Restaurant host/restaurant hostess to club host/club hostess
A restaurant host/restaurant hostess already meets 50% of what the club host/club hostess role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.
48/ 100
1 How much of what a club host/club hostess is expected to do is already part of a restaurant host/restaurant hostess’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the club host/club hostess role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A club host/club hostess role treats 6 of its required skills as things a restaurant host/restaurant hostess already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- assist VIP guests
- assist customers
- assist guest departure
- handle customer complaints
- maintain customer service
- maintain relationship with customers
What stands in the way is 5 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A club host/club hostess role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a restaurant host/restaurant hostess background worth leading with.
- already held accommodate special seating assisting and caring
- already held assist VIP guests assisting and caring
- already held assist guest departure assisting and caring
- already held arrange tables assisting and caring
- already held advise guests on menus for special events communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held take food and beverage orders from customers communication, collaboration and creativity
All 13 carried skills, including the 6 the club host/club hostess role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 15 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors required
- still to learn deal with aggressive behaviour required
- still to learn greet guests required
- still to learn monitor guest access required
- optional, not held assist at check-in optional
- optional, not held check tickets at venue entry optional
- optional, not held prepare alcoholic beverages optional
- optional, not held prepare mixed beverages optional
- optional, not held serve beverages optional
- optional, not held tend to guests with special needs optional
- optional, not held control crowd optional
- still to learn handle veterinary emergencies required
- optional, not held beverage products optional
- optional, not held alcoholic beverage products optional
- optional, not held handle cash flow optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a club host/club hostess role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors practise this
- 02 deal with aggressive behaviour practise this
- 03 greet guests practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 13 skills that carry over
- already held assist VIP guests skill
- already held assist customers skill
- already held assist guest departure skill
- already held handle customer complaints skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held maintain relationship with customers skill
- already held accommodate special seating skill
- already held advise guests on menus for special events skill
- already held arrange tables skill
- already held clean surfaces skill
- already held devise special promotions skill
- already held process reservations skill
- already held take food and beverage orders from customers skill
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assist at check-in optional
- optional, not held beverage products optional
- optional, not held check tickets at venue entry optional
- optional, not held prepare alcoholic beverages optional
- optional, not held prepare mixed beverages optional
- optional, not held serve beverages optional
- optional, not held tend to guests with special needs optional
- optional, not held alcoholic beverage products optional
- optional, not held control crowd optional
- optional, not held handle cash flow optional
7 held skills the club host/club hostess role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assist clients with special needs skill
- not needed by the target role check dining room cleanliness skill
- not needed by the target role comply with food safety and hygiene skill
- not needed by the target role present menus skill
- not needed by the target role seat customers according to the waiting list skill
- not needed by the target role welcome restaurant guests skill
- not needed by the target role work in a hospitality team skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held beverage products optional
- optional, not held alcoholic beverage products optional
Other moves recorded from restaurant host/restaurant hostess
Common questions about this move
Can a restaurant host/restaurant hostess become a club host/club hostess?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A restaurant host/restaurant hostess already covers 50% of what a club host/club hostess is expected to do: 13 skills carry over, 6 of which the club host/club hostess role treats as required.
What skills does a restaurant host/restaurant hostess need to become a club host/club hostess?
5 required skills are missing, plus 10 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors.
How hard is the move from restaurant host/restaurant hostess to club host/club hostess?
Its learning distance is 48 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.