Cafe Assistant

**Weekend Café Assistant**

**Lion Quays Resort, Oswestry**

**Up to £10.42, NLW**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Café Assistant (F&B) to join our F&B Team. The successful applicant will assist in providing a warm, friendly and efficient food and beverage service to our guests, ensuring exceptional service standards are delivered and maintained at all times in line with our guest expectations, whilst maintaining maximum revenue and guest expectations.

**Roles and Responsibilities **for a Café Assistant:

- Assist in creating a warm and welcoming environment for our guests
- Serving customers
- Ensure Food and Beverage departments are ready for service and ensure the areas are left ready for the next shift
- Take food and beverage orders and ensure that orders are communicated to the kitchen and bar promptly and accurately
- Ensure an efficient and safe delivery of all food and beverage orders in line with guest expectations ensuring an exceptional level of service is maintained at all times
- Set up, clear and promptly tables after
- Maintain a good standard of food safety, allergen and hygiene
- Ensure the food and beverage areas are clean and well presented at all times and assist with cleaning and housekeeping duties as required
- Deal with guest comments in a friendly and efficient manner, ensuring guest satisfaction and expectation at all times and ensure that any guest complaints and positive comments are reported to management
- Ensure all cash, charge, float and till procedures are carried out in line with agreed procedures
- Cleaning and maintaining equipment, glassware, crockery and cutlery
- Ensure that all front of house and guest areas are well maintained at all times
- Maintain high standard of personal appearance and hygiene including wearing and maintaining a clean uniform at all times.

This job description is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to carry out other reasonable tasks as specified by their manager.

**Key Skills **for a Café Assistant:

- Barista skills desirable
- Confident and approachable
- Good team work and can work well alone
- Good time keeping and attendance
- Calm under pressure during busy periods
- Excellent selling and customer service skills
- Can use own initiative and problem solve
- Resilience and calm attitude when dealing with face to face complaints

**All staff Key Performance Measures**

Our values underpin everything we do here at LQ Resorts and staff should ensure that these are at the fore front of what they do, day to day.
- To focus on the guest experience at all times and continually strive to delight time after time
- To see each guest as part of a long-term relationship not a onetime event
- To create a team that is enthusiastic, consistent and committed in the workplace that encourages an open honest and supportive culture, by working together to create excellence.
- To create an organisation with high integrity, that recognises potential and success, that both guests and employees want to be part of and associated with
- To encourage our team to contribute to excellent working conditions for all
- To gain a reputation for delivering financial performance and being consumed and enthralled about business.

**Benefits**

LQ Resorts will offer you a fantastic working environment with plenty of opportunity to make a difference each day. In addition, you will receive:

- Discounts across the resort, including family and friends
- Free onsite parking
- Progression and career development opportunities.
- Pension Scheme
- Free staff meals
- Free gym membership
- Share of Resort Service Charges on a monthly basis
- Access to wellness programmes
- Extra days holiday after 2 years

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Zero hours contract

**Salary**: Up to £10.42 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Day range:

- Weekends only

Physical setting:

- Café
- Hotel

Shift:

- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Oswestry, SY11 3EN: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
- Barista: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person