Is Nadiya Stellenbosch-Pryce a real person

No. She is invented for this page, and so are Ardglass Brasserie and Dunmorrin House Hotel. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.

Can a waiter's work really be measured

All of it. Covers a service, spend per head, table turnaround, allergen requests handled, staff trained. Restaurants track every one of those and most waiting staff never put a single one on a page.

Is spend per head a fair claim

It is if the restaurant measured it and you had a section. Average drinks spend per table up 18% over two years, after the wine list was learned and three pairings were recommended a service, names the mechanism, which is what makes it usable at interview.

What did the checker score it

96 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 7 points short and readable volume 3 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 90 × 40% for content. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to it.

Do languages matter in restaurant service

In a tourist city they are close to the top of the page. The example carries three, with levels, because a floor manager staffing a Saturday reads that line as cover for a whole shift.

Which design is this rendered in

Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. This page used to show the document in Compact and argue that restaurant applications are handed over rather than uploaded. The eight were chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement: each one exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Example · Hospitality

A free waiter résumé example, with the section written down

One complete waiter résumé, written out in full in three dated roles. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— covers, spend per head, allergens. all countable.

The waiter example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Minimal design: name, summary, three dated roles with five achievement lines each, education, skills and languages — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Minimal design, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Restaurant service is one of the most measured jobs in any economy and one of the least measured résumés. This example is written out in full so you can read what the counted version looks like, then put through the tools here so you can see what software takes from it. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Nadiya Stellenbosch-Pryce
Waiter and Section Leader
Dublin, Ireland · [email protected] · +353 1 555 0272

Summary
Section leader with five years in brasserie and hotel restaurant service, working on allergen handling, wine service and the training of new staff. Runs a section of 40 covers across 6 shifts a week.

Experience

Section Leader · Ardglass Brasserie, Dublin · 2023 to present

Ran a section of 40 covers through 6 dinner shifts a week and trained 4 new waiters on the same section.
Increased average drinks spend per table by 18% over 2 years by learning the wine list and recommending 3 pairings a service.
Handled 60 allergen orders a month against the kitchen's own matrix and passed every one to the chef in writing.
Resolved 90 guest complaints over 2 years at the table, and the restaurant escalated only 4 of them to the manager.
Briefed a team of 8 on the specials before every service and cut order errors on the section by 35%.

Waiter · Dunmorrin House Hotel, Kilkenny · 2021 to 2023

Served 120 covers a night in the hotel restaurant and worked 5 shifts a week across 2 years without a late arrival.
Delivered breakfast service for 200 guests a morning and cleared the room for lunch inside 45 minutes every day for 2 years.
Learned the wine list of 60 bottles and answered guest questions on it at 300 tables a month without calling the manager.
Operated the till through 400 transactions a week and balanced the float at the end of every shift for 2 years.
Covered 30 banqueting events a year for up to 180 guests and set every room up to the written function sheet.

Waiting Assistant · Dunmorrin House Hotel, Kilkenny · 2020 to 2021

Cleared and reset 90 tables a shift during the hotel's busiest season and kept the turnaround under 8 minutes every time.
Prepared 600 items of glassware and cutlery before each service and restocked the station across 4 shifts a week for a year.
Supported 3 senior waiters through 200 covers a service and carried every order to the correct table without a mistake.
Learned the allergen matrix for 40 dishes in 2 weeks and checked every table order against it before the kitchen saw it.
Handled 200 cash payments a week at the bar till and balanced the drawer every night without a shortfall for 12 months.

Education
Leaving Certificate · Rathbeggan Community School, Meath · 2015 to 2021

Skills
table service, wine service, allergen handling, upselling, till and payments, event service, table turnaround, customer complaints, team briefing, cash handling

Languages
English · native · Ukrainian · native · Irish · A2

Certifications
Level 2 Food Safety · 2024

A section is a number

A section of 40 covers through 6 dinner shifts a week. One hundred and twenty covers a night in the hotel restaurant, and breakfast for 200 guests cleared for lunch inside 45 minutes. Ninety tables reset a shift with the turnaround held under 8 minutes. Those tell a floor manager exactly what this person can hold, and none of them requires an adjective.

Turnaround is the underrated one. In a busy room it is the difference between a full evening and a queue at the door, and a waiter who held it under 8 minutes through a hotel's busiest season is describing consistency rather than a good night.

Allergens and events are the trust lines

Sixty allergen orders a month checked against the kitchen's own matrix and passed to the chef in writing. That is a safety record, and in a restaurant it is the line a manager is most relieved to see. Thirty banqueting events a year for up to 180 guests is the second kind of trust: being left in charge of a room.

Training four new waiters on the same section, and briefing a team of eight before every service until order errors on the section fell by 35%, is the third. A section leader is somebody the floor manager does not have to watch, and the training line is the evidence of it.

Skills for a waiter résumé, grouped

Nadiya's skills split into service, safety and sales. Service: table service, wine service, event service, table turnaround, team briefing. Safety and trust: allergen handling, customer complaints, cash handling. Sales: upselling, till and payments. A restaurant manager reads allergen handling as the line that decides trust.

Hotel, fine dining and events work name the same skills differently, so group them in your own words. The résumé builder takes any group names you choose, and it is free.

From waiting assistant to section leader

A waiting assistant's résumé proves pace and care: tables cleared, orders taken, events supported. The Dunmorrin roles show that start. A waiter adds a section of their own, its covers and its spend per head.

A section leader adds other people: briefings run, new staff trained, complaints resolved before they reached the manager. Write the section as a number at every level. The first-job guide helps anyone starting on the floor.

How it reads and scores

The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 3 languages and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 96 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 7 points short and readable volume 3 points short: 100 × 30% for parseability, 100 × 30% for completeness and 90 × 40% for content. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five it did not award are the tense rule. The same check runs on every example; the method is described here.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Nadiya Stellenbosch-Pryce's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Nadiya Stellenbosch-Pryce's waiter résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Nadiya Stellenbosch-Pryce's waiter résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What this example leaves off

No photograph, no list of personal qualities and no claim about being passionate about hospitality. A floor manager has read that sentence several hundred times and can find out whether it is true in a trial shift.

Very short seasonal placements are left off unless they fill a gap. Three summers in three different resorts is a pattern worth grouping into one line with the dates rather than presenting as three jobs that each ended after eleven weeks.

What to change for your own

Change the room. Fine dining, high-volume casual, banqueting and room service all use this shape with different rhythms. Keep the shape itself: three dated roles, five verb-first lines under each, and a figure in every line. Then put in your own covers, spend figures, turnaround times and event work.

Keep the food safety certificate with its year. Keep the languages. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the bartender example, the head chef example and the cashier example show the same structure in neighbouring work.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Nadiya's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Minimal design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Nadiya Stellenbosch-Pryce a real person: No. She is invented for this page, and so are Ardglass Brasserie and Dunmorrin House Hotel. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.
Can a waiter's work really be measured: All of it. Covers a service, spend per head, table turnaround, allergen requests handled, staff trained. Restaurants track every one of those and most waiting staff never put a single one on a page.
Is spend per head a fair claim: It is if the restaurant measured it and you had a section. Average drinks spend per table up 18% over two years, after the wine list was learned and three pairings were recommended a service, names the mechanism, which is what makes it usable at interview.
What did the checker score it: 96 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 7 points short and readable volume 3 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 90 × 40% for content. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to it.
Do languages matter in restaurant service: In a tourist city they are close to the top of the page. The example carries three, with levels, because a floor manager staffing a Saturday reads that line as cover for a whole shift.
Which design is this rendered in: Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. This page used to show the document in Compact and argue that restaurant applications are handed over rather than uploaded. The eight were chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement: each one exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.