Host/hostess

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**Host/ Hostess Details**:
**Location**:Berwick Comox Valley (1700 Comox Ave. Comox, BC)

**Status**:Full-Time

**Schedule**:11:00am - 7:00pm

**Wages**:$20.97/ Hour

**Perks**: Employee recognition program, discount employee meals, benefits available after 3 months probation waiting period

**Information**:Experience is an asset

**Start Date**:ASAP

**Job Summary**:
**How you will make an impact**:
You will be responsible for seating residents or patients in the dining room and handling customer service situations as they arise.

**As a Host/ Hostess, you will**:

- Promptly and warmly greet and direct guests to their tables based on availability or desired seating arrangements
- Help create an overall enjoyable dining experience and promote a safe, clean, and neat environment for guests and other associates
- Exhibit exceptional communications skills
- Get along well with others, demonstrate flexibility and patience; possess an interest in people
- Supervise the activities of food-service associates in the dining room to ensure proper customer service, food handling and sanitation procedures are followed
- Helps train new food-service team members
- Supervises the closing of the assigned dining room; ensures side work and station setup is properly completed
- Demonstrate knowledge of emergency safety procedures and help evacuate guests to safety in the event of fire or other emergency
- Assist with service, including occasional bussing and food service, while maintaining safe food handling and sanitation standards
- May be asked to operate equipment, including but not limited to fire extinguishers, telephones, iced tea/soda machines, soup wells and coffee machines
- Work with staff of other departments to perform job duties and during special events or functions

**About you**:

- Experience as a server or in a dining room setting is an asset
- Attention to detail
- The ability to make decisions
- Interpersonal skills, facility with meeting people, teamwork, collaboration, leadership, adaptability, and excellent communication skills are required
- Good personal grooming, confidence, integrity, ability to manage stress, dynamism, energy, autonomy, initiative, availability, flexibility, and orientation toward quality are required
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and readily acceptable to change work priorities at any time
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position