Job Details

Barback

Job Type Full-time, Part-time Description Working at Lucys

From competitive pay to health benefits, Lucys is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to our eligible part-time and full-time team members.

* Health benefits for part-time and full-time eligible employees

* Fun and eccentric coworkers

* A fast-paced environment

* Paid time off

* Exciting atmosphere

* Opportunities for development

Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

**Responsibilities:**

* Assisting with opening and closing duties; restocking the bar with garnishes, straws, and napkins, ensuring that Bartenders have clean towels, glassware, etc.

* Ensuring the bar is well-stocked with ice, liquor, wine, and beer.

* Checking taps and appliances to confirm that they are working properly, making minor repairs or changing out kegs, if needed.

* Keeping the bar clean by wiping down surfaces, sweeping and mopping, removing soiled glassware, scrubbing coolers and storage areas, and emptying trash receptacles.

* Learning about menu items and memorizing cocktail recipes.

* Taking orders, preparing drinks, bussing tables, opening tabs, and processing payments especially during peak hours.

* Speaking to customers, answering questions, handling complaints.

* Maintain records and report levels of usage to assist in reordering process and ensuring that delivered items are stored properly.

Requirements **Skills/Experience**

* Meets state minimum age to serve alcohol

* Availability to work nights, weekends, and holidays.

* Proficient in written and verbal communication skills.

* Six months to a one-year minimum as a barback in a full-service, high volume restaurant preferred.

* Ability to interact professionally with other departments and outside contacts.

* Ability to complete a heavy workload and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.

* Good judgment and decision-making abilities.

***The characteristics described below are representative of those that must be met by a staff member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.***

**Physical Requirements**

* Must be able to work in a fast-paced, high energy, and physically demanding environment.

* Must be able to spend 100% of working time standing, walking, and reaching.

* Pushing, pulling and lifting objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally, from position to position.

* Feeling or grasping objects of different sizes and shapes.

* Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching in narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.

* Will be required to use physical capabilities including climbing and ascending or descending ladders, stairs, and ramps.

* Must be able to carry loads greater than 35 pounds and exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up-to 30 pounds of force frequently.

* Hearing sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.

* Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

**Work Environment**

* Exposed to frequent temperature changes.

* Subject to moderate to high ambient noise levels.

* Frequently required to function in narrow aisles or passageways.

* Hazards include, but are not limited to, cuts from broken glass and metal cans, burns, slipping and tripping.

* Frequently required to wash hands and/or wear gloves.

**Language Skills**

* Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

* Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and guests.

* Expressing or exchanging ideas or instructions by the spoken word.

**Mathematical Skills**

* Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.