Waitress Job Description Template

Duties and responsibilities for a waitress could be as little as taking orders and delivering food/drink to restaurant visitors. But, it could be as broad as handling everything in the restaurant. It depends on the size of the restaurant where you are working at and the policy the restaurant owners have created for their employees.

Several duties and responsibilities you might find are as follows :

1. Managing dining service
2. Establishing fine dining for the customers
3. Taking the order from the customers
4. Serving the order to the customers
5. Managing dining reservation schedule
6. Arranging special parties
7. Arranging business meeting menus
8. Ready to serve special dinner by request for the customers
9. Ready to handle foods properly
10. Ready to handle customers especially if there is any complaint
11. Checking the patron’s identification especially for alcoholic beverages
12. Collecting the payment from the customers
13. Talking a little bit to the customers about the meals
14. Preparing the check of the total meal cost
15. Preparing hot, cold, and mixed drinks for the customers
16. Setting the tables
17. Cleaning the tables
18. Serving the best menu to the customers
19. Explaining about the menus if the customers asked
20. Preparing specific meals such as salad, appetizer, and cold dishes
21. Checking the salt, sugar, cream and pepper
22. Guiding the customers to their table
23. Informing the special menus for that day

There are still several item you can find inside the waitress job description template below. You can add, modify, remove the item to suit your daily job in your restaurant.