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The most important factor to consider when hiring a cook is experience. Preferably, savoir faire in the style of food you will be serving. Cooking candidates should express an enthusiasm for the food you plan to serve. If a cook is professionally trained, be sure that they can handle the speed of a busy kitchen as well as produce tasty dishes. Food safety, such as a Serve Safe certification is also a plus. While cooks don’t need to be as personable as the wait staff or hostess, they should be someone who can work as percentage of team and be reasonably polite.

Wait Staff

If you are expecting a high paced, instantaneous turnover rate each day, you lack someone who can proceed fast. However, if the view of your restaurant is quiet, affectionate, and slow-paced, such as fine dining, then you need someone who is comfortable that type of feeling. When interviewing for wait staff positions, ask each candidate what their strengths are. A server should be knowledgeable of the type of food you serve, as well as have a prime familiarity of wine and mixed drinks.

Host

Because the general job is the meet, greet, and seat customers. This is a good entry-level bother payment the duration of someone without a lot of restaurant acquaintance (or any). The host should be friendly and courteous, and also know how to handle rushes, waiting lines. A host should be an organized person who is comfortable multi-tasking.

Bartender

This position is often tops on the front-of-the house job ladder. To be a great bartender (and that is the only strain you should hire) a person sine qua non have a wide knowledge of mixed drinks, be friendly to both customers and staff and be a facts listener. Great bartenders can cooperation quality, respectful service to their own customers, while smooth getting the staff their drinks. Honesty is another important requirement. The bartender handles a lot of cash each shift and you need to be able to trust that he or she will not siphon any off the top.

Dishwasher

This is usually an entry-level position in the business. While dishwashing isn’t the most desirable nuisance in a restaurant, it is identical of the most important. Its always a good idea to be a little nicer to your dishwashers- give them a unburden meal or a tip after a particularly busy night- to keep them from walking off in the middle of a shift. Because, if they walk, there is a good chance the proprietress may have to finish the job! If an employee can stick out a few months in the dish abyss, then they are worth bringing up through the ranks, since nothing else will help build honesty the way dishwashing does.

Busboy (also referred to as a Busser)

Often, the first promotion a dishwasher gets is to busboy. This position is perfect for a high school student. The busboy is a gopher of sorts. His main job is to bus the dining room tables, however he can be conscripted by the cooks to fetch ingredients that are running low, or close to wait staff to help redress desserts or salads. The bartender may have a busser restock his coolers, if he doesn’t have his own bar-back. Bussing positions are an excellent way to gain exposure to all parts of the restaurant business, and a good transition to either a front of the house or back of the brothel position.