Job Overview

Rough & Tumble has a rare opportunity to join our bar and serving team! Now hiring one to two experienced bartender-servers to join our awesome bar squad. Top candidates will be fun, kind, dependable, detail-oriented, creative, collaborative, love creating community with our guests, and have a passion for great customer service and quality drinks in a high-volume and fast-paced environment.
Voted Best Sports Bar & Best New Restaurant by Seattle Met and Seattle Times/Best in the PNW (among others) and recently highlighted by Vogue and Eater National, R&T is a beloved home for sports fans, community, and families alike.
What you bring:

  • A happy, extroverted, generous, and welcoming personality that loves hospitality, people, and creating exceptional, authentic experiences for guests
  • Possess a well-honed ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and appreciates a high-volume role that's full of energy and happy patrons
  • Bartenders must possess possess a minimum of 5 years bartending in a high-volume environment with a wide array of cocktails and drink types at the ready. Enjoyment of cocktail development and bar program involvement a plus
  • Serving experience a must as bartenders at R&T also share in serving outside the bar
  • Flexible, adjustable, and creative with a great sense of humor while being able to multi-task and manage competing priorities on a busy floor with ease
  • Value self-direction and team-oriented approach
  • Athletes and sports fans strongly encouraged to apply
  • Must be available for both weekends and evening shifts and available approx. 30-35 hours per week over 3-5 shifts
  • Physical stamina to withstand a full shift on your feet
  • Valid Washington Food Handler's permit and a MAST class 12 certification required

What We Offer

  • $18/hr PLUS tip pool (recent average analysis is $44.50-$51 per hour combined)
  • Fun, kind, thoughtful team, and a positive work environment with stellar customers who love our vibe, team, and what we do
  • Shift meals and drink, off-shift employee discounts for food and beverage
  • Sick and safe pay
  • PTO for eligible employees
  • Merch discounts
  • Woman-owned, equity-and equality-focused company

About Us Rough & Tumble is Seattle's first-ever pub to prioritize women's sports on our screens and sound. We are 100% woman-owned and are a place that is welcoming, fun, and enjoyable for all fans of all sports, regardless of gender. We're investing in women athletes/sports and we're passionate sports fans, period. We show the Seattle Reign, Seattle Storm, and UW women's sports just as we show the Kraken, Mariners, Sounders, Seahawks, and everything in between. Beyond just games, we are a welcoming and inclusive space for stellar brunches, late night dining, and have the best terrace/deck in all of Ballard, if we do say so ourselves.
Equal Employment Opportunity Rough & Tumble embraces diversity and equal opportunity actively and openly. Rough & Tumble is itself a place of comfort, acceptance, fun, and, most importantly, belonging. Rough & Tumble prohibits unlawful harassment of its employees, applicants, or independent contractors in any form. We make our employment decisions on a non-discriminatory basis, and without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or identity, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.

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