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Hallie Bessler
Longwood,FL
Summary
Professional hospitality expert with proven skills in mixing and serving beverages, managing bar inventory, and ensuring customer satisfaction. High volume, craft, and event bartending experience. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptability, and achieving high-quality results. Skilled in providing exceptional service, handling high-pressure situations, and maintaining clean and organized workspace. Known for reliability, flexibility, and creating positive experiences for patrons.
Overview
9
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Self-employeed
Event Bartender
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Created a unique cocktail menu that suited the needs of the clients' event.
- Enhanced customer experience by providing personalized drink recommendations and engaging in friendly conversation.
- Prepared garnishes by evenly slicing and pitting fruits.
- Created different mixing infusions to make each drink unique and custom.
- Showcased extensive knowledge of various cocktails, spirits, wine, and beer offerings, assisting guests in making informed choices.
- Maintained a clean and organized bar area, ensuring optimal working conditions for efficient service delivery.
River Deck Bar & Marina
Bartender
01.2023 - 08.2024
Job overview
- Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
- Mixed unique and interesting cocktails for customers, including bar specials.
- Managed cash handling duties responsibly, ensuring accurate accounting at the end of each shift.
- Performed opening and closing duties, printing sales reports, setting up for incoming shift, preparing cash drawers, and taking inventory.
- Developed loyal clientele by consistently delivering outstanding service and engaging in friendly conversation.
- Increased customer satisfaction by providing excellent service and crafting high-quality cocktails.
- Trained new bartenders on drink preparation, product promotion, garnish preparation, and sanitation protocol.
Self-employeed
Content Writer
01.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Managed competing deadlines with efficiency.
- Improved content quality by conducting thorough research and incorporating industry trends.
- Created content for websites and online publications.
- Edited and proofread drafts of articles and other documents.
- Utilized feedback from clients and colleagues to improve content quality.
- Edited and proofread content to confirm proper grammar, quality and consistency with AP style.
Miller's Ale House
Bartender
01.2018 - 01.2024
Job overview
- Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
- Managed cash handling duties responsibly, ensuring accurate accounting at the end of each shift.
- Efficiently opened or closed the bar according to established procedures, ensuring preparedness for each shift.
- Performed opening and closing duties, printing sales reports, setting up for incoming shift, preparing cash drawers, and taking inventory.
- Cultivated strong relationships with repeat customers, engaging in friendly conversation and memorizing drink orders to promote loyalty.
- Assisted with inventorying beverage stock and bar supplies.
- Assisted with staff training, sharing expertise in bartending techniques and customer service best practices.
- Mixed unique and interesting cocktails for customers, including bar specials.
Publix
Bakery Clerk
01.2016 - 11.2021
Job overview
- Balanced multiple tasks simultaneously during busy periods while still delivering exceptional customer service experiences.
- Checked expiration dates and rotated products to verify freshness and avoid spoilage.
- Maintained tidy and organized work area to comply with cleanliness standards.
- Stocked merchandise, clearly labeling items, and arranging according to size or color.
- Decorated and merchandised quality bakery goods to build business reputation and revenue base.
Education
Seminole State CollegeLake Mary, FL
Associate of Arts from Business
Valencia CollegeOrlando, FL
Associate of Arts from Communications
Skills
- Strong multitasking
- Customer service
- Highly reliable
- Team player attitude
- Outgoing personality
- Alcohol awareness
- Classic cocktails
- Creative mixology
- Food service
- Recipe and menu memorization
- Cash register operation
- Aloha POS
Accomplishments
- Streamlined a unique cocktail menu, resulting in higher sales and increased customer presence.
- Contributed to service that earned a stellar review in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
Certification
- ServSafe Alcohol - National Restaurant Association.
- Food Handler's Card or Permit - Various State Health Departments.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Content Writer
Self-employeed
01.2024 - Current
Bartender
River Deck Bar & Marina
01.2023 - 08.2024
Event Bartender
Self-employeed
01.2022 - Current
Bartender
Miller's Ale House
01.2018 - 01.2024
Bakery Clerk
Publix
01.2016 - 11.2021
Seminole State College
Associate of Arts from Business
Valencia College
Associate of Arts from Communications
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