapidly and accurately. Maintain the cleanliness of the expo line, organization of order tickets, and communicate effectively with BOH team. The Food Runner will also be responsible for the initial expediting of carryout.

Job Knowledge, Core Competencies and Expectations

• Ability to develop and maintain awareness of occupational hazards and safety precautions; skilled in following safety practices and recognizing hazards.
• Follows all club guidelines pertaining to table setting, order taking and sequence of service. Knows and is able to communicate the menu items and daily specials.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform required role during emergency situations.

Job Summary:(Essential Functions)

Ensures prompt and polite service to the members and guests. Serves as the liaison between the kitchen and servers. Carries food trays to appropriate tables and serves food to guests. Responsible for preparing service stations, clearing and resetting tables, removing all trays from the dining/banquet rooms and cleaning and closing service stations. Additionally, may be asked to set and clean dining room tables before, during and after meal service; assist food servers with miscellaneous tasks.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Job Tasks/Duties:

• Assists Dining Room Manager and other employees in assuring that the club’s policies and procedures for serving alcoholic beverages are consistently followed.
• Assists in carrying food trays to tables.
• Assists Servers and Server Assistants in the dining room with clearing soiled dishes, filling waters and setting the dining room.
• Assists Servers in their set-up, service and clean-up tasks.
• Attends pre-service training (line-up meeting).
• Breaks down and cleans service stations in the kitchen at the end of the shift.
• Carefully matches all food items to correct orders.
• Carries food trays to tables using the correct seat positions on the ticket.
• Cleans and stores child high chairs and booster seats.
• Cleans dining room areas.
• Cleans-up spills, broken service ware and attends to similar problems during service with minimal disruption to diners.
• Collects soiled linen from dining room; transfers to linen pick-up area.
• Dusts chairs before and after meals.
• Ensures all service stations in the kitchen are stocked and ready for service.
• Ensures plated hot food leaves the kitchen quickly.
• Ensures that all items in to go orders are correctly assembled and labels them by stapling the ticket to the bag.
• Ensures that all storerooms and equipment storage areas are orderly and clean.
• Ensures that bread, soup and other food products are available.
• Folds napkins and bread basket linens.
• Inspects equipment for defects, cleanliness or any maintenance that needs to be completed and reported to supervisor.
• Keeps ice bins and buckets filled.
• Maintains cleanliness of service stations in kitchen while ensuring that the kitchen is free from clutter and that the kitchen floor is a clean and safe work area.
• May assist banquet personnel in setting-up, serving and cleaning up after banquet functions.
• Moves tables and chairs as needed for the next member and guest diners.
• Removes soiled dishes from table; brings to dish-washing area.
• Removes soiled linen and replaces with clean linen.
• Reports complaints to manager on duty when received.
• Re-sets tables at end of shift for the next meal period.
• Retrieves and returns function linens to proper locations.
• Sets tables with silverware, glassware and other items.
• Sets up indoor meeting and outdoor banquet function areas with the appropriate equipment and materials, including tables, chairs, glasses, china and any other items requested.
• Stocks servers’ station with supplies.
• Takes packaged take-out orders to reception stand for member pick-up.
• Wipes up spills or drips on the rims of dishes and ensures the consistency of plate presentation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and/or Experience:

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of one-year work experience in a fine dining environment.

Licenses and Special Requirements

• Food handler’s permit.
• Alcoholic beverage certification.
• Of legal age to serve alcoholic beverages.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Ability to push, pull or lift up to 50 pounds.
• Continuous repetitive motions.
• Required to stand for long periods and walk, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, bend, stretch, and twist or reach.
• Work in hot, humid and noisy environment.

Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

Salary: From $18.00 per hour

Physical setting:

• Upscale casual restaurant

Shift:

• Day shift
• Night shift

Weekly day range:

• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Larchmont, NY 10538: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)
• Night Shift (Required)

Work Location: In person