Server resume tips
A server resume should name the dining room and the steps of service you were trusted to run. A counter, a brunch floor, and a coursed dinner are different jobs. Allergies, the point-of-sale, and whether you sold wine or cocktails belong only if that was your section. This page is about the dining room, not a computer server.
What to put first
Name the style of service and your shift. Say whether you carried a full section, ran food, or supported a lead server. If you handled allergies or a bar list, give that its own line rather than folding it into "guest experience."
The steps you owned
Greeting, order, fire, and check are separate. Write the ones you did. A runner who did not take the order should not describe the section as theirs.
Allergies and the board
If you called allergies to the kitchen and checked the plate, say so. If the kitchen led that and you only repeated a note, say that. Do not claim a certification you do not hold.
Money, carefully
If you closed checks on the point-of-sale and handled cash or cards, say the tool and the tender. Do not quote a sales contest or a tip figure you should not publish or cannot explain.
An example line
Adapt this only where it is true for you. It is a shape for a bullet, not a claim that a particular person did this work.
Carried a section on a coursed dinner: took the order, fired courses with the kitchen, called allergies before the plate left the pass, and closed checks on the house system.
What to leave off
Leave off a wine list you were not allowed to sell, a fine-dining claim for a counter job, and guest stories with names. Leave off "people person" in place of the steps.
Questions
- Should I mention tips or sales?
- Not as a boast, and not as a figure you cannot explain. The section and the steps tell a manager where to place you.
- What if I was a busser or a host?
- Use that title. Those jobs have their own evidence. Do not retitle them as serving a section.