Alta hiring for Servers

[ScottySkis]

http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/fbh/2859072440.html and paid 11 hour,sounds like a ski bum job.

 

[powhunter]

11 bucks an hour?? Thought all servers were paid dirt minimum...

Steveo

 

[ScottySkis]

11 bucks an hour?? Thought all servers were paid dirt minimum...
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Steveo

Maybe its no tips

 

[AdironRider]

Depends on the serving position. Often times, banquet servers and other types (not your typical dinner restaurant server) are paid higher wages as they dont really make much of their money on tips. I know the banquet servers are paid 10+ at my hotel to make up for the 8 hours shifts they work just setting up tables and chairs for meetings etc. Technically they are servers, but in reality their job description doesnt match the standard definition.

 

[deadheadskier]

There are also "gratuity free" properties that just pay service staff a higher wage. The Seaport Hotel in Boston would be one of them. Incidentally, they have the lowest staff turn over of any hotel in the city.

 

[AdironRider]

There are a couple places like that out here as well. Believe they pay 20 an hour for a "serving" position.

Oddly, they have the highest turnover it seems, and only really hire people part time. If I could have gotten a full time gig there back when I was still in F&B I would have been all over it.

 

[deadheadskier]

A higher staff turnover rate would be expected, so I was surprised to learn the opposite is true at the Seaport. Not sure what their pay/benefits are like.

 

[Smasandian]

A higher staff turnover rate would be expected, so I was surprised to learn the opposite is true at the Seaport. Not sure what their pay/benefits are like.

I've worked in the food industry for about 10 years, everything from dish bitch to chef and while I never worked in a hotel, I know that turnover is less likely in a hotel then a resto.

There is probably multiple different reasons but a few of them is that there is more stability in a hotel, it's sometimes unionized and because of that reason, higher wages due to guaranteed raises.

In a restaurant, you have none of that. The virtues of getting a higher paid hourly wage compared to tips is a personal one because if your a good server in a incredibly busy restaurant, you can easily make 100-200 or more in tips, especially in restaurants with high check totals. If a table is around $1000 bucks, even at %10, you get $100 bucks.

 

[dropKickMurphy]

Does the Snowpine provide housing/meals/season pass to its employees like the Peruvian does?

 

[steamboat1]

WOW!!

3 gallons of gas per hour.

Such a deal.

 

[Nick]

I bartended and waited tables for close to eight years, from when I was 16 years old and started washing dishes at an ice cream shop straight through bartending during college until I was about 22 years old, when I think I got my first full time position as a construction PM. Bartending served me very well (no pun intended) in college. On good nights I would normally clear between $150 and $200 on a 5PM - 2AM shift (9 hrs).

 

[snoseek]

IMO hotels are a more professional environment than a private restaurant, Have more structure. More structure as a day to day employee is the only way to go.With that said I am reluctant to ever work in a hotel environment ever again, although who knows...

In private restaurants I have worked for cokeheads, alcoholics, egotistical maniacs, boarderline manic chefs along with a handful of really talented people that truly understand the meaning of hospitality. It is a crapshoot if you're not from town and have the benefit of knowing anyone.With THAT said I'm a firm beleiver that the very finest food comes from private restaurants.

Scotty why don't you apply? I used to work in town back in the day and will say that all those private lodges at Alta are fun as hell to work at. Ask for housing and you will likely recieve, Snowpine houses I know for a fact. There is no lunch there as far as I know so it would just be either breakfast or dinner service. They are among the luckiest employees at Alta
IMO.

Go get some, you know you want to!

 

[snoseek]

WOW!!

3 gallons of gas per hour.

Such a deal.

You're not in New York anymore. 11 dollars per hour is not THAT bad in Utah. BTW I filled up for 295 this morning.

 

[AdironRider]

To each their own.

To be perfectly honest. The happiest Ive ever been was when I was just a busser, making maybe 7.50 an hour after tipouts, but riding 140 days a year and no responsibility.

Now Ive got a wife, good job, etc, and dont get me wrong Im not depressed, but I think life was better when she was a girlfriend and I didnt have to worry about anything cause I paid 200 bucks to live in a closet and could take the bus to the hill. Now Ive got bills, a house payment, and I cant get plastered during the super bowl cause I have work the next day.

 

[steamboat1]

You're not in New York anymore. 11 dollars per hour is not THAT bad in Utah. BTW I filled up for 295 this morning.

Average here in "THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD" is $3.85 (regular).

Nice place to visit Utah.

 

[snoseek]

Average here in "THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD" is $3.85 (regular).

Nice place to visit Utah.

I was just saying that 11 dollars in Utah is not the same as 11 dollars in NYC or Boston....

You can live wherever you want, I could care less.

 

[AdironRider]

Steamboat, you clearly dont think things through.

Yeah 3.85, but when your getting tipped at 15-20% 50+ a cover its bank.

The full time servers at the Four Seasons in NYC gross 100k+ a year. Same in Vegas, LA, etc at the prime restaurants.

Utah is dirt cheap to live in though. 5 bed, 4 bath 400 sq foot houses in Logan are sub 200k right now. Whats that go in NY and the surrounding CT/Westchester burbs?

A two income household could afford that house on 11 bucks an hour in Utah.

 

[deadheadskier]

Average here in "THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD" is $3.85 (regular).

Nice place to visit Utah.

When did you move to Boston? and where are you buying your gas? just filled up for $3.50 yesterday in the burbs

 

[kingslug]

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Started as a dishwasher at Alta, or was it Snowbird..hey..ya never know...

 

[Smasandian]

IMO hotels are a more professional environment than a private restaurant, Have more structure. More structure as a day to day employee is the only way to go.With that said I am reluctant to ever work in a hotel environment ever again, although who knows...

In private restaurants I have worked for cokeheads, alcoholics, egotistical maniacs, boarderline manic chefs along with a handful of really talented people that truly understand the meaning of hospitality. It is a crapshoot if you're not from town and have the benefit of knowing anyone.With THAT said I'm a firm beleiver that the very finest food comes from private restaurants.

Scotty why don't you apply? I used to work in town back in the day and will say that all those private lodges at Alta are fun as hell to work at. Ask for housing and you will likely recieve, Snowpine houses I know for a fact. There is no lunch there as far as I know so it would just be either breakfast or dinner service. They are among the luckiest employees at Alta
IMO.

Go get some, you know you want to!

From most people I talk too, you either love or hate hotel work, and vice versa when it comes to restaurants.

You like the independence working for resto but you get less back stabbed.