Dishwasher/Steward
Description
Our endeavor is to reflect the neighborhood, culture, and spirit of the city by offering a food and beverage program devoted to the bountiful ingredients offered in DC’s Adams Morgan District.
The Role…
- Must be courteous and gracious, always maintaining a professional demeanor.
- Establish and maintain effective communication and teamwork with fellow colleagues and other departments within the hotel.
- Offer guests an enjoyable experience that conforms to the hotel’s standards of excellence, professionalism, and friendliness.
- Sort and rinse dirty dishes, glass, tableware, and other cooking utensils and place them in racks to send through the dish or glass machine.
- Sort and stack clean dishes.
- Carry clean dishes to the line and other proper storage areas.
- Change dishwater in dish machine three times per shift or as needed.
- Pick up dirty pans and pots from the line through service, wash, dry and then restock items on the line.
- Wash cooking equipment by hand in 3-bay sink.
- Bring trash and garbage to dumpster once per day shift and twice per night shift or as needed and sweep trash around dumpster and receiving area.
- Set up or break down dishwashing area. All extra duties of rinsing, polishing, and desliming the machine.
- Sweep mop floors twice a shift or as needed to keep the kitchen, stairs, dry storage, walk-in coolers and the line clean and sanitary.
- Wipe up any spills to ensure kitchen floors remain dry and clean.
- Notify manager when dish machine wash or rinse cycle falls below safety standard temperature.
- Never touch dirty dishes before touching clean dishes without washing hands first
- Check assigned stations and follow attached duties that are assigned to the dish station.
- Maintain an increased awareness of safety issues throughout the hotel.
- Participate in scheduled departmental and administrative meetings as requested.
- Adhere to all standards of operations, policies and procedures, manuals, memos, and verbal instructions!
- Be familiar with all safety and emergency procedures including OSHA requirements.
- High School diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Three (3) years related experience in hospitality or service industry preferred
- Effective communication skills
- Collaborative spirit
- Ethical Conduct
- Computer Proficiency: Microsoft Office, Opera PMS
- Cheerful Outlook
- Eye for Detail
- Problem solving abilities.
- Referral DC Ward 1 Resident bonus + competitive compensation
- Flexible work schedules
- Discounted family rates
- Family meals
- Other legally State/Federal required benefits