Royal Berkshire Food

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In a Nutshell
We are actively seeking a **1 year**Food & Beverage Placement**. During a Food and Beverage rotation, you will move between all of our outlets within the Hotel, including Restaurant, the Bar and Conference & Banqueting. In each area youwill be undertaking general food and beverage duties, below is a brief explanation on each area and what you can expect to experience.

**Package Description**
**And now for the good stuff
Hospitality is all about looking after people and we are committed to our people.We work hard to ensure you can enjoy your job and are well rewarded.As well as excellent training, development and progression opportunities, other benefits include:

- 29 days holiday (increasing with length of service)
- 50% Discount on food and beverage across all Exclusive properties
- Really big discounts of room nights across all Exclusive properties
- PERKZ discount scheme & Online guides such as Exercise, Wellbeing, and Finance
- Meals on duty provided for free
- Recognition and rewards scheme
- Access to our learning platform including great training and development programs
- Free gym access + where available dedicated classes
- BCorp member and commitment to improving our People, Product and Planet
- Free downloads to newspapers, magazines and books
- Cycle to work scheme

**Main Responsibilities**
**Lots to do but lots of fun
**_Bar and Restaurant _**

This department consists of FORK, providing a relaxing environment for breakfast & dinner and The Polo Bar Lounge and our outside terrace for a beautiful afternoon tea.

Your time in the Restaurant, Bar Lounge and Terrace will see you work in both of these key areas, developing high levels of product knowledge in the bar, and exceptional service standards.

**_Conference & Banqueting_**

The C&B department is home to our 11 meeting rooms, used for a variety of spectacularevents from weddings to conferences, baby showers to corporate meetings and internal meetings to full exclusive use events. You will get experience of the full range ofevents, including how to set up and prepare for them, as well as working them. There will be elements of food and beverage service for the banquet side of the department including plated service, snake service, champagne and canapé receptions. For the conferenceside of the business there will be coffee stations, break out food and buffets, setting up of audio visual equipment and so on.

**_Additional Exposure_**

As placement students you will also have the opportunity to attend a Head of Department meeting, where you will sit with the managers of the property and be involved in business discussions and decisions.

We also provide the opportunity to spend some time cross training in the specialisms of Accounts, Human Resources and Sales should this be of interest.

**Are you right for us?
Our successful Food & Beverage Placement student will be/ have;
- A passion for pleasing to ensure our guests has a happy experience.
- Previous experience as a Food and Beverage Assistant / Waiter/ess (preferable but not essential)
- An interest, and appreciation for Food & Beverage
- Confident communicator - important to liaise with your guests and your other team members.

**About The Company**
**Are we right for you?
We expect a lot but we’ll give a lot to get the right people. There are 4 main things we look for

- We want people with bags of character. We don’t want you to hide your personality when you’re at work, we want you to feel comfortable, to be who you are.
- We want people people. You’ve got to like being around others, smiling and chatting because you like people, not because someone told you to smile and chat.
- We need extra milers. So if you think the job description is all you have to do, then we’re not for you.
- You have to put your heart into it. When you tell a guest you’re happy to help, you have to mean it.