Restaurant Busser

Why us?

Belle & Grey is an independent, luxury restaurant located at the center of the action, at The Hotel Landing just steps from the shores of Lake Minnetonka in beautiful Wayzata, MN. Belle & Grey is a lakeside dining room where generations gather, meals linger, and good stories get better. We strive to create a place where everyone—families, friends, and first-time guests alike—feels at home. With seasonal, locally inspired menus and thoughtfully curated beverages, Belle & Grey delivers an elevated dining experience with signature Midwestern hospitality. As much a community gathering place as a restaurant, there’s always something happening here—from private dining and curated events to specialty menus and seasonal celebrations. 

 

Belle & Grey is part of Sage Restaurant Concepts, a family of seasoned restaurateurs committed to consistently crafting exceptional experiences that forge a bond with our guests, enrich our communities, and empower our people. We create industry-leading restaurant and bar concepts with soul for the people who live, work, and play in the communities we serve. 

 

Throughout our portfolio, it rings true that we believe in the power of impacting lives through hospitality and work daily to fulfill that endeavor. We seek the best hospitality professionals—achievers and leaders; passionate, highly competitive, and exceptional people. In return, we provide every team member with unparalleled opportunities to exercise their responsibility and integrity while growing themselves and building a valuable and rewarding career! 

Job Overview

The Busser at Belle & Grey supports the dining room team by maintaining a polished, seamless, and welcoming environment in a luxury restaurant setting. Belle & Grey is a lakeside dining room where generations gather, meals linger, and good stories get better. The busser plays an essential behind-the-scenes role in ensuring each guest’s experience feels effortless, attentive, and thoughtfully paced.

 

This position is responsible for maintaining cleanliness and organization of dining areas, supporting servers and bartenders, and anticipating the needs of both guests and the service team. The Busser contributes to an atmosphere where families, friends, and first-time guests alike feel comfortable and cared for, upholding the high standards of service, teamwork, and hospitality that define the Belle & Grey experience.

Responsibilities

• Clears all used tableware, napkins and refuse from tables to tubs in bus station and wipes table, chairs and clears debris and crumbs from floor areas surrounding table.
• Resets tables in accordance with established standards in order to seat new customers as quickly as possible. Removes full tubs from bus stations to dishwashing area for cleaning, and maintains a clean, well-stocked and orderly bus station at all times in order to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Retrieves cleaned dishes, glassware and utensils from the dish room and distributes to each service station in order to keep a ready supply available for restaurant use.
• Sweeps restaurant floors throughout shift to maintain a clean, presentable and attractive restaurant.
• Retrieves requisitioned items from stockroom, ensuring requisition is complete and correct, and stocking supplies in proper places, rotating stock at all times.
• Assists waitstaff by refilling customers beverages and accommodating requests for additional condiments, food items or clean/fresh tableware.
• Keeps ice stations filled at all times by carrying buckets of ice from the main ice machine and pouring into individual ice stations.
• Maintains a friendly, cheerful and courteous demeanor at all times.
• Performs other duties as assigned, requested or deemed necessary by management.

Qualifications

Education/Formal Training

None

 

Experience

None

 

Knowledge/Skills

• Must have basic knowledge of restaurant operations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying up to 50 lbs to include serving trays, carts, tables, chairs, and small equipment up to 75% of the time.
• Balancing, stooping kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching handling, fingering throughout the shift.
• Mobility -full range of mobility and the ability to travel up to 300 feet on a regular basis throughout the shift.
• Continuous standing -during preparation, during service h