Server Resume Example El Jardin Mexican Restaurant

SERVER

Professional Summary

Responsible individual with over 5 years of thorough experience administering dynamically efficient customer service to guests in various restaurant settings. A versatile professional equipped with an enriched history in practical team collaboration, constantly evolving personal development, and resolving numerous issues with management, staff, and customers alike.

Work History

Server, 07/2016 to Current
El Jardin Mexican Restaurant – Santa Cruz, CA

Demonstrated authentic quality assurance techniques in order to guarantee a safe and universally welcoming dining experience. Carried out laudable service by carving out a warm and congenial environment for all customers. In the same manner, executed acts of palpable hospitality.
Integrated systematic planning and garnered employee and customer trust. Coordinated and assigned shift duties to server assistants in order to accomplish respectful yet swift customer service.
Diligently handled cashiering and point of sale deposits to ensure complete accuracy in cash intake/depositing. Input orders into the register and clearly conveyed those orders to the kitchen staff and bartender.
Navigated guests through the specials of the day, helped with questions regarding the menu while exemplifying comprehensive knowledge of the food, and also checked identification to reinforce age requirements for alcohol based products.
Utilized phone to handle to go orders.
Became familiarized with all operating mannerisms of restaurant areas thus strengthening team partnership in a satisfactory way.
Skillfully organized dining area to accommodate various parties of people according to their purpose. Consistently pre bussed tables, made sure to remove finished plating, refilled empty glasses, and replaced utensils.
Executed appropriate prep work for salad bar and drink station. Served appetizer dishes, prepared beverages, made deserts, and restocked items.
Professionally addressed and solved arduous problems with kitchen staff to elevate customer satisfaction.
Expeditiously promoted from Server's Assistant to Waiter.

Lifeguard, 05/2015 to 07/2015
Seahorse Swim School Inc. – Santa Cruz, CA

Garnered aptitude within a relevantly suited First Responder skill set that includes CPR and First Aid teachings to help individuals in laborious situations.
Passed on advantageous swimming skills to individuals of all ages thus curating aquatic strength, ubiquitous confidence, and growth in an all welcoming learning landscape.
Fulfilled customer satisfaction by welcoming all attendees with an utmost sense of kindness and an attitude geared towards solving all problems in an essentially courteous and plainly effective manner.
Cooperated with head staff to advantageously locate key components of great concern and produce wholly reliable and highly effective solutions for them.
Responsibly monitored the mass safety of all guests near or in the swimming pool.
Logged minor incidents into a vast series of daily reports for reference via higher staff/management.
Always followed pool based procedures/policies in addition to personally submitting knowledgeable input to staff in hopes to expand broad safety awareness.
Closely examined all pool attendees behaviors to identify safety concerns and eliminate written rule violations. Intently observed swimmers to rapidly locate those facing affliction.

Food Service Worker, 06/2014 to 08/2014
Whitings Foods Inc. – Santa Cruz, CA

Handled food orders from families and individuals alike in an engaging manner followed by clearly explaining menu options.
Managed cashiering matters quickly and responsibly during rush hours of customer traffic.
Exuded hospitable qualities topped off by authentic kindness when interacting with guests.
Executed exemplary standards for prime food safety, product freshness, refrigeration, and weights/measurements.
Continually grew more knowledgeable about specific products and special sale items to correctly answer a customer's dire questions.
Served desserts, appetizers, and main courses as well as re-stocked specific eats when the prior stock was diminished.
Followed work safety guidelines.
Maintained a friendly and clean workspace environment by providing palpably thoughtful service.

Skills

Knowledgeable about calmly communicating in intense situations.

Acquainted with smoothly prioritizing, organizing, planning, maintaining concentration, and efficiently completing all assigned tasks.

Proficient at cash handling/operating POS system.

Trained to achieve and then quickly exceed standards of productivity and performance.

Punctual and respectful towards workplace requirements.

Well versed in quickly resolving customer complaints.

Invariably creative when trying to locate unique and effective approaches towards solving problems.

Responsible and endlessly willing to learn.

Education

Associate of Arts: Liberal Arts & Sciences AA Degree, 12/2019
Cabrillo College - Aptos, CA

Associate of Arts: Photography AA Degree, 12/2019
Cabrillo College - Aptos, CA

Internships/Volunteer Work

2015 Audio and Video intern at Indigital Institute of Recording Arts Santa Cruz (now known as 365 Producer)

2015 Intern on set of "Catty Wompus" film shoot

2014 Global Student Embassy volunteer for reforestation, agricultural sustainability/studies, and documentary making

2012-2014 Harvey West Summer Camps Junior Leader

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

El Jardin Mexican Restaurant
Seahorse Swim School Inc.
Whitings Foods Inc.

School Attended

Cabrillo College

Job Titles Held:

Server
Lifeguard
Food Service Worker

Degrees

Associate of Arts : Liberal Arts & Sciences AA Degree , 12/2019
Associate of Arts : Photography AA Degree , 12/2019

Server Resume Example

Resume Score: 80%

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