Assistant Beverage Director

Sailor is a lauded neighborhood bistro on a corner in Fort Greene, helmed by Chef April Bloomfield and Gabriel Stulman’s Happy Cooking Hospitality. The partnership, according to the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner, “has resulted in a restaurant that is intensely, almost freakishly wonderful”.

We're a small restaurant with big ambitions nd we're looking for an empathetic, passionate, detail-oriented Assistant Beverage Manager to join us in our endeavor.

The Day to Day:
- On-the-floor leadership and direct engagement in daily service
- Spirit and cocktail focused beverage education and leadership
- Co-operation with the Beverage Director on bar organization, operations, management, spirit selections, and direct-to-guest wine and cocktails sales
- Beverage ordering, inventory, and cost management
- Bar team development and mangement
- Cocktail program creation, including recipes, materials, training and operational requirements, like par and batching programs
- Bar program management, organization, and systems
- Providing constructive, individually-tailored feedback and delivering high fives when the job is well done
- Constant coordination with colleagues in the kitchen, on the dining room floor, and with the executive team, in pursuit of a smoothly running restaurant
- Recruiting and training future generations of well-intentioned and highly skilled teammates.
- Administrative support: reporting, earnings reconciliation, scheduling, maintenance of service documents and menus

Who You Are:
- Passionate about spirits and wine
- Emotionally intelligent
- Skilled communicator
- Interested in personal growth and open to constructive feedback.
- Can make plans, but knows how to adapt them when the situation calls for it.
- Not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is called for to make the moment - or the month - successful.
- Able to lift 50 lbs and work for long stretches on your feet.

Why Work With Us:
In addition to being a part of a company where hospitality, positivity, and culture are our super powers, we offer a wide range of benefits for our employees.

Our core mission is to create restaurants that feel like home, and in our home, all are welcome. To that end, HCH provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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