Food Runner

A new concept from Michelin-starred COTE Korean Steakhouse, unveiling its highly anticipated opening : COQODAQ, our new fried chicken concept, which is just two blocks from our COTE NYC location.

Gracious Hospitality Management is first and foremost an outstanding hospitality company that conceptualizes Michelin-starred and James Beard nominated restaurants. We focus on both passion and profitability. We are professionals committed to ensuring exceptional hospitality and service to our customers. GHM has been honored with receiving a Michelin star eight years in a row for its restaurants Piora, Cote Korean Steakhouse & COTE Miami.

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Must have open availability, including AM, PM, and weekend brunch shifts.

Runners are dynamic hospitality professionals responsible for the rapid delivery of food orders from the kitchen to customer tables. Runners elegantly present each dish to the table with detailed explanations of the item’s major components, ensuring all additional communication on allergies or gifts are noted to the diners. Runners also act as a liaison between the kitchen and service.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities :

Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following :

• Completes all assigned side work related to set up and breakdown of runner stations in the kitchen area. Stocks and organizes supplies for restaurant dining, and to go and delivery operations before service begins.
• Ensure coolers, and walk-ins are stocked, organized, and clean.
• Informs management or chefs when supplies are running low.
• Prepares plate ware, silverware, and garnishes. Plates dishes according to standards set by the Executive Chef.
• Packs to go and delivery orders with care, and delivers them to pick up customers and delivery couriers.
• Delivers customer dishes to their assigned position and table quickly and accurately. Maintains tables by removing courses as completed, replenishing utensils, refilling water glasses and being alert to customer needs when delivering food.
• Answer customers’ questions about ingredients and menu items including all allergy notes.
• Communicates when items are a gift from the house, contain allergies, or have been modified to accommodate a customer request.
• Runners should have thorough knowledge of all menu items, allergies, and presentation to answer all customer inquiries and maintain quality control. Ensures food is served in accordance with safety standards (e.g. proper temperature).
• Liaises between Front of the House and Back of the House team members.
• Reads the order tickets and ensures that any customer with allergies are delivered the correct dishes.
• Reports to each scheduled shift on time, in uniform, and ready to work.
• Responsible for training new employees as assigned.
• Assists other stations or areas of the restaurant when requested by management.
• Must have open availability, including AM, PM, and weekend brunch shifts.

Standards :

Qualifications :

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential job duties and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform those essential functions.

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to :

New York State’s Pay Transparency Law requires employers to include a range of pay for

all advertised job, promotion, or transfer opportunities.

New York Pay Range

$16.50 — $16.50 USD

Benefits (with variation for full-time / part-time employment) :

COQODAQ fully complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws by providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, and genetic information (including family medical history), or any other legally protected status.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job should contact the Human Resources department at <