American Girl Restaurant Party Planner

1 Week ago • Upto 2 Years • Events

Job Summary

Job Description

The American Girl Restaurant Party Planner is a part-time role at the Los Angeles retail location, reporting to the Restaurant Manager. Responsibilities include planning and executing magical events for guests, ensuring exceptional customer service, and maintaining a positive dining atmosphere. This involves pre-event communication, greeting guests, taking orders, upselling, event execution (games, crafts, doll care), processing transactions, maintaining cleanliness, and collaborating with the team. The role also includes meeting sales goals, managing vendors and orders, resolving customer issues, and adhering to safety and sanitation guidelines. Knowledge of InfoGenesis is a plus.
Must have:
  • Customer relations experience
  • Event planning & execution
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks
  • Positive attitude
  • Experience with children (preferred)
Good to have:
  • ServSafe certification
  • Fine-casual dining experience
  • InfoGenesis system knowledge

Job Details

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team: The American Girl Retail team is integral in providing lifetime memories to American Girl fans and their families. Our experiential retail stores provide shopping destinations like no other. This requires Innovation, Collaboration, and Execution from all who are a part of this division. Our in-store experiences range depending on location from Girl and Doll Salons, Full-Service Restaurants, Personal Shopping, Ear Piercing (Girl and Doll), hosting Parties/Celebrations to name a few. Expect a dynamic and fast-paced role where you get to make decisions that impact the team as well as our customers. 

Job Description

The Opportunity:  The Party Planner is located at the AG Los Angeles Retail location and reports directly to the Restaurant Manager. This position is responsible for working one-on-one with party guests to create a magical event through superior communication and organization according to AG specifications. If you have experience in customer relations, event planning and execution, or parties, and have the ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive attitude, we want to hear from you. 

What Your Impact Will Be: 

 

  • Achieves and delivers timely steps of party execution, and positive indicators on Customer Comment Cards.  This includes communications with the customer prior to the event; creating and maintaining a pleasant ambiance in the dining room and party rooms; working with the party team to greet and seat guests in a timely manner, share store and event information with guests, take and deliver beverage and food orders, upsell, service the party throughout the event; prepare desserts and to-go transactions, deliver and process checks, bus and reset tables, daily clean up, and restocking of supplies. 

  • Meets sales goals and budgetary guidelines.  Work with external vendors and place product orders in a timely manner. 

  • Ensure customer satisfaction by providing an exceptional party experience and oversee resolution of customer service issues and requests in a gracious manner. 

  • Executes events to AG standards, including games, crafts, hair styling and skin care of dolls. 

  • Maintain on-going party communications with staff, management, and the Retail Sales and Services department. 

  • Has knowledge and understanding of local and state health sanitation laws and follows food and workplace safety guidelines. 

  • Assigns and complete daily tasks and side work assignments for FOH and BOH areas in a consistent and timely manner. 

  • Has thorough knowledge of the InfoGenesis system and ensures transactions are completed according to company policy. 

  • Takes the initiative to train, teach and assist teammates, including providing assistance to various areas of the restaurant, when needed. 

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For:

  • Minimum of 6 months’ work experience in customer relations, parties or events. 

  • One to two years’ experience in a high-volume, fine-casual dining or related restaurant, preferred. 

  • Experience working with children, preferred. 

  • Current ServSafe certification, preferred. 

  • Good verbal and communication skills are required. 

  • Must enjoy public speaking, children, and possess a warm and friendly demeanor. 

  • May be required to perform diverse physical tasks, including some heavy lifting (approximately 30 – 50 pounds), transporting full trays and bus tubs that weigh up to 30 pounds.  Constant standing and walking and exposure to a loud working environment. 

  • Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays. 


The base hourly rate for this position is between $18 - $21
**This range is indicative of projected hiring range, however base hourly rate will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience.**

Additional Information

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How We Work:

American Girl is subsidiary of Mattel, a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

  • We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
  • We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
  • We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Who We Are:

American Girl is a premium brand for girls and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT, www.mattel.com), a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.

Mattel’s award-winning workplace culture has been recognized by Forbes, Fast Company, Newsweek, Great Place to Work, TIME, and more.

Visit us at https://jobs.mattel.com/ and www.instagram.com/MattelCareers.

Mattel is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and protected veteran status, disability status, and or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment.

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About The Company

We empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.


We treat play as if the future depends on it — because it does. Play is our language, and we speak to our consumers authentically by representing the world as they see and imagine it.


Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Monster High and MEGA, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies.

Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies.


Mattel is recognized as a Great Place to Work™ and as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators.

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