Breakfast Attendant

Description The Breakfast Attendant is responsible for providing guests with a welcoming, clean, and enjoyable breakfast experience. This role ensures food safety compliance, maintains buffet presentation, and delivers excellent customer service in accordance with company standards and California labor regulations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time including working at either the Hilton Garden Inn or Homewood Suites. The following reflects the essential duties for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Greet guests warmly and assist with seating or buffet guidance.
• Prepare, stock, and replenish breakfast items (hot and cold foods, beverages, condiments).
• Maintain cleanliness of dining area, buffet stations, and kitchen prep spaces.
• Follow all food handling and safety guidelines per California Health & Safety Code.
• Monitor inventory levels and communicate supply needs to management.
• Assist with dishwashing, trash removal, and sanitation duties.
• Respond promptly to guest requests and resolve minor concerns with professionalism.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure smooth breakfast service.
• Remains aware of any and all potential security problems and reports them to supervisor/manager.
• Reports any suspicious or unusual situations encountered while performing duties to supervisor/manager.

Requirements

Greet guests warmly and assist with seating or buffet guidance.

• Prepare, stock, and replenish breakfast items (hot and cold foods, beverages, condiments).
• Maintain cleanliness of dining area, buffet stations, and kitchen prep spaces.
• Follow all food handling and safety guidelines per California Health & Safety Code.
• Monitor inventory levels and communicate supply needs to management.
• Assist with dishwashing, trash removal, and sanitation duties.
• Respond promptly to guest requests and resolve minor concerns with professionalism.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure smooth breakfast service. Language skills: Should have the ability to read and interpret documents in English. Experience and/or Education:
• Previous hospitality or food service experience preferred, but not required.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Ability to work early mornings, weekends, and holidays as scheduled.
• Physical requirements: standing/walking for extended periods, lifting up to 25 lbs, bending, and reaching.
• Must comply with all workplace safety and hygiene standards.
• Food Handler’s Card (California state requirement) must be obtained prior to or within 30 days of hire. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without accommodation. Each associate is expected to carry out all reasonable requests by management which the associate can perform. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and talk or hear. The associate is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The associate is frequently required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The associate must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are the responsibilities of those an associate will encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the associate regularly works near moving mechanical parts, occasionally works in outside weather conditions, and is frequently exposed to vibration. The associate is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals. The associate occasionally works in high precarious places. The noise level in the work environment varies. The associate will most often work alone.