Bartender

ABOUT OUR RESTAURANT

Mack's Bingo Kitchen is an approachable American restaurant that utilizes seasonal ingredients from our organic farm and other nearby farms and purveyors. Our restaurant serves as a learning opportunity for our Junior Crew (local Appalachian Youth participating in our program) to engage with all aspects of the restaurant operations to provide a well-rounded experience in the hospitality industry. Youth have opportunities to work in the kitchen preparing and cooking, as well as on the dining room floor, supporting roles including hosting, serving, and interacting with our guests.

As a social enterprise, Mack's Bingo Kitchen provides a well-rounded hospitality experience for local youth to complement the opportunities offered in our farm, market, bakery, and glass studio. It also provides a casual, approachable, yet exceptional experience for the community through food, drink, and hospitality.

We are looking for a skilled, curious, and genuinely hospitality-driven bartender to help bring the Mack's Bingo bar program to life - someone who sees the bar as both a craft and a connection point, and who finds real meaning in the experience they create for every guest who pulls up a seat.

This role is central to who we are at Mack's Bingo. You will own the bar program and work closely with our front-of-house team to deliver an experience that reflects everything we care about - a whiskey-forward, seasonally driven cocktail program rooted in Appalachia, thoughtfully sourced ingredients, and the kind of genuine hospitality that turns first-time guests into regulars. You bring knowledge, warmth, and consistency to every pour, every shift.

Our bar program is delicious, whiskey-forward, and seasonally driven - rooted in Appalachia and approachable, but always thoughtful. We build our cocktail program around the same values that drive our kitchen: local ingredients, seasonal awareness, and genuine craft. We are not trying to be something we are not - we are trying to be exactly what this community deserves.

Beyond the bar, this role carries a real mentorship dimension. You will work alongside Junior Crew members and server staff, helping to build a beverage culture grounded in curiosity, high standards, and genuine pride in the craft. You set the tone - in the way you build a cocktail, engage a guest, and show up every day.

This position reports to the Front-of-House Manager.

• Hospitality-Forward Mindset:
  You make people feel welcome, seen, and important. You're not a gatekeeper-you're an agent of possibility. You don't default to "no," but instead ask, "how can we turn this into a yes?" with people across all roles and backgrounds.
• Curiosity and a Learning Mindset:
  You approach your work with genuine eagerness to grow. You receive feedback with care and openness, and you actively look for ways to get better - your technique, and the way you connect with guests and teammates.. You see every shift as an opportunity to improve.
• Bar Knowledge & Storytelling:
  You know your way around whiskey, spirits, wine, and cocktails - and you love talking about what is in the glass. You can speak to our cocktail program, our spirit selections, and our local ingredients in a way that feels natural, informed, and genuinely enthusiastic. Our bar program is whiskey-forward and seasonally driven, and you bring those values to every drink you build and every conversation you have at the bar.
• Attention to Detail:
  You notice what others miss - and you act on it. You hold yourself to a high standard in everything from table presentation to order accuracy, and you take quiet pride in the small things that make a big difference in the guest experience. You don't just notice what's off - you fix…