Server resume example
A restaurant server's resume with the numbers a general manager knows — covers, check average, add-on sales — and the alcohol and food-handler cards a hiring manager checks first.
Invented for this page. The name, the employers and every number in it are made up — a real resume is somebody’s personal data and is not ours to publish.
Written for applications in the United States. The notes say what to change elsewhere.
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Jordan Reyes
jordan@example.com | (512) 555-0191 | Austin, TX
Summary
Server with four years in full-service restaurants, including two at a 180-seat steakhouse. TABC seller-server certified, with a current Texas food handler card.
Experience
Server
Mar 2024 – Present
Copper Oak Steakhouse, Austin, TX
Served 45 to 60 covers a night in a 6-table section, with a $94 check average against a house average of $81.
Raised dessert and after-dinner drink orders to 31% of tables by suggesting a pairing with each entrée, the highest rate on the floor in 2025.
Trained 9 new servers on the menu, the POS and wine service with a two-shift shadowing plan the manager now uses for every hire.
Server
Jan 2022 – Feb 2024
Lakeview Diner, Austin, TX
Ran 20 tables an hour at weekend brunch peaks on Toast POS, keeping average ticket times under 14 minutes.
Education
High School Diploma
Aug 2017 – May 2021
Barton Ridge High School, Austin, TX
Skills
Service: Fine dining service, Wine pairing, Large-party service, Upselling
Systems and cards: Toast POS, OpenTable, TABC seller-server, Texas food handler card
Why it is written this way
Covers and check average are a server's numbers
They show volume and selling, which is what a general manager is hiring for. “Provided excellent customer service” is on every application in the pile and proves nothing.
Cards go in the summary, with their state
A seller-server certification and a food handler card are required to work a shift, so they sit in the first lines where a manager screening for them will look.
Training new hires signals trust
Being asked to train new servers says the manager relies on you. It gets its own bullet, with a count and what changed because of it.
US conventions: Letter, city and state
No street address, photo or date of birth — US employers do not expect them. The page is set on Letter paper.
Shapes to fill in
Each blank is yours to complete. These are the same scaffolds the builder offers for this occupation — none of them says anything until you fill it in, which is what keeps them useful rather than a lie somebody else wrote.
Made something faster or cheaper
- Cut ___ from ___ to ___ by ___
- Reduced ___ by ___% by ___
- Removed ___ from ___, saving ___ per ___
- Automated ___, taking it from ___ of manual work to ___
Moved a commercial number
- Grew ___ from ___ to ___ in ___
- Won ___ accounts worth ___, including ___
- Lifted ___ by ___% by ___
- Retained ___ of ___ through ___
Led people or a programme
- Led ___ people through ___, delivering ___
- Hired and trained ___, of whom ___
- Coordinated ___ across ___ teams to ___
- Mentored ___, ___ of whom ___
Also called
Banquet Server · Banquet Waiter · Banquet Waitress · Bar Waiter · Bar Waitress · Buffet Server · Buffet Waiter · Buffet Waitress · Car Hop · Carhop
From the O*NET occupation database. Worth checking which of these a posting uses, because that is the wording its keyword search will be built on.
What a parser reads from this resume
This is the actual plain-text output for the document above — the same text an applicant tracking system extracts, and the same text this app hands you when you download the .txt. Nothing is lost between the page and the parser, which is the whole argument for a single column of real text.
Jordan Reyes jordan@example.com | (512) 555-0191 | Austin, TX SUMMARY Server with four years in full-service restaurants, including two at a 180-seat steakhouse. TABC seller-server certified, with a current Texas food handler card. EXPERIENCE Server | Mar 2024 - Present Copper Oak Steakhouse, Austin, TX - Served 45 to 60 covers a night in a 6-table section, with a $94 check average against a house average of $81. - Raised dessert and after-dinner drink orders to 31% of tables by suggesting a pairing with each entrée, the highest rate on the floor in 2025. - Trained 9 new servers on the menu, the POS and wine service with a two-shift shadowing plan the manager now uses for every hire. Server | Jan 2022 - Feb 2024 Lakeview Diner, Austin, TX - Ran 20 tables an hour at weekend brunch peaks on Toast POS, keeping average ticket times under 14 minutes. EDUCATION High School Diploma | Aug 2017 - May 2021 Barton Ridge High School, Austin, TX SKILLS Service: Fine dining service, Wine pairing, Large-party service, Upselling Systems and cards: Toast POS, OpenTable, TABC seller-server, Texas food handler card
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