Tyler Clark
Bartender
Prior Lake,MN
Summary
Experienced bartender seeking a position to engage with individuals and utilize professional skills. Committed to providing exceptional customer service and creating a welcoming atmosphere. Skilled in crafting a wide range of beverages and maintaining a clean and organized bar area. Strong communication and multitasking abilities to create memorable experiences for patrons.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Bartender / Cook
Eagles Club F.O.H. 3208
03.2023 - 05.2024
- Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
- 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.
- Efficiently opened or closed the bar according to established procedures, ensuring preparedness for each shift.
- Maintained a clean and organized workspace, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
- Kept bar presentable and well-stocked to meet customer needs.
- Increased customer satisfaction by providing excellent service and crafting high-quality cocktails.
- Followed alcohol awareness procedures for preventing excessive guest intoxication.
- Reduced wait times for drinks by efficiently managing the bar area and prioritizing orders.
- Trained new bartenders on drink preparation, product promotion, garnish preparation, and sanitation protocol.
- Organized bar inventory and storage procedures to keep stock within optimal levels and meet expected customer demands.
- Handled simultaneous customer, team, and business needs while avoiding unnecessary delays or errors.
- Adhered to state laws regarding alcoholic beverage services and customer regulations.
- Supported special events through attentive service, adapting quickly to varying needs of guests or clients.
- Obtained cash bank and stocked service bar to prepare for operation.
- Increased repeat customer numbers, creating welcoming atmosphere and remembering regulars' favorite drinks.
- Adapted to fast-paced environment, effectively managing multiple drink orders simultaneously without compromising quality.
- Handled cash and card transactions accurately, reducing discrepancies and balancing till at end of each shift.
- Resolved customer complaints with empathy and professionalism, turning potentially negative experiences into positive ones.
- Enhanced customer experience with engaging conversations and personalized drink recommendations.
- Trained new staff on bar procedures, cocktail recipes, and customer service standards, ensuring consistent service quality.
- Verified drinking age requirements of customers by carefully reviewing photo identification.
- Managed bar inventory, restocked supplies and placed orders for spirits, beer, wines, and mixers.
- Food preparation, Dinner cook, food orders, cleaned and maintained kitchen
Bartender/ Bar Manager
Day Block Brewery
07.2022 - 03.2023
- Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
- 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.
- Efficiently opened or closed the bar according to established procedures, ensuring preparedness for each shift.
- Mixology specialist
Event Coordinator/ Bartender/ Server
David Fongs
01.2003 - 08.2022
- Event coordinator/ bartender
- Texas Holden Director - alcohol sales, mixing drinks, beer service, customer service, E-tab sales, food sales, inventory, cash handling, customer service, handle customer complaints.
Bartender
Target Center
07.2019 - 01.2020
- Bartender- Handled money, inventory, alcohol sales.
Co-owner
King of spades poker
01.2014 - 01.2020
- Co-owner- Hosted the Texas Holden bar poker league. Performed marketing, bookkeeping, sales, hire and fire function. Along with teach new players how to play Texas Holden.
Shift leader /Cook/Server /Bartender/ Poker director
American legion
03.2016 - 01.2018
- Shift leader /Cook/Server /Bartender/ Poker director which entailed food and alcohol sales, customer service, inventory, money management, bookkeeping and cooking.
Assistant Kitchen Manager
Perkins Family Restaurant
02.2015 - 01.2015
- Assistant Kitchen Manager – Food inventory, place orders, create schedules, manage employees, prep food and cook.
Server/Host Manager
Champps Americana Restaurant
07.2011 - 07.2014
- Server/Host Manager – Carry out end of day closing duties, orders and inventory. Responsibilities also include cooking, hosting, coordinating events, serving and bartending. Manage front/back of the house along with interviewing and hiring new hosts/servers. Writing schedules for hosts and servers
Assistant General Manager
IHOP Restaurant
04.2009 - 02.2012
- Assistant General Manager - Greeted customers; suggested items from the menu to help improve sales, cleaned tables and expoed food. Aided other servers when the restaurant was busy and continued to maintain customer satisfaction. Took inventory, processed payroll, scheduled and managed front and back of the house staff, handled complaints. Counted money in the safe/drawers, cooked on the line, opened and closed the store along with running credit card batches and provided end of day reports.
