Server - YOT Bar & Kitchen - Thompson Hospitality Corporation
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
About the Job
Join the exceptional dining experience at YOT Bar & Kitchen, where we pride ourselves on not just serving food, but creating unforgettable dining experiences. As a Server, you will play a crucial role in providing outstanding service to our guests, ensuring they have a memorable time at our breathtaking waterfront location within the Lauderdale Marine Center. Your warm hospitality, attention to detail, and passion for delivering top-notch service will contribute to making YOT Bar & Kitchen a true dining destination. If you have a flair for hospitality and want to be part of a team that brings dining to new heights, we invite you to join YOT's crew!
Competitive Benefits:
- Health/Dental/Vision coverage
- Paid Time Off
- 401(k) with company match
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Referral Program
- Pet Insurance
- Discounts: Hotels, Travel, Tickets, Restaurants
- Eligibility for discounted meal plan at HBCU client locations
Responsibilities:
- Provide exceptional service to guests, delivering a friendly and attentive dining experience.
- Take orders, answer questions, and make menu recommendations, ensuring guest satisfaction.
- Serve food and beverages promptly and accurately, following quality and presentation standards.
- Handle guest inquiries and concerns, resolving issues promptly and professionally.
- Must be able to speak clearly and understand basic English to facilitate the communication process.
- Ability to learn menu items and service procedures.
- Ability to take direction and to work in a team environment.
- Ability to work calmly and effectively under pressure.
- Ability to learn and follow processes.
- This position will spend 100% of the time standing and walking
Who We Are:
YOT Bar & Kitchen, led by Proprietor Mike Linder, is a celebrated waterfront dining experience situated within the Lauderdale Marine Center. With nearly three decades of experience as a restaurateur, Mike's talent for creating exceptional dining experiences is evident at YOT. From sky to sea, his impressive background includes operating Jet Runway Café and Silver Lining Inflight Catering. YOT not only offers remarkable dining but also yacht provisioning and event production, elevating the experience even further. As a Server at YOT Bar & Kitchen, you'll be part of a team dedicated to providing guests with the finest hospitality and breathtaking waterfront views.
Thompson Hospitality is the nation’s largest minority-owned food and facilities management company. Our services include hospitality, full dining and quick service restaurants, campus dining, diversity consultation, facility operations and maintenance management. We are a family-run organization with more than twenty-five years providing services built on our core mission to provide a positive experience to every relationship we are involved in: one guest, one client, one team member at a time. As a fast growing company, we have a growth plan to more than double in size over the next three years. We are looking for team members who are interested in developing their careers to the next level while joining our team of over 4,000 employees, serving clients in over 40 states to include more than 1.9 million guests each year. Thompson Hospitality focuses on three core areas in everything we do:
- Purpose
- Give back to our communities
- Celebrate diversity
- People
- Do the right thing
- Treat people the way you want to be treated
- Always do your best
- Be accountable for our actions
- Performance
- Serve the highest quality food
- Provide world-class service
- Maintain flexibility to better serve our clients
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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