Bartender resume example

Motivated, service-oriented Bartender with over 17 years high-volume restaurant and night club experience. Maintains composure when under pressure and tending to guests in one of the top grossing night clubs in the country. Fast and efficient worker goes extra mile to sell more and keep customers satisfied. Offering more than 22 years of overall experience in the restaurant industry providing patrons with superior service.

I began my restaurant journey in my early teens working catering jobs with my step mom. A taste of the hustle and bustle and walking away with cash, was all it took for me. I became a hostess at Mulligan's during high school. I was able to make my way up to food running/expo and even a server before heading off to Ocean City. My first job in OCMD was on 2nd Street at the Mug and Mallet and my roommate worked next door at Paul Revere. The whole 2nd street block was like one big family. Per Jeff Marx, I later moved upstairs to the Caribbean Pool Bar as a waitress and eventually learned to bartend.

After a few years of bouncing back and forth from Salisbury in the winter to OC in the summer, I decided to stay in OC year round. I began working at Smitty McGee's in the fall of 2007 as a bartender. I later became a shift and bar manager. I was in charge of all the daily manager routines including deposits and change orders as well as meeting with beer and liquor reps, creating new drinks and drink menus, scheduling promotions, inventory and ordering current and new items. Unfortunately, road construction put such a strangle on business, that the position was eliminated. During my time at Smitty McGee's, they received a never before used computer system. Dawn was proud to be called the first to have it, but it wasn't so easy. That meant we had to create all the screens with mods, write all the layers, work out the kinks, etc. Karen, GM, and I spent an enormous amount of time learning and creating this new system. We all learned a lot during that time and I was able to help my husband down the line when they received the same system at the Caribbean Pool Bar. In March of 2012, word came out that more construction was going to take place yet again, I applied at Seacrets and was hired. I was asked to stay on at Smitty McGee's to train all of the new staff coming in for the summer season before leaving full time for Seacrets.

I have been a full time year round bartender for most of my 10 years at Seacrets. I continuously work high volume bars, especially the night club. I have had individual sales of approx $4,500-$5,000 for just a few hours, showing my speed, ability to multitask, and efficiency all with banks spot on down to the quarter. Seacrets has a unique offering with it's 18 bars inside and numerous stations in each one. Having worked them all, gives me great knowledge and awareness. Seacrets as a whole has too. We see and experience so much and learn the best ways to deal with it all. I was a bar clean captain for quite a few years before moving up to inventory team, counting 2 bars per month.

Once Covid hit last year, I began picking up shifts at the Caribbean Pool Bar again for extra income. This summer I kept my shifts as well putting me at the Pool Bar Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and Seacrets 5 shifts Thursday-Sunday.

I have been hired to do most of the positions in a restaurant and have jumped in and helped in just about all the rest. I feel very confident with my front of the house and bar experience/knowledge, Jason and Chad's overall General Manager skills as well as Chad's chef skills in the kitchen. I feel we have a very well rounded partnership that can not and will not fail. We all got our wings on 2nd street and it means so much to us all. We all met our spouses there and have been married going on 9+ years. Jason and I have had a vision for this space for a long time. From our first ideas and sketches to see what it has become gives us so much pride and joy. We can see a future, a future for us and a future for generations to come.