Head Bartender

Company Background

The Standard is one of the most culturally engaged hotels in the world. Hotels with real cultural life, an inclusive spirit and true creative attitude. A destination layered with events and amusements that leaves you with an uplifted feeling.

The Standard's irreverent and playful sensibility, combined with a careful consideration of design, detail and service, have established its reputation as a pioneer of hospitality, travel, dining, nightlife, and beyond. The Standard hotels are known for their taste-making clientele, their pioneering design, and their unrelenting un-Standard-ness.

Mission Statement

To create experience by embracing and empowering a diverse collective of team members, collaborators, and guests, who choose to call The Standard home.

Our Purpose

The Standard’s commitment is to being an anchor for each neighbourhood in which we reside as well as a platform for culture and creativity. Bringing people together in its spaces to interact with each other in genuine ways.

Our promise is to ensure that a stay is an experience and that a memory means making friends and having stories to tell.  To understand why it exists, is to understand that The Standard, is a platform for people to meet, to engage, to learn, to dine, to sleep, to dance, to hideaway, to make believe and to do so whilst being yourself and having fun doing it.

We think of ourselves as a stage, not just a hotel. Here, you can become whomever you like, even if for just a night. Here, you will meet new friends, find new challenges, eat new food, stay up late, sleep in later, and at times, never even leave the property. We are unapologetically comfortable with disrupting expectations. It’s WHO WE ARE!

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Job Title: Head Bartender - Full Time

Department: Food and Beverage

Location: Grill

Reporting to: Bar Manager

Responsible for: N/A  

Job Purpose: Position encompasses standard grill bar. Quality control, staff training including, steps of service, bar protocol/policy, bar procedures & guest interaction. Maintain bar cleanliness and communicate maintenance issues. This position is basically the team leader for the bar, communicate bar issues to management and communicate management issues with staff. Position does not require any hiring which will be done by management.

Main Duties & Responsibilities 

• Train all new staff
• Collaborate schedule with manager
• Monitor and maintain drink consistency in bars
• Help maintain service standards, including guest interaction, steps of service. Communicate any issues with Manager
• Monitor liquor display at all bars including proper displays for various vendor relationships
• Maintain opening and closing duties at all bars, communicate any issues with bar Manager
• Report any maintenance or equipment issues to manager
• Bring any staff complaints to Manager, including schedules
• Assist manager with Staff evaluations
• Consistent training on menu items, including drink recipes, food and wine descriptions
• Help hold staff to highest standard for consistency with food beverage program
• Act as liaison between staff and management communication
• Work with Manager for areas needing improvement. i.e. pour testing and general beverage procedures –
• Health Department protocols and regulations are being followed and consistently monitored/tested.

Qualifications and Requirements:
Brand Ambassador:
Throughout the hotel we actively seek to employ a unique, diverse and thoughtful group of people that are committed to delivering our unconventional brand of hospitality while also growing with us:

• They are committed to and fully comprehend the idea of being of service;
• They do not just delight guests, but excite them–by creating unique, unexpected & memorable experiences;
• They are ambitious, vibrant and social/friendly individuals;
• They encourage genuine relationships with guests that enable them to not only preempt needs but foresee desires;
• They have personality and depth;
• They have a desire and unyielding appetite for learning & knowledge—being in-the-know with what is happening in the city and around the world;
• They are creative in areas like music, cinema, art, performance, fashion, design, tech and business;
• They are engaging, socially adept and solution-based individuals able to navigate the scene with confidence and ease;
• They are able to entertain guests in a compassionate, respectful and meaningful manner;
• They are authentically themselves;
• They want to play a role in constructing a kinder and better world.

Physical Requirements

• Physical:
  • Able to work standing for a minimum period of 8 hours a day
  • Periodical bending, kneeling, and stretching
  • Able to pull, push, carry and lift at least 40 pounds of force
  • Must be able to seize, grasp, turn and hold objects with hands
  • Frequently required to work in a limited physical space with variable atmospheric conditions including the following areas: ventilation, lighting, smoke, and temperature.
• Excellent knowledge of all bar products with a focus on wine and menu products
• Excellent knowledge of POS system
• Understanding: Ability to read, comprehend and carry out instructions according to established procedures
• Comprehension: Fluent in the English language
• Organizational Skills: Work efficiently, utilize multi-tasking, prioritize tasks
• Hygiene and Sanitation: Adherence to uniform, grooming and personal hygiene standards and expectations per SOP’s
• Punctuality: Adherence to posted schedule and arrival time and attendance at mandatory meetings when scheduled
• Responsibility: Personal comportment in line with Standard, New York policies, standards, and expectations.

Compensation and Benefits

• $22 per hour plus tips
• Excellent and Affordable Health care coverage
• Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Pet Insurance
• Up to 104 hours PTO, 56 hours - Paid Protected Time Off (Sick), 32 hours - Unpaid Protected Time Off, 20 hours Paid Prenatal Leave
• 401k - Company matching up to 2% after 1 year
• Employee Discounts on Rooms, F&B, Retail, and The Standard Marketplace
• Employee Meals, Employee Referral Program, Commuter Discounts
• Regular fun staff events and celebrations!