Restaurant Server-Memory Center

Overview

🍽️ Restaurant Server (Part-Time)

✅ Must be 18+ to apply

⚾ Home Plate BBQ Restaurant at the Brand New Marlin & Doris Thomas Memory Center

Join our founding team at the Memory Center! Start dates for these positions are anticipated between December 2026 and January 2027.

Willow Valley Communities | Lancaster, PA

Serve Great Food. Create Meaningful Moments. Change Lives.

At Willow Valley Communities, we're doing more than opening a new restaurant. We're helping transform the way dementia is viewed, understood, and experienced through the opening of the Marlin & Doris Thomas Memory Center.

As a Restaurant Server at Home Plate, our new BBQ restaurant located within the Memory Center, you'll provide exceptional service while helping create a welcoming dining experience for Residents, families, guests, and Team Members. Every interaction is an opportunity to bring joy, dignity, and connection to those we serve.

If you have a passion for hospitality, enjoy working with people, and want your work to have a meaningful impact, we'd love to meet you.

Why Willow Valley Communities?

Join us and be part of something bigger than a job. Help us redefine hospitality, support innovative dementia care, and make a difference every day.

Our Team Members enjoy the following benefits!

💵 Weekly Pay-get paid every Friday!

🏖️ PTO-plus enjoy an extra day off to celebrate your birthday!

🏋🏼‍♀️ Access to outstanding campus amenities, including a gym, indoor pool, and more🎓 Tuition reimbursement and scholarship opportunities🎉 Team Member events and recognition programsAnd so much more!

Position Details

• Part-Time
  • 3:30 PM-9:00 PM (closing time varies based on business needs)
• Schedule could vary and may include:
  • Weekends
  • Holidays
• Pay: $8.00/hour+ based on experience, plus tips

What You'll Do

• Provide prompt, courteous service to Residents and guests
• Greet guests, escort them to tables, and present menus
• Take food and beverage orders and enter them into our POS system
• Memorize menu items and ingredients and make recommendations
• Deliver food and beverages in a timely and professional manner
• Clear and reset tables throughout service
• Assist with banquet and special event service as needed
• Complete side work, cleaning assignments, and stocking duties
• Follow food safety, sanitation, and safe handling procedures
• Collaborate with fellow Team Members to ensure an outstanding dining experience
• Assist in kitchen or dish room operations when needed

What We're Looking For

• Some prior restaurant or food service experience preferred
• A positive, friendly, and enthusiastic attitude
• Excellent customer service and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Professional appearance and demeanor
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced restaurant environment

Apply Today!

Come be part of the opening team at Home Plate BBQ Restaurant and help us create memorable dining experiences while changing the conversation around dementia care.

Willow Valley Communities Where exceptional service meets meaningful purpose.

Willow Valley Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.