WHEN YOU WORK AT OLIVE GARDEN, YOU'RE FAMILY

This is more than a phrase. It’s an expression of the spirit at Olive Garden we call Hospitaliano! – our passion for 100% guest delight. We want our guests to feel at home. So we invest a great deal in our team members and in a positive work environment. Here, management truly listens and cares. And we want all team members to succeed so we offer extensive training and self-development, flexible schedules, and most importantly, a place you can call home.

Olive Garden is an equal opportunity employer.

HOURLY RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES

Join Us! Olive Garden is a great place to work.
We have a fun, supportive work environment that makes you feel like part of a big family. There are opportunities to receive extensive training and development that will help you throughout your life.

We offer opportunities for advancement, as well. Need a flexible schedule? No problem. We’re interested in what works for you. Olive Garden is a place you can call home.

Host
Welcomes and entertains guests in a warm and friendly manner to provide a positive first impression of service. Offers the best seats to guests and works with team members in delivering 100% guest delight and a genuine Italian dining experience.

Server/Sales Person
Provides fast, personalized and efficient service by making all guests feel special; is a team player. Offers menu suggestions and delivers attractive, great tasting food to ensure 100% guest delight. Provides each guest with an genuine Italian dining experience.

Bartender
Provides fast, friendly and efficient service by making all guests feel special, by being a team player, by suggestively offering menu items to ensure 100% guest delight and providing each guest with an genuine Italian dining experience.

Line Cook
Broils/grills/fries and sautés each order by following standardized recipes. Ensures that proper food handling and sanitation procedures are being followed. Prepares attractive great tasting Italian food ensuring that all items on an order are completed at the same time, are visually appealing, and delivered hot in the window.

Preparation/Production/Backup
Thaws, bakes, portions, breads, prepares produce and proteins, and prepares food items necessary to meet daily business needs. Cooks food to make it great tasting and visually appealing by following standardized recipes.

Alley Coordinator
Coordinates delivery of attractive, great tasting Italian food at the proper temperature and time to all guests. Checks and garnishes plates from the line and ensures food is correct, cooked properly, and ready to serve.

Server Assistant/Busser
Ensures that the dining room, lobby and service areas are clean, stocked, and visually appealing. Works with managers and team members to provide smooth operation of the restaurant.

Utility/Dish Machine Operator
Cleans dining items and all restaurant areas to provide a sanitized and visually pleasing restaurant to guests and team members. Performs as a team member to provide a safe and hazard-free work environment. Performs maintenance on equipment to ensure proper performance and minimize repair costs.

MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Olive Garden managers rotate through three distinct roles. Upon graduation from our Manager-In-Training program, managers set the pace as leaders of the service, sales or culinary departments in one of our restaurants. After meeting leadership standards in one role, managers rotate to another role as part of their career development. Skill development continues in all three roles as our managers journey towards senior leadership positions.

Service Manager
Delights each guest by providing 100% Guest Delight service which, in turn, results in guests’ recommending Olive Garden to their friends. Focuses on delivering fresh, high quality, Italian food complemented by a great glass of wine in a comfortable home-like and Italian setting, welcomed by people who treat you like family. Creates an atmosphere in the restaurant that builds energy, vitality, and fun, generating excellent service ratings and positive “word of mouth.”

Selects and retains highly skilled service-oriented employees; models the Olive Garden principles. Motivates and retains them by providing ongoing training and development; models the Olive Garden principles. Regularly measures and evaluates service levels and standards using guest and employee feedback and develops plans for continuous improvement.

Culinary Manager
Provides leadership for the preparation of fresh, high quality, Italian food complemented by a great glass of wine in a comfortable, home-like and Italian setting, welcomed by people who treat you like family. Guarantees consistent planning, production, preparation, and prompt delivery of piping hot food. Creates an environment that builds energy, vitality, and fun, resulting in excellent food taste and temperature ratings.

Responsible for the efficient and successful execution of all culinary initiatives. Selects and trains highly skilled culinary employees and motivates and retains them by providing ongoing training and development. Continually develops culinary employees’ cooking, food preparation, food safety, food and wine pairing and sanitation skills to ensure the delivery of great tasting, piping hot food.

Sales Manager
Delights each guest through the delivery of a genuine Italian dining experience with fresh, high quality Italian food complemented by a great glass of wine in a comfortable, home-like, Italian setting, welcomed by people who treat you like family. Creates and fosters an environment in the restaurant that builds energy, vitality, and fun, resulting in positive “word of mouth”. Maintains a high level of motivation, encouraging and achieving sales improvements for each employee.

Selects, trains and retains highly skilled service-oriented and hospitality-focused employees. Conducts and coordinates ongoing training for employees and managers to develop food and beverage product knowledge and sales skills, focusing on food and wine pairing. Continually enhances food and beverage product knowledge and is regarded as the restaurant wine and alcohol beverage expert.