Bartender - Yugen

Full time, Part time or casual role in a passionate and close knit team

• Competitive hourly rate plus penalties, get paid for every hour you work
• Growth opportunities within the venue and wider company

About Us

Yugen Dining, a new Asian fusion restaurant spanning two floors in South Yarra has finally opened With the addition of our Omakase bar coming in a few weeks' time and our steadily increasing bar trade, we are looking to add to our existing Bar team.

We are searching for experienced bartenders with an interest in unique ingredients, delicious food and genuine service.

Here's what's cool about the job:

• Our cocktail list is mínimalist and ingredient driven
• Think whisky highballs infused with Bamboo leaves and Green Tea Umeshu, or a margarita-adjacent cocktail that derives its acid from Sudachi and its salinity from squid ink.
• Our contracts are tailored to your personal circumstance. We're happy to offer parttime, fulltime, or casual contracts so that you can have the flexibility or stability that you fits your lifestyle
• Our staff meals are amazing with a different cuisine focus every day.
• Our company is Chef driven with an insane amount of back of house resources behind it; our inhouse production and pastry kitchens collaborate with the bar to produce our batches, syrups & infusions, saving a ridiculous amount of prep time.
• There is, of course, plenty of room to grow, develop within not only Yugen, but the LK Hospitality company. The restaurant is located below Yugen Tea Bar, an award winningteahouse led by one of Australia's most distinguished tea sommeliers. Part of the group is sister venue Omnia, a brasserie with an impressive cocktail and wine list. With more growth on the way, we have multiple pathways for development and advancement whether your interest is in food, cocktails, wine, tea, sake, operations or management.

Bartenders

• 1+ year of cocktail experience
• A passion for service, building regulars and making friends.
• An understanding that cocktails are a means for showcasing ingredients, not obfuscating them.
• The ability to read whether that guest at the bar is looking for a bit of friendly banter or if they're looking for a more refined experience. The ability to deliver both.

Barbacks

• An eagerness to learn.
• The ability to remain calm in a room full of glassware and a knack for thinking two steps ahead of the rush.
• A compulsive, internal Marie Kondoesque joy that gets sparked when you see an organised cool room.

For both - a genuine care for what you and a team player mentality.

You say "backs", you make sure the station stays organised, replenished and clean, and if you're at the beer taps and you overhear someone order a beer with your mate - well, you pour your mate that beer.

You understand that a good bar serves drinks, but a great bar serves people.

THE APPLICATION
If this sounds like your kind of thing,
**APPLY NOW

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