Barperson- Westminster

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**Job Title: Bar person**

**Location**: Central London

**Contract**: Full Time

**Salary**:
**TBC depending on experience**

**The Position:

- **We are looking for Barperson for our restaurant.

**MISSIONS**:
Assist the Bar Manager to plan, organize and direct all processes of the Bar operations to ensures the bar provides quality beverages in a clean and tidy workspace and deliver consistent service in line with the Standard Opening Procedures and achieves maximum revenue and profit in line with the budget and forecast.

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES**:

- Adhere to and support the Quality Standards.
- Assists the Head Bartender/Bar Manager in the best practice and continuously seeks to improve existing standards and procedures.
- Ensures financial performance of the operation by controlling all finance related documents, verifies correctness of invoices and guest checks
- Preparing bar mise en place as per opening and closing checklists
- Preparing alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages for bar and restaurant.
- Assessing bar customers’ needs and preferences and making recommendations
- Interacting with guests, taking orders and serving bar snacks and drinks
- Ensures suggestive selling to the guests
- Is up to date with latest drinks and cocktail fashion, mixes as per standard, controls and checks quality of ingredients, follows recipes
- Ensure adherence to cash handling and reconciliation procedures in accordance with company policy.
- Supervises table/bar management, side station management as per standard, directs bar attendants as per requirement
- Follows all hygiene requirements ISO, monitors cleanliness in his work area and ensures cleaning of those areas as per standards
- Remains in his or her area, approachable to both guest, employees and peers during operations
- Works as a team, liaises and coordinates with team, peers and other managers of the Food and Beverage division
- Any other duties as assigned

**Skills, Experience & Educational Requirements**
- Previous experience in a similar job role (Bartender). WSET Level 2 or similar bar courses
- Worked in in similar position for at least 2 years on the same venue/brand, needs to have experience in ALC restaurants, also high-volume Bar/Restaurants over 200 guests per venue (if applicable).
- International experience
- Outgoing, confident, good communication skills with the right attitude, who is flexible and a great team player who works well under pressure analytical thinking, sincere and dependable
- Leads by example and team player
- Dynamic, energetic, creative individual with a positive “can do” attitude.
- Ability to work calmly and effectively under pressure.
- Self-motivated, committed, and passionate about F&B
- Multi-tasking capability without compromising on quality.
- Excellent communication skills and good written business English
- Good all-round business admin skills
- Good acumen on new worldwide market trends
- Experience in managing beverage costs and inventory control
- Languages: English, French (Italian, German or Spanish : optional)

**The Westminster Works Pledge**

**This employer has signed the Westminster Works Pledge, committing to the following**:
**REWARD**
We will provide good levels of pay, recognising the importance of each individual to the team, never paying below the London Living Wage
We will provide a range of additional benefits, beyond pay, to reward in ways that are important for each individual
We will be flexible in our working patterns and practices, striving to agree shifts that work for you and for us, giving us both more certainty

**RESPECT**
We will champion diversity and promote inclusion in our teams, and everything we do
We will adapt our practice to respect and respond to diverse needs and ensure that everyone feels included
We will always listen, respect and respond to issues and ideas raised by all our team members at any level

**PROGRESSION**
We will help you chose how to progress, identify opportunities, and get you on the right path
We will support your progression through training, learning new skills, and promotion
We will celebrate your successes with rewards and recognition for great team performance and personal achievement