Job Description

The Dining Server will provide excellent customer service to our residents. Take resident orders, serving meals, providing assistance, and creating a pleasant dining experience for the resident.

Schedule: full-time (days, evenings and weekends).

Responsibilities and Duties

• Assist the Dining Room Manager with special projects as assigned
• Take residents’ dining orders in a friendly and attentive disposition
• Learn and retain residents’ names, special requests, and dietary restrictions
• Ensure dining room is set up, all items needed for service are readily available (silverware, napkins, menus, salt/pepper shakers, etc.)
• Assist with cleaning and sanitizing the dining room, menus, kitchen, serving stations, and other areas as directed
• Ensure safe food handling
• Assist with preparation of beverages, snacks, desserts, salads, and condiments for service
• Assist residents with any special dining requests
• Ensure all residents are accounted for during each meal, and completing documentation of their attendance
• Assist with special events
• Participates in and attends all in-service training as scheduled
• Ensures compliance with all Federal, State, and local regulations, as well as community policies and procedures
• Other duties as assigned including assisting staff, creating schedules, organizing side work, and guest relations.

Qualifications

• High school diploma preferred/GED accepted
• Minimum of two years’ experience preferred in fine dining hospitality and/or full service senior living
• Ability to handle multiple priorities
• Competent in organizational, time management skills
• Demonstrates good judgment, problem solving and decision making skills
• Experience working with seniors

Physical Abilities

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate is often required to stand, walk, sit, use fine and gross motor skills, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, and smell.
• An individual in this position will be required to lift or carry weight in up to 50 lbs. Intermittent physical activity includes lifting and supporting residents. The associate must use proper body mechanics.

Additional Information

Benefits for full time include:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Supportive leadership team
• Ancillary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Life Mart Employee Discounts