Part Time Server at Fine Dining Restaurant

We are looking for a fine-dining server to join our team who has a genuine interest to grow with the restaurant and help us start the conversation around Canadian Cuisine.

**Qualifications**:

- Willingness to continue to learn about the unique plants and products Canada has to offer
- Genuinely interested in exploring the cuisine of Canada and offering our patrons a world class experience
- Exceptional time management skills
- Personable and comfortable with staff and customer relations
- Highly organized and detail focused
- Articulate and invested in the customer experience
- Knowledge around wine, beer and spirits (Canadian specific is an asset)
- Good whole-hearted individual who truly cares about the customer and staff experience

**Server Responsibilities**:

- Customer hospitality is of utmost importance
- Customer experience in all aspects of service
- Provide knowledge and information about our concept, ingredients, suppliers and everything that we stand for.
- Receive and respond to reservations, event requests, supplier relations
- Work efficiently consistently in a high pace environment
- Contribute to the growth of the restaurant and our team
- To do mise en place, cleaning and service in the Restaurant. Understanding the importance of teamwork and flexibility within your role.
- To be fully conversant with every dish served in the Restaurant and to provide a confident explanation if requested.
- To ensure that all guests’ wishes are met so far as is reasonably possible. Showing passion and pride for the restaurant.
- To ensure that all tasks set are completed in the time allocated and to the standard set by the restaurant
- To be confident that the service is at all times performed in a professional manner and to the style as specified by the Restaurant Manager.
- To work efficiently consistently in a high pace environment
- To be passionate about attending all trainings, briefings and meetings

**Information**:
The Butternut Tree is a 62 seat Canadian restaurant overlooking the river valley and Alberta Legislature. The wall-to-wall picture windows offer an incredible view for connecting the customer to the natural landscape of Canada. We are focusing on offering genuine hospitality while offering the customer a journey to explore the high-quality and incredible diversity of products from our native landscape.

At The Butternut Tree our focus is to explore the corners of Canada discovering new and exciting ingredients to define our cuisine as Canadian. For over a year leading up to the opening we worked with suppliers, producers and growers from every province and territory of our nation, sourcing responsibly from passionate producers. By going back to our roots and starting from scratch there are no limits for replacing global sources of sweet, sour, bitter, salty with unique and unexpected ingredients from our home and native land.

Chef and owner Scott Downey has spent the last 10 years exploring the reaches of the globe expanding his culinary knowledge to bring it back home. Starting his career on Granville Island in Vancouver, then moving on to work in New York and Copenhagen, Denmark. Chef Downey has been formally trained at the Culinary Institute of America and then went to be mentored under Daniel Boulud, in New York, at his 3-Michelin Star Restaurant Daniel and under Rene Redzepi, in Copenhagen, at world-renowned restaurant Noma. At The Butternut Tree all aspects of this training and education will be implemented within our service and execution.

The Butternut Tree is open for dinner service only from Wednesday to Saturday at 5:00pm. We will host events on Sundays - Tuesdays on a case-to-case basis.

All staff members will have their own personal locker and a uniform shirt and apron which is then their responsibility to keep clean and pressed.

Compensation will be based on provincial minimum wage.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: From $15.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Tips

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Edmonton, AB T5K2L9: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- serving: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location