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Bar Captain

Open 46d reposted 3× · 2 open copies

Main duties and responsibilities:

  1. Supervise the efficient running of the bar and restaurant:
  • Ensure all venues open on time and that they are ready for business.
  • Ensure excellent front of house service, allocate and support team members throughout the shift to maintain speed of service and cleanliness.
  • Keep team members busy and productive at all times.
  • Ensure team members meet the standards of the bars, addressing and correcting bad practice where need be.
  • Maintain the back of the house and cellars to a high standard.
  • Liaise on shift with the Head Chef to resolve problems and ensure great service.
  • Complete daily paperwork to ensure the safe running of the venues, and for those standards to be monitored and maintained throughout the shift.
  • Pre-empt and actively respond to problems that arise and keep management up to date.
  • Ensure all venues close on time, end of day jobs completed to a high standard, teams are signed off promptly, all back and front of house areas checked and secured and that venues are in excellent order for the next day’s service.
  • To clean and maintain all equipment and notify management of any issues.
  • Assist in cash handling procedures as required
  • Attending the weekly meetings.

2. Stock & Financial Control

Provide supervision and assist in the timely and accurate completion of tasks in relation to the following;

  • Tills To follow all Till and Cashing up procedures and ensure all teams are following these correctly.
  • Detailed check of deliveries for accuracy and quality of product.
  • Ensuring stock is received and secured in cellars on delivery.
  • Ensure stock rotation is applied when storing deliveries and that the correct storage method is applied to each product.
  • Display stock levels should be monitored throughout your shift and replenished as required.
  • Recording any wastage

3. Assist in the training of bar and restaurant team

  • Assist in induction days as required
  • Monitor new team members and allocate “shadows” for their first few shifts
  • Report back to the General Managers any areas where refresher training may be needed
  • Brief team members at the beginning of the night and debrief at the end

4. Personal Development

  • Ensure personal mandatory training is up to date
  • With the help of others, review your own work against the requirements for the role and identify any development areas.
  • Identifies with reviewers additional development areas which will provide support to the team.