Food Runner Jobs

Summary:

Our Food Runners ensure prompt and polite service to the members and guests. Serves as the liaison between the kitchen and servers. Carries food trays to appropriate tables and serves food to guests. Responsible for preparing service stations, clearing and resetting tables, removing all trays from the dining/banquet rooms and cleaning and closing service stations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Assists Dining Room Manager and other employees in assuring that the club’s policies and procedures for serving alcoholic beverages are consistently followed.
• Stocks servers’ station with supplies.
• Performs other appropriate duties as assigned.
• Serves water as members and guests are seated.
• Sets-up, empties and cleans salad bar.
• Assists in carrying food trays to tables.
• Re-sets tables at end of shift for the next meal period.
• Cleans-up spills, broken service ware and attends to similar problems during service with minimal disruption to diners.
• Attends pre-service training (line-up meeting).
• May assist banquet personnel in setting-up, serving and cleaning up after banquet functions.
• Cleans dining room areas.
• Assists with banquet and buffet setup.
• Removes soiled linen and replaces with clean linen.
• Assists Servers in their set-up, service and clean-up tasks.
• Moves tables and chairs as needed for the next member and guest diners.
• Collects trash from dining room, grill and other specified places after each serving period.
• Removes soiled dishes from table; brings to dish-washing area.
• Polishes silver service items.
• Helps to maintain a fully stocked buffet.
• Cleans and stores child high chairs and booster seats.
• Sets tables with silverware, glassware and other items.
• Keeps ice bins and buckets filled.
• Folds napkins and bread basket linens.
• Dusts chairs before and after meals.
• Takes packaged take-out orders to reception stand for member pick-up.
• Collects soiled linen from dining room; transfers to linen pick-up area.

Licenses and Special Requirements

Food safety certification.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Continuous repetitive motions.
• Required to stand for long periods and walk, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, bend, stretch and twist or reach.
• Push, pull or lift up to 50 pounds.
• Work in hot, humid and noisy environment.