Experienced Restaurant Server

**Job description**

**Being a Restaurant Server at Cambridge Mill provides an amazing opportunity to hone your hospitality skills and have fun doing it**

**Share your passion for spectacular cocktails and delicious food with our guests and your fellow team members as you help to elevate each and every dining experience.**

**Enjoy the beautiful views from our sophisticated and stylish dining room as you work to uphold Cambridge Mill's great reputation for amazing food and outstanding service**

**What can you expect from us?**
- Great team dynamic, with genuine and thoughtful co-workers and managers that work hard to support your growth.
- Excellent opportunity for learning and earning. We believe that working in the hospitality industry is a rewarding career that should be celebrated, encouraged and fostered.
- We believe in the importance of a personal life and will work with you to create accommodations for schedule that allow you to celebrate life outside of work.
- Staff events, a comprehensive training path, staff meals, and discounts at all of our amazing Pearle Hospitality properties.
- Continued opportunity for advancement - from shift leads to management, there are many ways that we enjoy rewarding our best performing team members.
- A safe, inclusive and supportive environment that fosters constructive coaching, positive reinforcement and respect for one another and for our guests.

**What do we expect from our restaurant servers?**

A commitment to quality, to genuine customer service, and to continuously looking for ways to enrich the experience of our guests are fundamental. Our servers are expected to have a good base knowledge of the food we serve, the wines we pour and the cocktails we mix, while continuously looking for opportunities to learn.

Our guests have very high expectations for their experience when they join us and have come to trust our service staff for a friendly and knowledgeable approach to hospitality. Our menu changes seasonally and is often supplied with products from our own organic farm during growing season so there are always new things to taste and talk about.
- A passion for the amazing place we live and work - the community of Cambridge, the farmers that supply our restaurants, and the amazing breweries, wineries and cideries that highlight our menus.
- Takes pride in everything they touch, whether setting a section up for service or bringing out a plate from our kitchen.
- Treats their workplace like its their own - protecting it and guests by adhering to sanitation, safety, and alcohol beverage control policies.
- Believing in Pearle Hospitality - we want you to get excited about new dishes, products and projects and we want you to share that passion with our guests. We want you to know our story and be excited that you are now a part of it.
- We want you to ask questions - ask about ingredients, ask about our property, ask about a wine, ask about the history of a dish. We expect you to communicate these things to your guests - and we love having a team that enjoys teaching one another.
- Be clean, thorough and organized; in your environment, your time-management, in your communication to others, and in your additional duties and responsibilities. If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right the first time.
- Pride in ownership Treat each table like they are your own guests, clear courses completely, reset with clean and polished cutlery, remove unnecessary items from table. Everything should have a purpose
- Flexibility is important - both for us and for you. We will do what we can to ensure that you get the days off that you need, and we ask that you consider the needs of the business as well.

Additional Requirements:

- All Servers must be Smart Serve Certified
- A minimum of 2 years' experience in similar serving environment
- Pearle Hospitality and affiliated companies, including Cambridge Mill, accommodate the needs of job applicants throughout its recruitment and selection processes in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Accommodation needs must be provided in advance. To discuss your needs, please contact the individual noted in the posting._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

**Salary**: $16.55 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Discounted or free food
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Vision care
- Wellness program

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Evening shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Tips

Application question(s):

- Are you presently or have you ever been employed by any affiliated Pearle Hospitality properties? If YES, List location

(ETT: Bread Bars, The Pearle Hotel & Spa, Cambridge Mill, Elora Mill Hotel & Spa, Ancaster Mill, Spencer's At The Waterfront, Whistle Bear Golf Club)

**Experience**:

- Serving: 2 years (requir