Multi Venue Bartender - Full Time - Harrah's Gulf Coast

Essential Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude the following; other duties may be assigned as necessary. To perform this job successfully and individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Job Functions:

• Greets and welcomes all guests in a pleasant and professional manner.
• Prepares and stocks supplies and items necessary for guest consumption.
• Complete daily weekly monthly check list.
• Prepares and pours all types of drinks for customers and cocktail servers upon request.
• Responsible for stocking bar and maintaining par levels
• Responsible for serving food to bar patrons
• Provides entertainment for guests through entertainment pouring.
• Provides to customers property information on current events promotions and attractions.
• Processes all cash transactions by accepting money and making necessary change accurately and presents customer with bar receipt.
• Meets the attendance guidelines of the job and adheres to departmental and company policies.
• Cleans bar area including bar tops sinks glasses refrigerators and other bar appliance.
• Other duties as assigned by managers/supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Two years previous experience as a bartender is required.
• High school degree or equivalent is preferred.
• Must have dexterity and capability to learn entertainment pouring.
• Must be able to initiate and engage in conversation in a professional and friendly manner.
• Must possess excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Must be 21 years of age.
• Must be able to work any day any shift.
• Must be able to get along well with co-workers and work as a team.
• Must be willing to participate in on-going training in the beverage field.
• Must have knowledge of current property events promotions and attractions.
• Must adhere to uniform requirements

Physical Mental & Environmental Demands:

• Must be able to work in a smoke filled and noisy environment and maneuver through assigned area during entire shift.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
• Must be able to lift up to 75 pounds and manually push up to 650 pounds.
• Must be able to stoop bend and reach.
• Must be able to use hand motion when preparing and pouring all types of drinks for customers and cocktail servers.
• Must be able to use hand motion when cleaning and wiping bar counter.
• Must be able to bend pull and carry bar stock to refrigerators and cabinets.
• Responds to visual and aural cues.
• Must be able to complete required paperwork for cash transactions.
• Must be able to operate a variety of equipment.
• Must be able to simultaneously handle the demands of many customers.
• Must present a pleasant and professional appearance that customers will find appealing and easy to approach in order to initiate and engage in conversation.
• Must be able to tolerate areas containing second hand smoke high noise levels. Bright lights and dust
• Must be able to listen and respond to visual and aural cues.
• Must be able to read write speak and understand English.
• Must be able to operate: cash register micros two to six wheel carts juice soda and liquor guns cutting boards coffee and frozen drink machines ice machine shot glasses mixes pourers blenders beer kegs/soda/wine/juice hook-ups and knives.

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities skills duties requirements efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other/different tasks to be performed when circumstances change. (e.g. emergencies change in personnel workload rush jobs or technical developments).

Harrahs reserves the right to make changes to this job description whenever necessary.