Host/hostess

**Working Title**:Host/Hostess
**Employment Status**: Full-Time
**Starting Hourly Rate**: 21.50
**Address**:525 Avenue Viger Ouest Montreal QC H2Z 0B2
**New Hire Schedule**:9:00 à 17:00 (Lundi au Vendredi)

You might not know our name, but you know where we are. That’s because Compass Group Canada is part of a global foodservice and support services company that’s the 6th largest employer in the world, with 625,000 employees.

You’ll find us in schools, colleges, hospitals, office buildings, senior living communities, tourist attractions, sports venues, remote camps and military installations and more. We’re in all major cities, at remote work sites and everywhere in between - doing business in Canada and 50+ other countries where you can learn and grow. Join us now and point your career forward

Imagine a place where people work as one to create an experience that inspires many. Join us and know that you make it possible for friends, families, and co-workers to come together. No matter why they gather, we’re here to serve. Because of what we do, people share so much more than a meal. And that’s why this is so much more than a job.

**Why work with Eurest Dining?** We are a member of Compass Group Canada, the leading food and support Services Company. We provide diverse, innovative dining services to corporate headquarter locations, law firms, manufacturing facilities, distribution centres and call centres. Join our commitment to providing exceptional food service to the best of business and industry.

**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