Duties: 

- Take orders from customers for food or beverages.

- Check with customers to ensure that they are enjoying their meals and take action to correct any problems.

- Check customers' identification to ensure that they meet minimum age requirements for consumption of alcoholic beverages.

- Collect payments from customers.

- Write customers' food orders on order slips, memorize orders, or enter orders into computers for transmittal to kitchen staff.

- Prepare checks that itemize total meal costs and sales taxes.

- Present menus to patrons and answer questions about menu items, making recommendations upon request.

- Remove dishes and glasses from tables or counters and take them to the kitchen for cleaning.

- Serve food or beverages to patrons, and prepare or serve specialty dishes at tables as required.

- Clean tables or counters after patrons have finished dining.

- Prepare tables for meals, including setting up items such as linens, silverware, and glassware.

- Explain how various menu items are prepared, describing ingredients and cooking methods.

Special requirements: 

-High School diploma