Bartender

***we will accept applications on an ongoing basis***

**About The Opportunity**
At The Mining Exchange Hotel, the bar is more than a place to grab a drink—it’s a vibrant social hub where atmosphere, creativity, and hospitality come together. As a **Bartender**, you’ll play a key role in crafting that experience, delivering expertly made beverages while creating a welcoming and engaging environment for every guest.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who combines technical skill with personality—someone who can balance speed and precision while building genuine connections with guests. Whether it’s a signature cocktail, a classic pour, or a personalized recommendation, your work will help define the energy and identity of the space.

**Why This Opportunity Stands Out**
- **Creative Expression:** Showcase your craft through cocktail creation, presentation, and innovation
- **Upscale Setting:** Work in a stylish, high-energy environment within a historic boutique hotel
- **Guest Interaction:** Build relationships and create memorable experiences at the bar
- **Team Culture:** Collaborate with a passionate food and beverage team focused on excellence
- **Career Growth:** Develop your skills in a hospitality-forward environment with opportunities to advance

**About The Hotel**
Mining Exchange Hotel was built in 1902 as a stock exchange for local mining companies, The Mining Exchange Hotel offers a one-of-a-kind experience in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs. Our elegant, yet casual public spaces and guestrooms are all newly renovated.

**Job Role**
To serve beverages and/or food to the guests in a friendly, courteous and timely and manner, resulting in guest satisfaction. Also, to prepare beverages for other servers to supply to guests, and act as cashier for the lounge.

**Responsibilities**
- Maintains proper and adequate set-up of the bar on a daily basis. This includes requisitioning and stocking of all beer, wine, spirits, paper products, straws and stirrers, condiments and produce based on projections from the daily functions sheet.
- Responsible for maintaining stock, cutting, and storing of all fresh fruit and vegetable garnishes, juices and other perishables daily to insure product quality.
- Greets guests in a courteous and friendly manner, promotes and documents orders for drinks.
- Mixes, garnishes and presents drinks using standard ingredient recipes and practicing prudent portion control. Check guests for proper identification. Detect and act upon guest inebriation as trained. Demonstrate knowledge of liquor laws.
- Inputs orders into a register at the point of sale and creates a check for each guest and personnel guests, including those served by other beverage servers, to maintain accountability of all beverages served.
- Receives cash from guests, makes any change needed, verifies validity of charges, records charges, and insures vouchers are properly executed, in order to balance all moneys.
- Locks up and stores all beverage, food and other equipment items, deposits cash drops and secures bank.