Food & Beverage Server

**Job Ref**:IDE1169

**Branch**:The Boat House Chichester

**Location**:The Boat House Chichester, Chichester

**Salary/Benefits**:Excellent tips

**Contract type**:Fixed Term

**Hours**:Full Time

**Hours per week**:20-45

**Posted date**:27/02/2025

**Closing date**:29/03/2025

The Boat House, is a waterside venue in Chichester Marina, which is popular for customers due to its stunning views and vibrant menu. We have extensive outside seating, a café and Lobster Hatch as well as a Restaurant for a more extensive food offering.

At the hearts of our local Berth Holders and regular visitors to the Marina, we are lucky to be extremely popular venue across the day, known for our friendly and informal service which our customers including their furry friends can enjoy with their fresh and homemade food.

What makes the Boat House special is our collaborative, positive and supportive teams, who make it their mission to know our customers personally whilst making lifelong friends with their colleagues.

**Fixed term,**we are prodominantly looking staff from the end of March to the end of September.

**Location and Travel,**There are regular buses that stop nearby at Chichester Marina from Chichester and Bognor bus routes. Out of these times we are looking for ways for staff that finish late to be given a safe lift to Chichester City center.

**We are looking to welcome Food Beverage servers who can do the following with our team and customers**:

- Give every customer a hearty, warm welcome and make them feel like selecting our venue is the best choice they could have made that day
- Use your knowledge to recommend dishes from our menu, our excellent chefs make it quite hard to choose and they need your help to know what is going to satisfy their taste buds the most
- Build rapport with our guests and can chat to them beyond the small talk, it’s how we take our visitors from customers to friends we see often
- Make them feel special, someone’s Birthday or anniversary then you can go out of your way to make it an even more memorable event for them
- Collaborate with your team members to bring joy and happiness to each other’s and our customers day
- Focus on the details, we have service standards because we know it’s what brings order to what can be a very busy environment, if you can follow these steps coupled with your individual positive style then the magic happens

**What you can expect from us as a Food and Beverage Server**
- Flexible contracts, enjoy the freedom to work around your schedule while enjoying the benefits of being able to flex up or down when you need too, we are looking for hours upto 40 a week between April and September.
- Free staff parking
- Free food, no need to bring in a soggy Sandwich, we provide you a meal using the same ingredients and fresh local produce we use for our customers, and these can be enjoyed with bottomless hot drinks whilst on duty
- Friends and family discounts to enjoy in any of our 5 venues
- Early pay - If you are slightly tight on bills you can claim a percentage of your accrued pay before pay day
- Amazing tips - these are equally shared and 100% goes to the teams who deserve them
- Epic staff parties
- Really quite lovely people, our business is completely devoid of corporateness - we want to do the right thing by you and people at a human level

So, if you have presence, positivity and can engage with our customers we would absolutely love to hear from you.

Immerse yourself in the culinary haven of Boat House, nestled within the scenic Chichester Marina, where breath-taking views of Chichester Harbour set the stage for an exceptional dining experience. Perched on the waterfront, Boat House treats you to panoramic scenes of the harbour, allowing you to witness the gentle sway of boats and feel the invigorating sea breeze, all while being surrounded by serene beauty.

Our menu is a dedication to the vibrant flavours of the region, with each dish carefully crafted using the finest ingredients sourced from nearby farms and waters.