Host/Hostess

at  Padrinos Italian Ristorante

Padrino’s is one of the best restaurant in Grande Prairie, serving real, fresh Italian food to our customers since 2001. Located in the Best Western hotel, we also cater to banquet functions held at the hotel. We offer competitive wages, benefits, various employee discounts and best of all, a great team.
Reporting to the restaurant manager, the Host/Hostess is responsible for greeting and escorting guests to tables in the restaurant, maintaining a courteous and efficient operation of the dining room, restaurant bookings and assignment of tables to ensure guest satisfaction.

Required skills and abilities:

• Must have the ability to communicate in English.
• Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
• Able to stand for extended period of time
• Capable of working in a fast pace environmen

• Meet and greet guests as they arrive, offer choice of seating, then escort them to their table and present menu.
• Greet all guests in a professional and welcoming manner.
• Up-to-date awareness of booking status with a wait list as required in order to accurately and positively advise walk-in customers of wait time.
• Provide sensitive assistance to guests with disabilities as appropriate and provide proper seating arrangements/entertainment pack for children in accordance with property policy.
• Escort guests to prepared tables and present menus introducing menu specialties and the server.
• Allocate tables to servers with attention to fair distribution of covers and timely service to the customer as required by company policy.
• Assist in re-setting of tables being alert to and responding to arrivals at the door.
• Thank guests for business on departure and encourage future business in line with company policy.

Required skills and abilities:

• Must have the ability to communicate in English.
• Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
• Able to stand for extended period of time
• Capable of working in a fast pace environment

If this is you, we would love to meet you! Please forward your resume.
We would like to thanks all applicants - only selected people will be contacted for interviews.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $15.15-$15.50 per hour
Expected hours: 10 – 20 per week

Additional pay:

• Overtime pay
• Tips

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• On-site gym

Work Location: In perso