Customer Service Bartender Server
Resume:
DAVID BARR
Sun Valley, CA *****
*************@*****.***
With over 25 years in the hospitality industry, I possess a great deal of knowledge in all areas of the business. A dependable service pro, successful in providing fast, high-quality customer service to guests in various bar, restaurant, or lounge settings. Adaptable, calm under pressure professional with expertise in personnel development, team collaboration and resolving issues with customers, waitstaff and management. Work Experience
Bartender/server
Buca Di Beppo - Universal City, CA
May 2023 to Present
Served food and beverages promptly with focused attention to customer needs. Cultivated warm relationships with regular customers. Worked with POS system to place orders, manage bills, and handle complimentary items. Maintained clean and organized dining areas to uphold restaurant hygiene standards. Working as a service well bartender and as a server. This is a high volume, family style restaurant with focus on banquets, celebrations, and parties.
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Bartender
Wokcano - Burbank, CA
April 2022 to July 2023
Working as a bartender/server at an extremely high-volume restaurant, containing a full bar/lounge which serves a full menu to the bar/lounge patrons and often dining room guests. Customers are allowed to seat themselves without being greeted by a host, nor provided with menus or wait time, so you must be fast and alert.
Bartenders are expected to handle no less than 5 six tops, 4 four tops, 17 seats at the bar as well as making all alcoholic beverages for the servers.
Servers/bartenders are responsible for running their own food, accuracy of orders, proper handling of money and knowledge of beer, food and liquor
I regularly close the bar by myself, which requires restocking, thoroughly cleaning the bar, sanitization practices, washing and putting away of glasses, shutting down all entertainment systems, balancing the drawer, printing and balancing daily report, printing and organizing credit card transactions and in the end making sure all my cash and credit transactions all balance out Server/Bartender
Yard House
July 2018 to April 2022
Server/bartender at Yard House, Burbank where I quickly became a regular late night closer. 135 beers on tap, selections often changing
Work five to six closing shifts a week
Recommended daily specials, liquor/wine/beer selections and desserts to guide patrons toward more profitable items.
Lead Bartender
Tin Horn Flats Saloon and Grill
September 2016 to July 2018
At Tin Horn Flats the bartender was required to fill every position. As a lead bartender, training new hires was also part of the job.
This duty list included host, server, bar back, busser, food runner, dishwasher, and if there was time left over, bartending
I would work opening and closing shifts, fulfill all the afore-mentioned duties, change my own kegs, place takeout orders for delivery companies as well as regular customers Another requirement of the male bartenders was to serve as security/bouncers. Lead Bartender
California Pizza Kitchen
February 2006 to August 2016
I was with this company for nearly 11 years began as a server, and was promoted to lead bartender/ trainer within the second month of being hired
Remained a trainer the entire time I was at CPK
Would work an average of six shifts a week as well as training new bartenders and servers' Complete inventory every Sunday night, place liquor orders and maintained a progressive and ever- changing craft cocktail menu
I would do any job asked of me from bartending to serving, takeout, expo, food running and bussing I am the ultimate utility player.
Education
Associate of Arts in Business Administration
Valley College
High School Diploma
Bellarmine Jefferson High School - Burbank, CA
Skills
• Knowledgeable in many POS systems Highly Reliable Personable and very good with Knowledge of Craft and Microbrews customers Handling Difficult Customers
Extensive knowledge of beer, wine Hospitality Service Expertise and spirits Creative Mixology
Natural Leader and skilled trainer
Closing Inventory Trainer
Food Service
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