Prep Cooks and Servers

Overall Role Description: Your role as an event server is to provide friendly, courteous, and efficient service to our clients and their guests. Create memorable, positive dining experiences for our clients at every event, through the efficient, compassionate, and timely performance of the position’s duties and responsibilities. 

Pay Rate: all servers receive a flat day rate of $125.00 to work on average 10-12 hours for the day of the event or we can pay you $12.00 an hour depending on budget and/or length of time we need to hire you. Unless an individual server is told otherwise, servers are required to come to office location the day of event to load van, travel to venue for event duties, and return to office to unload equipment upon event completion. Transportation to the venue may be provided if a company vehicle is available to transport the team to the event location.

• Notes on Pay: Depending on experience and what a server is being hired for that day, each individual server pay is discussed between leadership only. Individual pay of servers is not to be discussed between team members.

Essential Job Functions

1. Unload and load a commercial van with equipment that weighs between 20 and 100lbs; be in good general health and no back or shoulder issues.
2. Set up tables with linens, china, flatware, and glassware
3. Make sure linen is placed properly on tables (guests should not be able to see any of the items under the table if standing front view of the table)
4. Pay attention to detail and know what is provided to our client and their guest’s meal preferences, likes, dislikes, need of water, or any other beverages.

1. Anticipate customer’s needs and requests and engage with guests in a genuine and compassionate way.
2. Perform assigned duties on the food service banquet line or production line if doing family or plated meals to assure that the meals are prepared on time and food is ready to be served.
3. Provide food in to go boxes first to our bride than their guests.
4. Remove and clear food from plates on tables, clear glasses and flatware from the table.
5. Maintain all requirements of safety and sanitation guidelines set by State Food Service Department.
6. Performs related duties as assigned or required.
7. Responsible for transporting items from trucking/loading/unloading bins, boxes, and equipment at the office location.
8. Some catering servers may be requested to help with the presentation of food for butler passed appetizer experiences, buffet line setups, and plated meals
9. Other catering employees may help transport and serve the food.

Seeking These Qualities

1. Must demonstrate empathy and compassion to connect with customers.
2. Must be inspired to serve the needs of our customers.
3. Prior experience in food service preferred, but not required.

Etiquette . Attire . Image

Etiquette for table service includes the knowledge of serving food. The order of food service is linked to the style of service.

1. The server will offer the client the need for refreshments many times throughout the meal experience; it is important the client never be denied/or delayed access to beverages and drinks.
2. The server clears plates from the right of the guest with the right hand. It is customary to serve women before the men at a table. The server clears dishes from the right of the guest with the right hand between courses.
3. Please make sure that you are not stacking dishes in front of the guest and please wait until all guests are finished eating to remove dishes.
4. Plating head tables is a responsibility that we take on at our events. When a bride and groom has established a head table with their bridal party present, we dismiss the bridal party first to the buffet line as we bring the plated meal for the bride and groom. If we are doing an all plated catered event, we plate the head table first before bringing out plates to the other tables.