Bar Supervisor - Peregrine
Peregrine Restaurant
The Whitney Hotel
170 Charles Street
Boston,
MA
02114
Opportunity: Bar Supervisor - Peregrine
Supervise daily bar operations and beverage program at Peregrine in The Whitney Hotel while ensuring high standards of beverage quality, guest service, operational efficiency, and team performance. The Bar Supervisor supports the development and execution of the beverage program, including cocktails, spirits, wine, and beer, while maintaining strong leadership, operational discipline, and financial accountability in accordance with established restaurant and guest service standards.
Potential Career Path
Beverage Manager – Restaurant Manager – Food & Beverage Manager
Essential Job Functions
- Supervise daily bar operations to ensure consistent beverage quality, service standards, and team performance.
- Lead, train, and support bartenders and bar staff to maintain a professional, positive, and accountable culture behind the bar.
- Prepare and serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in accordance with established recipes and presentation standards.
- Develop and maintain a thoughtful, concept-aligned cocktail program that reflects the restaurant’s brand and guest expectations.
- Maintain strong knowledge of spirits, cocktails, wine, and beer and share knowledge through ongoing staff training and coaching.
- Monitor guest satisfaction and beverage quality, ensuring drinks are prepared accurately, consistently, and efficiently.
- Interact with guests to obtain feedback and ensure a polished, professional guest experience.
- Handle guest concerns calmly and professionally, resolving issues while maintaining hospitality standards.
- Ensure compliance with all State, Federal, and HHM Hotels regulations regarding the service of alcoholic beverages.
- Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol.
- Follow standards for identifying and managing intoxicated guests.
- Maintain bar organization, cleanliness, and sanitation standards.
- Manage beverage inventory including ordering, receiving, storage, and maintaining proper par levels.
- Monitor and control pour costs, waste, and beverage margins through proper inventory management and operational discipline.
- Assist with beverage costing, menu engineering, and revenue optimization initiatives.
- Maintain prep systems, recipes, and operational procedures to ensure efficiency and consistency.
- Ensure all bar equipment is in proper working order; report malfunctions and follow up on repairs.
- Complete beverage requisitions and maintain adequate supplies including glassware, garnishes, and bar tools.
- Assist with scheduling, coaching, and performance management of bar associates.
- Perform service functions during periods of high volume or staffing shortages.
- Be aware of guest satisfaction scores and work toward increasing departmental and overall guest satisfaction.
- Follow sustainability guidelines and practices related to HHM’s EarthView program.
- Practice safe work habits, wear protective safety equipment, and follow MSDS and OSHA standards.
- Perform other duties as requested by management.
Position Requirements
- Minimum two years of bartending experience required.
- Minimum one year in a leadership or supervisory role in a high-volume restaurant or bar environment is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of spirits, cocktails, wine, beer, and beverage program development required.
- Experience with inventory management, ordering, costing, and beverage controls preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to train, coach, and motivate a bar team.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to maintain systems and operational consistency.
- Ability to manage guest interactions professionally and maintain high hospitality standards.
Work Environment and Context
Work schedule varies and may include working varied shifts, holidays and weekends.
Requires standing for extended periods, walking, pushing, lifting up to 50 pounds, bending and reaching, stooping, kneeling, or crouching.
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble – Own It
About Peregrine Restaurant
PEREGRINE IS THE STORY OF TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION, AND THE COMFORT OF A SHARED MEAL ALONG THE WAY.
Mediterranean in nature, Peregrine is an exploration of the cuisine and culture from the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily — as well as the neighboring influences of Corsica and Catalonia. Named in part for the Peregrine falcon common to these places, the restaurant takes its cues from everything that bird might see throughout its journey. The name also means traveler, who we readily welcome to our corner of Boston's iconic Beacon Hill.
OUR CUISINE
Menus are designed to be enjoyed leisurely, in courses, with well selected wines to match. The flavors and techniques of the kitchen evoke the regional Italian specialties Peregrine is primarily influenced by, as well as the traditions of Corsica and Catalonia - influences applied to the seasonality and traditions of New England.
About The Whitney Hotel Boston
Our Hotel
Arriving in spring 2019, in the heart of Boston’s beloved Beacon Hill, with this stroll-able neighborhood as its backdrop, The Whitney is a sophisticated boutique hotel, a right-sized and refined city hotel, rich in comforts, that reflects its charming and eclectic address. Mixing the urbane comforts of a small luxury hotel with the pleasures of a gracious private house – The Whitney Hotel is a modern descendant of its neighborhood’s noble townhomes.
66 spacious guest rooms feature a restful simplicity – calming colors, thoughtful finishes, and the pleasures of marble baths, luxe linens and artful signatures. Steps away, and underscored with an easy nonchalance, a lobby lounge welcomes with seating nooks and easy-to-share comfortable spaces, an intimate bar specializing in that sought-after timeless cocktail menu and small plates to share. Tucked away for guests, a lush outdoor enclave invites guests to explore a hidden garden, and take in some quiet, open-air time, an exceptional city perk. Away from the hustle, but in easy access of everything, The Whitney Hotel is sought by those who have set their course to discover.
About HHM Hotels
An Industry Leader in Hospitality
HHM Hotels is the preferred operator to many sophisticated and institutional owners of hotel real estate, including public and private owners, across the United States and Canada. We are known for consistent outperformance in operating results, the stability of our managed portfolio and operating teams, and our unrelenting focus on people, processes, and technology. HHM Hotels is tireless in delivering results and working closely with our owners across a portfolio of 240 hotels and over $2BN in managed revenues in the United States and Canada.
MANAGEMENT
For the past 30 years, HHM Hotels has focused on building out specific and differentiated capabilities and technology to serve our owners and drive industry-leading results in the areas of revenue generation, cost management, service delivery, and associate development and retention. In particular, we have focused on developing proprietary data, processes, and business systems to drive advantage and maintain our unwavering focus on results across every aspect of our managed hotels.
INVESTMENT
HHM Hotels has a highly active and productive investment team that seeks to leverage our operating capabilities and market knowledge to source, underwrite, and introduce deals to our stable of industry-leading investment partners. We have helped put together dozens of related deals and focus carefully on potential operational efficiencies, brand or market repositioning opportunities, and other ways that we can find value through our extensive market knowledge, operating capabilities, and in-house legal, asset management, and risk management teams.
BRAND POSITIONING
Our experience with branded and independent hotels allows us to quickly determine the brand positioning within a local market to ensure the highest operational profitability. We understand the demands of hotel openings and rebranding because we’ve been on the ground to lead them, from Forbes Five-Star property openings and global product launches to corporate rebranding projects around the world.
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