The GOODS from Quails’ Gate Winery

West Kelowna, BC | Located in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, Quails’ Gate’s Old Vines Restaurant offers an excellent venue to build a career in the culinary arts. Open year-round, opportunities exist for development and gaining knowledge of pairing wines with the bounty of Okanagan products. Our belief in farm to table cookery marries well with our family business values and philosophy. Members of the Quails’ Gate team are well respected and viewed as some of the most talented in the wine and hospitality industry. Quails’ Gate fosters a positive and supportive work environment, ensuring each team member has the tools needed to succeed.

Right now, the restaurant is gearing up for the summer season. It currently has openings for Fine Dining Servers, a Restaurant Service Manager, Sous Chefs, and an Office Administrator. Learn more about the winery, the restaurant, and each of the positions available after the jump…

Send applications to Melody McLorie | Human Resources, [email protected]

FINE DINING SERVERS

We are seeking ambassadors to welcome our guests to Old Vines Restaurant and guide them through an incredible fine dining culinary and wine experience. Servers are responsible for offering menu suggestions, wine pairing, and communicating all dietary requests and allergies in an effective manner to the Culinary Brigade. Servers are to ensure guests leave Old Vines Restaurant completely satisfied and eager to return.

Applicants must have previous experience serving in a fast paced, restaurant setting, with above average wine knowledge, WSET Level2 or equivalent. Fine dining experience preferred, technical service and wine service skills required. Above average food knowledge and general cooking techniques knowledge is required.

Applicants must have natural communication skills and a genuine desire to please our guests. Please note: this position is a full time, casual position.

If you are seeking a position with a dynamic winery that is intent on establishing itself as Canada’s leading premium brand, please forward your resume with covering letter to: Human Resources | [email protected]

SEASONAL RESTAURANT OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

This position will be responsible for completing and submit daily cash outs, administrational tasks such as payroll, menu printing, file organization and comment cards. The Office Administrator will also administer the tip pool system, respond to guest inquiries, telephone & email reservations, and prepare daily, weekly, monthly sales and labor tracking reports. This position will report to both Service Manager and Culinary Director and work on tasks related to both front of house service and back of house culinary functions.

The ideal candidate must have 1-2 years previous food & beverage experience with a preference given to server or floor experience, if not in a similar administrational role. They must have strong organizational and administration skills and have a natural passion for customer service and practice an exacting attention to detail. This position is available April through mid-October.

RESTAURANT SERVICE MANAGER

We are seeking a talented individual to join our team in the role of Old Vines Restaurant Service Manager reporting to the Culinary Director/Winery Chef.

The Service Manager will be responsible for the front of house service team; Servers, Hosts, Bussers and Management team of Old Vines Restaurant. In collaboration with the Culinary Director/Winery Chef, the Service Manager will ensure each guest receives an excellent experience while visiting Old Vines Restaurant. The Service Manager will further be responsible for leading the front of house management team of Old Vines Restaurant and ensuring we achieve Quails’ Gates operational and financial goals.

Our successful applicant will be a natural leader and have an acute passion for customer service. The candidate must also thrive in high pressure situations and have the ability to multi-task and take initiative. They must have previous hands-on technical service experience in a fine dining setting and be detail orientated and posses a positive ‘can do’ attitude. Previous experience in a Winery restaurant an asset but not required however an advanced knowledge of Food , Wine and Spirits is required.

Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years of leadership experience, preferably in a fine dining setting and posses an understanding of brand awareness, budgeting, planning, and be proficient with computers and technology, including POS systems. Applicants must have the ability to work a flexible schedule such as weekends, holidays and varied shifts based on business volumes.

SEASONAL SOUS CHEFS

For the upcoming 2014 Season we are seeking two experienced, energetic and passionate individuals to join our culinary team as Seasonal Sous Chefs. Our successful candidates will assume the support position and run the kitchen in the absence of the Executive Sous Chef and Culinary Director/Winery Chef. They will supervise the daily, nightly or special events activity of the kitchen and aide in menu planning and development, while maintaining standards of quality, cost, appeal, and flavor of the foods.

Applicants should have successfully completed a formal chef training program & have their Inter Provincial Red Seal, along with the Food Safe Level 2 Certificate. They should also have a minimum of 2+ years of experience cooking, preferably in fine dining establishments in a leadership position and demonstrate excellent saucier skills and complete understanding of meat and fish butchery.

Details

3303 Boucherie Road, West Kelowna, BC | Canada
Telephone: 250.769.4451 | 1.800.420.9463
Web: quailsgate.com | Facebook | Twitter

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The People

Proprietor: The Stewart Family
Chief Operations Officer: Tyler Galts
Winery Chef: Roger Sleiman
Winemaker: Nikki Callaway

Members of the Quails’ Gate team are well respected and viewed as some of the most talented in the wine and hospitality industry, making their mark as innovative and knowledgeable leaders. By having been provided many opportunities for development, our staff strive for personal achievement and development. The Stewart family ensures that the best skills in the business are recruited, developed and retained. Winery staff feel that they work for the best winery in the country.

About Quail’s Gate

THE WINE

As one of Canada’s foremost family owned and operated estate wine producers, Quails’ Gate is internationally recognized as a top quality producer of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Quails’ Gate wines are premium and terroir focused. The entire portfolio of Quails’ Gate wines is consistently endorsed by wine experts as one of Canada’s most outstanding.

THE DESTINATION

Not only is Quails’ Gate one of Canada’s foremost wine country destinations, it is also internationally and nationally recognized as a premier agri-tourism destination. Having been provided with a friendly, sophisticated and educational wine and culinary experience, visitors return again and again. The Quails’ Gate onsite experience is most relaxing and welcoming. Onsite hospitality staff are among the most professional, friendly and knowledgeable in matters of wine and food in the country.

THE SITE

The facility and grounds of our vineyards reflect the premium quality of Quails’ Gate wines. The care and attention to detail given to the vineyard and winery landscape echo the attention to detail given to all other areas of the company. Quails’ Gate continues to be a leader in advanced viticulture practices, placing the Stewart family’s vineyards among the most prized grape growing sites for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and other focused varietals in North America.

OLD VINES RESTAURANT

An all season culinary destination, Old Vines Restaurant & Wine Bar is an exceptional vineyard side location on the slopes of the Boucherie Mountain Bench. Guests are warmly welcomed in our must visit West Kelowna site with expansive and picturesque southern views of Lake Okanagan.

Chef Roger Sleiman offers menus with ingredients sourced from surrounding fields and pastures, our kitchen garden and regional British Columbia farms all paired perfectly with our Estate Wines.

Old Vines Restaurant at Quails’ Gate highlights the abundant resources of the Okanagan Valley, harmoniously matched with gracious service, breathtaking views and sublime wines. A long leisurely sunset dinner, al fresco bistro lunch or small bites and wine flights in our Wine Bar in summer or Fireside Lounge in winter, Old Vines Restaurant is the perfect location for dinner, light luncheons, mid afternoon grazing or après work sipping.

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