Waiter – Abu Dhabi | Novikov Abu Dhabi

Company Overview:

Novikov Abu Dhabi is a premier, highly successful luxury culinary brand, elite fine dining enterprise, and leading international hospitality hospitality group expanding its high-performance service operations core in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Built upon world-class gastronomic service parameters, strict food hygiene regulations, and progressive customer relations frameworks, the organization operates high-volume premium culinary spaces, directs prestigious guest service environments, and ensures absolute corporate compliance with Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) codes, regional tourism guidelines, and luxury global hospitality benchmarks.

Job Description:

We are executing a strategic professional appointment within our central front-of-house operations division and are seeking an energetic, service-oriented Waiter to govern floor guest dining pipelines and direct premium tableside service pathways in Abu Dhabi. Configured for systematic hospitality professionals who possess a deep operational command of premium menu presentation and excel at executing flawless floor workflows under intense culinary pressure, this full-time track focuses on accelerating order delivery cycles, tracking customer preference metrics, and maximizing overall guest satisfaction ratings under our unified restaurant management framework.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Welcome international patrons enthusiastically and deliver professional, highly attentive culinary service steps throughout their fine dining journey.
• Record guest food and beverage selections meticulously, ensuring complete operational accuracy and efficient system inputs.
• Serve luxury multi-course dishes and premium beverages perfectly according to established high-end brand hospitality metrics.
• Maintain a flawless, deeply organized, and visually pristine dining floor environment across assigned service stations.
• Assist patrons confidently with detailed menu interpretations, listing ingredient components, flavor paths, and culinary recommendations.
• Coordinate continuously with back-of-house kitchen squads and bar teams to guarantee punctual, seamless dish distribution.
• Monitor guest comfort indicators proactively, resolve customer requests instantly, and implement refined service recovery methods when needed.
• Enforce absolute compliance with strict corporate quality, food handling safety regulations, and global sanitation metrics.

🔹 Requirements:

• High School Diploma or a matching vocational trade certificate in Hospitality Operations or Food and Beverage Service is preferred.
• Proven professional operational history handling a service desk or dining floor portfolio, explicitly running high-touch customer workflows inside a fine dining restaurant, luxury resort, or highly competitive fast-paced culinary environment.
• Advanced foundational data literacy with practical capability inputting point-of-sale (POS) terminal datasets, checking inventory tracking screens, and organizing event configurations inside digital shift summaries.
• Deep, comprehensive operational knowledge across the following primary functional dimensions:
  • Premium food and beverage service techniques, luxury fine dining etiquette, silver service layouts, and sequence-of-service parameters.
  • Guest relations etiquette, active consumer feedback management, table mapping, and luxury hospitality standards.
  • Menu presentation mechanics, ingredient allergen identification, food pairing concepts, and accurate order capture steps.
  • HACCP guidelines, industrial kitchen synchronization protocols, and safe health and safety compliance metrics.
• Outstanding team-focused behaviors, strict attention to appearance and service detail, a polished verbal demeanor, a positive learning mindset, and full linguistic command of the English language.

What We Offer:

• Competitive baseline fixed salary package structured from AED 4,000 to 5,000, determined entirely by past culinary portfolio defenses, live tableside etiquette simulations, and guest-handling scenario interviews.
• An elite opportunity to gain immediate operational exposure within one of the region’s most prestigious and celebrated luxury dining destinations.
• Stable career advancement pipelines supported by active brand menu developments and clear internal paths for station captains, head waiters, or specialists moving toward floor operations or corporate hr jobs and hospitality recruitment networks.