Dining Room Host/Hostess
Posted on Dec. 28, 2025 by Jane's Next Door
- Halifax, Canada
- N/A
- Full Time
- Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 35 to 40 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work setting
- Restaurant
- Urban area
Tasks
- Advise on menu selections
- Address customers' complaints or concerns
- Assist clients/guests with special needs
- Serve food and beverages
- Describe menu items including daily specials for customers
- Clear and clean tables, trays and chairs
- Provide customer service
- Prepare and serve specialty food at customers' tables
- Take orders and relay to kitchen and bar staff
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Safe Food Handling certificate
- Serving It Safe program certification
- Food and beverage server trade certificate
Transportation/travel information
- Public transportation is available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Standing for extended periods
- Physically demanding
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
Weight handling
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Initiative
- Organized
- Team player
- Reliability
Experience
- 2 years to less than 3 years
Employment terms options
- To be determined
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- Does not require Canadian work experience
Support for youths
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Support for Indigenous people
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
Advertised until:
Jan. 27, 2026
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