Weekend Breakfast Host/Housekeeping During The Week

Hotel housekeepers perform various functions to keep hotel rooms and its environment clean, attractive, and comfortable to guests.

The following is a job description shows major tasks, duties, and responsibilities:

• Answer immediately to request from guests, as well as from other departments
• Load cart with supplies such as linens and move it to the required area
• Enter guest rooms by adhering to proper procedures and ensure they are vacant
• Replace used amenities in guest rooms
• Provide clean linens and terry for dirty ones
• Fold terry, make beds, and ensure bathrooms are clean
• Take away, room service items, dirty linen, and trash
• Perform check on all room appliances to ensure they are in good working condition
• Adjust furniture, desk items, and appliances when necessary
• Dust furnishings and walls and remove marks from them
• Carry out floor care duties in hallway and guest rooms, and vacuum carpets
• Adhere to all safety, security, and company procedures and policies
• Provide immediate report of any safety hazards, injuries, maintenance problem, or accidents to the supervisor
• Ensure flammable materials are properly stored
• Keep uniform clean and make sure to appear professional always
• Keep proprietary information confidential
• Ensure company standards are followed in welcoming and acknowledging all guests
• Expect service needs of guests and provide them even before called upon to do so
• Provide assistance to guests with disabilities
• Genuinely appreciate and thank guests for their visit
• Apply professional language in communicating with guests and other people
• Provide support to team to achieve common goals
• Maintain quality standards and expectations
• Without assistance, carry, place, move, or lift objects weighing up to 25 pounds; with assistance for items beyond 25 pounds.

Requirements – Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities – for Hotel Housekeeper Role:

• Strong ability to pull and push work-related equipment, such as a loaded housekeeping cart over uneven and sloping surfaces
• Ability to bend, twist, stoop, and pull
• Ability to sit, stand, walk, or kneel for a long period of time
• Ability to manipulate, turn, and grasp objects of different sizes and weights
• Strong hand-eye coordination and motor skills
• Strong ability to follow verbal instructions
• Strong knowledge of cleaning supplies and procedures
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Possess high school diploma or its equivalent educational level
• Previous cleaning experience may be an advantage sometimes, but not generally required

Breakfast Hosts are valued members of the hospitality industry and help guests start each day in the best manner possible. Successful candidates for this position should have experience in the food service industry, serving experience, and the ability to follow food-handling guidelines to ensure that guests receive the best quality food and service possible. Having a food handlers’ permit is also advantageous.

A successful candidate for a Breakfast Host is someone who has impeccable people skills, who is attentive and is motivated. A Breakfast Host must also remain composed as they communicate with customers and address customers' questions and complaints promptly.

It is imperative that a Breakfast Host be able to work in a diverse, fast-paced environment and be able to communicate effectively with customers and staff to ensure that the customers’ needs are met. Lastly, a Breakfast Host should have a thorough knowledge and understanding of food offerings to be able to make recommendations to customers based on various dietary restrictions or personal preferences.

Breakfast Host Responsibilities Include:

• Preparing for, setting up, and disassembling the buffet
• Ensuring that the buffet remains stocked with sufficient amounts of food throughout service
• Interacting with guests by taking orders, responding to any questions or complaints, and clearing their eating area upon their departure
• Ensure that customers' needs are met in a timely manner so that they can leave the breakfast area by the end of the meal service
• Maintaining cleanliness standards throughout the Breakfast Area throughout the meal service. This includes sanitizing surfaces, sweeping and mopping floors, etc.

Breakfast Host Job Requirements:

• Minimum requirement of a high school diploma or equivalent with previous experience within the hospitality industry. Experience within a similar role is preferred
• Understanding of food safety and handling guidelines
• Must possess the physical ability to work in a demanding position that requires standing for long periods of time and being able to lift 50 pounds without assistance and to stand for long periods of time
• Ability to work with little supervision
• Ability to remain organized, multitask, and maintain a friendly disposition while communicating with staff and customers
• Ability to work weekends and holidays as needed

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From $10.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule

Shift:

• Morning shift

Weekly day range:

• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Housekeeping: 1 year (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Work Location: In person