Marketing Manager
Erbert & Gerbert’s Subs and Clubs
08.2008 - 03.2009
- Marketing Manager- Contacted local business and schools to organize catering services. In charge of organizing fundraisers for local benefits, supervised other employees in the store. Greeted customers, took inventory, answered phones and took food orders.
Server
Apple Bees Restaurant
09.2007 - 07.2008
- Server - Greeted customers; suggested items off of the menu to help improve sales, clean tables and expo food. Assisted other servers when restaurant was busy and continued to maintain customer satisfaction.
Trainer for Poker Tournament, Sales/Director Coordinator and Management
World Poker Store
07.2005 - 10.2007
- Trainer for Poker Tournament, Sales/Director Coordinator and Management - Oversaw Poker Tournaments in bars and casinos all over the state of Minnesota. Trained in new tournament directors and handled sales for new accounts. Managed 35 tournament directors and 110 bars holding tournaments. Created new business through organizing fund raisers with businesses and celebrities.
Server/Lead Trainer
Ruby Tuesdays Restaurant
06.2001 - 04.2003
- Server/Lead Trainer - Served tables, trained new hires on the menu and procedures. Trained service staff to help enhance customer service and increase profits through suggestive selling.
Host
Sidney's Pizza Café
09.2000 - 04.2001
- Host - Greeted and seated guests. Coordinate table rotations for wait staff.
Night/Bakery Manager
Perkins Family Restaurant
07.1997 - 09.1999
- Night/Bakery Manager - Managed 22 shift associates including wait staff, hosts, bussers and cooks. Responsible for making, sales and the counter displays for the bakery. Developed and oversaw a bakery program to help increase sales. Accomplished by creating an ongoing partnership with businesses to provide bakery goods for their company meetings and special events. Created the server and host schedules, made food orders and counted inventory. Trained new servers, hosts and shift leaders plus handled daily end of shift reports and money management. Promoted guest satisfaction for steady repeat business.
Education
Sound Arts
MCTC
Minneapolis, MN01.2009
Broadcasting
Brown Institute
Apple Valley, MN01.1997
Edina High School
Edina, MN06.1996
Skills
- Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken)
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to motivate staff to higher achievement
- Outstanding customer relation skills
- Exceptional ability to perform basic math, including calculation of fractions, percent’s/ratios, read technical information, compose a variety of documents, facilitate group discussions and resolve real-world obstacles
- Problem solving ability to analyze issues, create a plan of action and reach/influence solutions in a timely manner
- Knowledge of pertinent codes, policies, regulations/laws, food safety and handling procedures
- Mastery use of the Internet
- Vast drink knowledge
- Have Tips alcohol certification till 2027
Certification
Tips On-Premise Alcohol Server Training
Timeline
Bartender / Cook
Eagles Club F.O.H. 3208
03.2023 - 05.2024
Bartender/ Bar Manager
Day Block Brewery
07.2022 - 03.2023
Bartender
Target Center
07.2019 - 01.2020
Shift leader /Cook/Server /Bartender/ Poker director
American legion
03.2016 - 01.2018
Assistant Kitchen Manager
Perkins Family Restaurant
02.2015 - 01.2015
Co-owner
King of spades poker
01.2014 - 01.2020
Server/Host Manager
Champps Americana Restaurant
07.2011 - 07.2014
Assistant General Manager
IHOP Restaurant
04.2009 - 02.2012
Marketing Manager
Erbert & Gerbert’s Subs and Clubs
08.2008 - 03.2009
Server
Apple Bees Restaurant
09.2007 - 07.2008
Trainer for Poker Tournament, Sales/Director Coordinator and Management
World Poker Store
07.2005 - 10.2007
Event Coordinator/ Bartender/ Server
David Fongs
01.2003 - 08.2022
Server/Lead Trainer
Ruby Tuesdays Restaurant
06.2001 - 04.2003
Host
Sidney's Pizza Café
09.2000 - 04.2001
Night/Bakery Manager
Perkins Family Restaurant
07.1997 - 09.1999
Sound Arts
MCTC
Broadcasting
Brown Institute
Edina High School
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