Highly skilled Server/Waiter with experience in cash handling, customer service, relationship building, and taking initiative to improve productivity.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Server Trainer
Longhorn Steakhouse
Belton
09.2019 - Current
Trained new servers on menu knowledge and customer service techniques.
Coordinated staff schedules to ensure adequate coverage during peak hours.
Demonstrated proper food handling and safety procedures to team members.
Lead Server
Houlihans
Leawood
01.2017 - 01.2019
Acknowledged as the most productive and professional staff member by management.
Setting examples for other staff members with prestige and experience.
Leading other staff members into success, by my leadership skills and willing to work with everyone as a team.
Proposed ideas and concepts to management to help drive our business.
Selected to be a trainer and provide every staff member with the tools they may need to succeed.
Server
Applebees
Belton
01.2012 - 01.2017
Server, ensuring that customers received the best quality food along with excellent service
Greeted customers and tailored dining experiences to enhance satisfaction.
Making the customer feel important and showing that customer comes first.
Ensured customer prioritization to foster loyalty and repeat business.
The ability to move quickly on the job and stay organized with all tasks.
The ability to move quickly on the job and staying organized with all tasks.
Cultivated relationships with customers to encourage return visits.
Recognized as an expert in the field, providing answers and solutions to problems that arose on shifts.
Trusted enough with responsibility to be put through the process of becoming a lead trainer, and to pursue a management role.
Education
Graduate -
Raymore Peculiar Senior High School
Skills
Customer engagement
Accuracy and timing
Employee training
Customer service
Menu knowledge
Team leadership
Customer retention
Professional Highlights
Applebees, Belton, Missouri, 01/01/12, 12/31/17, Server, Ensuring that customers received the best quality food along with excellent service, Greeting customers and providing them with the best dining experience, Providing customers with information regarding current specials and restaurant information and menu changes, Making the customer feel important and showing that customer comes first, The ability to move quickly on the job and staying organized with all tasks, Performing cash transactions and working with percentages, and simple math accurately, Creating a relationship with customers to ensure return visits, Acknowledged as an expert in the field, sought out by others for answers, solutions and any problems that arose on shifts, Trusted enough with responsibility to be put through the process of becoming a lead trainer, and to pursue a management role
Houlihans, Leawood, Kansas, 01/01/17, 12/31/19, Lead Server, Acknowledged as the most productive and professional staff member by management, Setting examples for other staff members with prestige and experience, Leading other staff members into success, by my leadership skills and willing to work with everyone as a team, Proposed ideas and concepts to management to help drive our business, Selected to be a trainer and provide every staff member with the tools they may need to succeed