Cocktail Bartender – Fixed-Term

Good service at a wine farm restaurant in Cape Town CBD starts with you: friendly, quick and on top of every order. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Home base is a wine farm restaurant on the Cape Town CBD side of Western Cape. There's a probation period of three months before the contract is confirmed.

• Refuse service to anyone under 18 or visibly drunk, as the Liquor Act requires.
• Restock the bar fridges and help with the weekly stock count.
• Take orders on the POS tablet and read them back to avoid kitchen mistakes.
• Carry plates to the right seat without auctioning food at the table.
• Clear, wipe and reset tables fast during the Friday and Sunday rush.
• Pull espresso shots and steam milk for flat whites and cappuccinos.
• Split bills, process card payments and handle tip-outs at the end of shift.

• Neat grooming and a friendly manner under pressure
• Own transport or a safe way home after late shifts
• Quick with basic maths and card machines
• Happy to work nights, weekends and public holidays
• You can stand and walk for a full 8-hour shift

• Wine knowledge from a WSET Level 1 or wine farm stint
• A second language such as isiZulu, isiXhosa or Afrikaans

• Staff meal on every shift
• Uniform supplied and laundered
• Paid menu and wine tastings so you can sell with confidence
• Late-shift lift home within a set radius

• Put the names of the restaurants you worked at and your average covers per shift at the top of your CV.
• Recruiters ask about a difficult table, so have one real story ready about how you turned it around.