What Would I Do?

Food and beverage servers take food and beverage orders and serve orders to customers.

As a food and beverage server, your duties can include:

• greeting patrons, giving menus to customers, making food and beverage recommendations and answering questions
• taking food and beverage orders and giving them to kitchen and bar staff
• recommending wines that match with customers’ meals
• serving food and beverages
• collecting and processing credit card, debit or cash payments for bills

Bartenders mix and serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

As a bartender, your duties can include:

• taking beverage orders from serving staff or directly from patrons
• mixing liquor, soft drinks, water and other ingredients to prepare cocktails and other drinks
• preparing mixed drinks, wine, draft or bottled beer and non-alcoholic beverages for food and beverage servers or serve directly to patrons
• collecting payment for beverages and record sales
• maintaining inventory and control of bar stock and order supplies
• cleaning bar area and washing glassware
• making sure provincial liquor legislation and regulations are followed

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