BOOK YOUR GARDEN CITY STAY
Best Rate Guarantee will assure that you’ll always get the best rate available when you book directly with The Garden City hotel.
1. Make a reservation through one of the following official website for The Garden City Hotel or The Garden City call center.
2. If within 24 hours of making your reservation, you find a qualifying lower price for the same room type, reservation dates and terms and conditions for the booking, we’ll match the rate and give you an additional 15% off the room rate for each night of your stay.
You must contact 877-549-0400 to have your request verified.
Considering a Career in Hospitality?
Do you love serving others? We do. It's not only our job, it's our greatest privilege. And we're always looking for those who share our passion. From culinary pros to front desk managers (and dozens of positions in between), if you like the hospitality industry, we think you'll love The Garden City Hotel. Scroll down to view current career opportunities. All positions require scheduling flexibility, including weekends and holidays.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Evaluate individual employee performance, determines areas in need of improvement or requirements for advancement, establishes goals, objectives and training needs required to achieve hotel standards. Coaches, counsels, and retrains personnel as needed in order to ensure superior levels of performance. Management inventory control, pricing of all food and beverage menus. Ensure staffing levels for all outlets are accurate based on hotel and outlet business levels. Communicate with guests and employees using a positive and clear speaking voice, listen to and understand requests, respond with appropriate actions and provide accurate information. Ensure basic standard operating procedures for all outlets are in place and are in compliance with Federal, state, local practices. (e.g. ServSafe, Responsible Vendor) Ensure all statutory requirements regarding a food and beverage operation, that all licenses, including special licenses, are timely applied for and that the conditions affecting the issues of a liquor license are not jeopardized.
The ideal candidate will have fine dining, upscale restaurant experience. You will have experience in restaurant operations, personnel management, and employee training and development. You must be a dedicated hands-on trainer, who strives for and demands excellence, able to guide and teach staff to be fully knowledgeable of menus, sales and service.
Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to: courteously greet and escort guests to tables and assist in seating, ensuring hotel standards of service. Assist in preparing the restaurant for service and maintaining the cleanliness of the room at all times. Take reservations and maintain reservation book, assist in monitoring the guests’ needs. Experience with 'Open Table' preferred but not required. Computer skills are required. Experience in a fine dining restaurant preferred.
Responsibilities include, Maintain and manage profitable food and labor costs (benchmark to be determined and shown), Participates in food ordering and inventory control, participates in menu writing and researches new recipes as assigned, successfully complete and maintain ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Examination, implement current Industry Safety and Sanitation Standards Policy for Slanted Porch, monitors storage areas to ensure proper temperature and humidity levels, ensures proper labeling, storage, rotation, and organization of products and ingredients, maintains consistent quality through control of standard cooking procedures.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Must be able to read and follow menus and recipe. Plan, prep, set up and provide quality service in all areas of food production for all menu items. Visually inspect, select, and utilize only food items of the highest quality in the preparation of menu items. Stock, properly rotate and replenish items needed for service. Maintain organization, cleanliness and sanitation of work areas and equipment. Comply with Department of Health standards at all times. Work the line in a timely fashion and create quality and consistent products for our guests. Ensure final presentation of menu items is up to standards. Provide outstanding customer service when dealing with guests. Perform other related duties as requested.
Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to: Deliver food and beverage orders to guest rooms. Maintain complete knowledge of all menu items. Ability to input and access information in the property management system/computers/point of sales system. Assist in the maintenance of the Room Service area and equipment. Experience in Hotel Room Service or Fine Dining restaurant required. You must have excellent guest relations, communication and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: set up assigned tables, retrieve and serve alcoholic, non-alcoholic beverages and food orders to guest tables according to Hotel specifications and group requirements, courteously and efficiently. Maintain cleanliness and condition of work areas and equipment. Applicants should have good people skills and a pleasant personality. Must have prior server experience in catering and or fine dining establishment. Our servers earn base pay plus lucrative gratuities.
Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, addressing all daily guest concerns in the hotel; overseeing the Front Desk, Front Service and Valet Parking staff; assisting with checking in/out all guests; handle all VIP check ins/out; ensure staff follow hotel credit procedures; train and manage all staff. The ideal candidate MUST have a minimum of 2 years HOTEL Front Desk management experience, working knowledge of OPERA a plus. This position requires flexibility with scheduling on all shifts including overnights, weekends and holidays.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Check-in/check-out hotel guests courteously and efficiently. Process all payments according to established hotel requirements. Provide information and assistance to all guests and visitors. Provide prompt, courteous and efficient handling of all requests for guest room reservations, changes, cancellations and information. Provide prompt, courteous and efficient handling of all incoming calls.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: field nearly all inquiries for transient reservations and must convert as many of these calls as possible into confirmed reservations. After quoting rates appropriate to specific requests, you must obtain agreement from the caller and confirm a reservation. You must be able to follow sell strategy as determined by revenue management; listen and communicate effectively with a wide range of callers; close the sale; and input detailed information into the property management system (Opera), accurately and efficiently. You are responsible for handling group blocks and inputting rooming lists, selling gift certificates, processing travel agent commissions, and proper coding of market segments and corporate accounts.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: prepare and distribute assignment sheets to assigned staff and review priorities. Supervise, train and inspect the performance of all Housekeeping/Laundry/Valet staff ensuring that all procedures are completed according to standard. Assist where necessary to ensure optimum service to guests. Monitor and maintain cleanliness, sanitation and organization of assigned work areas. Maintain complete knowledge at all times of status of hotel room count, group arrival, VIP’s, special events and knowledge of job responsibility of staff. Complete other Housekeeping assignments as directed by the Executive Housekeeper. Must have prior hotel Housekeeping management experience. Must possess excellent supervisory and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: clean guest rooms as assigned, ensuring the hotel's established standards of cleanliness. Responsible for reporting any maintenance deficiencies and handling guest requests or complaints. Ensure the confidentiality and security of all guest rooms. Complete other cleaning projects as assigned.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Drive, park and retrieve guest/visitor vehicles as they arrive and depart the hotel. Exercise safe driving standards. Provide outstanding customer service when interacting with guests. Working conditions include being exposed to all weather conditions, and standing for extended periods of time. Perform other related duties as requested. Experience required: Must have a valid New York State Driver’s License. Must have a clean driving record; no points. Experience driving manual and automatic transmissions a must. Excellent customer service and communication (verbal and written) skills. Flawless track record with attendance, strong team-working skills, positive attitude, attention to detail, and flexibility with scheduling is a must; Schedules will include weekends and holidays.
Please fill out an application for future openings, and we will keep you in mind!
