Seth Kafila

The Lot is a high end restaurant with a movie theater in the same building. In the last year the company rebranded the restaurant to Zentrl where they focused on finer dining and private events for large companies that would buy us out. Despite being a nice restaurant, the Lot is also a movie theater which means that the bartenders are responsible for both the dining experience and making drinks for every seat in the movie theaters. I have worked mini bars, private events bartending, fast paced bartender, slower but high attention customer service, and I open the restaurant throughout the week by taking all the tables and running the bar while also being responsible for drinks in the movie theater all at the same time. This is not a regular job responsibility at Zentrl, I was put in a unique situation as a highly skilled and flexible bartender that they would let me run the restaurant by myself and in 2024 I won Employee of the Year.

This was my first job as a lead bartender. I got a lot of experience being really busy and being the only person behind the bar to make every drink in the restaurant at night and when I worked in the morning I would take all the tables and cover the bar. This is where I really learned to multi task positions and take on the responsibility as the representative and leader in the front of house position.

I started off here bussing tables and working the chip station until I got promoted to barback which I worked for the bulk of my time here. In the last few months I got my opportunity serving and earned my bartending experience that I was able to translate into a full time bartender at my next job. This job taught me the most about working behind a bar and how to work in high volume, high stress situations because we were a prime location in downtown Tampa and were positioned next to the hockey stadium.

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I started off at my previous position at Outback as a delivery driver and worked in the to-go room. As the most experienced and qualified person at my position I quickly was promoted to the Off Premises Coordinator which is essential a To-Go manager.

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