Runner - Hotel Nyack - Nyack, Ny

REPORTS TO: Restaurant Manager
Purpose for the Position: The runner will be responsible for cleaning and clearing tables and the restaurant area while maintaining a high standard of sanitation, cleanliness and guest service.
Essential Responsibilities

• Assist servers with all aspects of service as requested.
• Carry trays of dirty dishes to dish room and break down trays according to the procedures.
• Run food to the correct tables and explain the dish.
• Clean all spills and breakage immediately.
• Maintain floor areas to ensure they are clean and dry.
• Report any damaged or worn items in the dining room to manager.
• Reset tables for next guest.
• Ensure all windows and glass surfaces are spotless.
• Clean service stations and fill ice bins.
• Clean highchairs and booster seats after each use.
• Clear all tables of dishes and debris; continually remove glasses, empty dinner dishes and used silverware from table.
• Greet guests as they are seated and bring water to the table.

To do this kind of work, you must be able to:

• Good communication and hospitality skills.
• Previous experience preferred, but not required.
• Use hands and fingers skillfully and easily.
• Be available on nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Get along with all kinds of people.
• Do the same task over and over, frequently in the same way.
• Carry out specific oral or written instructions, frequently following a simple routine.
• Stand or walk for long periods of time.
• Lift and carry things like heavy trays and tables.

Physical Demands: Lifting 50 lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 30 lbs. Requires walking or standing to a significant degree, reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing.
Environmental Conditions: Inside: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. A job is considered "inside" if the worker spends approximately 75% or more of the time inside.
Math Skills: Requires mathematical development sufficient to be able to: Add and subtract.
Language Skills: Must have developed language skills to the point to be able to: Read instructions, rules, etc.
Relationships To Data, People And Things
Data: Comparing: Judging the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
People: Serving: Attending to the needs, requests or the expressed or implicit wishes of people. Immediate response is involved.
Things: Handling: Using body members, hand tools and/or special devices to work, move or carry objects or materials. Involves little or no latitude for judgment with regard to attainment of standards or in selecting appropriate tool, object or material.
Specific Vocational Preparation: Specific vocational training includes an occupationally significant combination of: vocational education, apprentice training, in-plant training, on-the-job training, or essential experience in less responsible jobs which lead to the higher job or serving in other jobs; anything beyond short demonstration up to and including 30 days.