What are the responsibilities and job description for the Aloft Breakfast Host position at Aloft?
Position Overview:
The Breakfast Host oversees food operations, including food controls, sanitation, and cost control. The position is responsible for cost controls, inventory, order requisitioning, following legal and sanitation standards and codes, and basic familiarity of kitchen equipment and tools.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Willingness to accept the most effective role
- Understand and properly evaluate inventory of food
- Place orders with approved food and beverage vendor
- Utilize understanding of aforementioned inventories to maintain proper par levels and requisition orders based on business needs and budgetary concerns
- Maintain food areas for cleanliness, proper operation, and institute systems that will improve guest satisfaction and service
- Understand and have knowledge of basic hotel operations outside of Food and Beverage
- Utilize understanding of aforementioned knowledge to handle guest issues and concerns
- Understand brand specific standards and its effect on guest satisfaction and brand-initiated quality assurance standards
- Utilize aforementioned brand standards based upon training, and implement consistently these standards to ensure success in brand initiated quality assurance inspections
- Ensure food operation complies and passes the local county’s board of health inspection by following sanitation laws set forth by the county’s Board of Health
- Other duties as specified by the Assistant General Manager or Manager on Duty on an "as need" basis
Qualifications:
- Previous culinary experience strongly preferred, minimum 1-2 years in a respectable kitchen and food servicing establishment
- ServSafe certified
- Lift up to thirty (30) pounds, unassisted
- Stand for long periods of time
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals