The internship at the Tuxedo Club focuses on rotating interns through our various food and beverage departments as well as other aspects of the Club. The objective of the internship is to provide interns with a well-rounded experience in club operations, specifically food and beverage, in order to help them develop their leadership skills and learn traits needed for the Club industry. This program allows interns to work directly with several managers, helping them to develop their leadership style.
Our service venues include the Pool Snack Bar which is a fast casual outlet, the Golf Clubhouse which is an upscale yet casual dining room serving lunch and dinner and fine dining at the Main Clubhouse. Interns will also work member events ranging from wine dinners to golf tournaments as well as banquets including weddings, golf outings, birthday parties and more.
Candidate Qualifications
The individual should be open minded, hardworking, positive, eager to learn, driven to excel and well organized. The candidate must be willing to work long hours, flexible, and be able to work as a team with our staff members. The Club prefers interns be available from mid-May through Labor Day, although we are flexible with your school schedules.
General Information
Education
The Tuxedo Club will work with each student to help complete any educational requirements set forth by their respective universities.
Internship Details
This is a paid internship position. Dorm style on-site room and board and meals during each shift worked are provided. Laundry facilities are available on-site. Interns should bring black no-slip shoes, all white tennis shoes, black pants, khaki pants/shorts and a few professional outfits. Individual transportation is highly recommended.
Other Benefits
The Tuxedo Club is located within walking distance of a train station that travels to and from New York City. The total travel time, including transfer, ranges from 45 minutes to just over an hour. Major shopping outlets within 15 minutes by car. The golf course is open to employees on Mondays when no outing is scheduled.
History
The Tuxedo Club is a private member-owned country club located in the Ramapo Mountains, approximately 38 miles northwest of New York City, founded in 1886, its facilities include an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones designed golf course, lawn tennis, court tennis (1 of only 11 active courts in the U.S.), Racquets, squash, platform tennis, swimming pool, and boathouse. The Club has two properties four miles apart with a full service clubhouse located at both the golf course and main club campus. The Club has three dining outlets, the Golf Clubhouse, the Pool Snack Bar, and the Main Clubhouse which overlooks the scenic Tuxedo Lake. The wide array of outstanding facilities, along with its rich wonderful history and traditions, makes The Tuxedo Club one of the most unique country clubs in the world.
The... Tuxedo? Oh yes, about that dinner jacket!
A Google search of Tuxedo will reveal more than eight million references. This would be a direct consequence of our dinner jacket, known around the world as a Tuxedo. The short-tailed dinner jacket as we know it today, was first introduced to America by a member of The Tuxedo Club. In the summer of 1886, Tuxedo Club member James Brown Potter and his lovely wife, Cora, while on a visit to England, were invited by the Prince of Wales to join him at Sandringham, his country estate, for the weekend. Prior to going, Mr. Potter asked the Prince what he should wear for dinner. The Prince replied that he had adopted a short jacket in the place of a tailcoat for dinner in the country and that if Mr. Potter went to his tailor in London, he could get a similar jacket made. Mr. Potter did as the Prince suggested. When he returned to America, Mr.Potter’s friends at The Tuxedo Club were not only impressed by the account of his visit to Sandringham but also found the jacket Mr. Potter brought back more appropriate than tails for informal dinners, and so they had it copied by their own tailors. It then became the custom for members of the club to wear this attire to informal dinners in Tuxedo Park. One evening, a group of members wore their new dinner jackets to a bachelor dinner at Delmonico’s. Their jackets attracted the attention of other diners who, upon enquiry were told “oh, that is what they wear for dinner up at Tuxedo.” And so, from that day forth, the name Tuxedo was forever associated with this style of formal wear.