Host

About The Role
Job Location:
Regent Street (London)

Status:
Full Time, Part-Time, Semi-Time

Compensation:
Competitive

Position Summary:
The FOH Host is an important aspect in our guest's dining experience, as they have the first interaction with our guest(s). The host is responsible for not only welcoming all of our guest(s) in person, but as well as coordinating all reservation requests. While maintaining a positive, energetic, pleasant, and professional demeanor, the Host will ensure the restaurant/café is maximizing covers while prioritizing the guest's satisfaction.

Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:

• Engages and connects with guest(s), while always exceeding expectations.
• Remains up to date on all menu items, to best answer any guest(s) inquiries.
• Promptly greets and engages all guests, in a friendly and courteous manner, as they enter the café.
• Answers all phone calls in upbeat and professional manner, while answering any guest(s) inquiries.
• Accurately coordinates and maintains all reservations.
• Effectively communicates any noted guest's food allergies, special request(s) to the Serving and Management teams.
• Manages the organization of all menus, while effectively communicating any upkeep needs.
• Accompanies all guest(s) to their assigned tables or seating area.
• Provides a genuine and welcoming experience to any guest(s) waiting for their table(s).
• Maintains a safe, organized, clean and presentable Host's area by, but not limited to sweeping, cleaning or clearing any garbage from the immediate area. They will efficiently communicate any issues that need more involved cleaning efforts.
• Collect and communicate any guest(s) reactions, comments, or overall suggestions to the Management team.
• Welcome all exiting guests back to dine with us and thank them for their visit.

Special Projects/Tasks

• Assist with the planning and execution of any on/off-site events, including but not limited to pop-up events, private guest's events held outside of normal business hours.
• Assist in maintaining a safe and organized café, by completing any standard cleaning procedures commonly associated with a food & beverage outpost.

Requirements
Availability:

• Open & flexible availability, including but not limited to evenings, overnights, and weekends as well as Holidays.
• Availability to consistently work weekends, special projects, drops/releases or as the business' needs require.

Licenses/Certificates

• Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety certification or equivalent

Experience

• 1+ years in a Host position.
• 1+ years in the Food & Beverage industry.
• 1+ years in a customer facing role.
• Experience using Reservations platforms (i.e SevenRooms, Resy, Open Table)

Skills & Abilities

• Multi-tasking while maintaining an upbeat and professional demeanor
• Ability to lift and move 25lbs.
• Ability to perform standard tasks that are related to retail operations including but not limited to, bending, twisting, and climbing ladders/step stools.
• Ability to stand and walk for prolonged periods of time.

Who You Are
Professional Characteristics:

• Strong written and verbal communicator
• Team-Orientated
• Professional
• Guest/Customer focused
• Organized

Personal Characteristics

• Outgoing and upbeat
• Friendly
• Continuously positive

Who We Are
Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men's, women's and children's apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.

Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg's childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as
Sadelle's at Kith
restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.

The Kinnect Foundation, a non-profit established and operated by Kith, is a non-profit devoted to creating positive change through education, community and social impact.

All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a or email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering any work type other than full on-site, is fraudulent.