Host Award Categories

  1. Best Server, Fine Dining in a restaurant
    Candidates from a la carte full-service food restaurants, including bar service staff.
  2. Best Server, Casual Dining in a restaurant
    Candidates from a la carte full-service food restaurants, including bar service staff.
  3. Best Server, Banquet Catering
    Candidates serving banquet meal functions in casinos, resort hotels, free-standing restaurants, or off-premise catering.
  4. Best Food and Beverage Support
    Candidates from food service personnel including dishwashers, bus persons bar porters and banquet set-up who assist wait staff in casinos, resort hotels or free-standing restaurants.
  5. Best Bartender
    Candidates from taverns, casinos, resort hotels, free-standing restaurants, or off-premise catering.
  6. Best Host/Hostess
    Candidates include seaters, greeters from casinos, resort hotels or free-standing restaurants, clubs, and free-standing entertainment venues.
  7. Best Visitor Information/Concierge/Service Personnel (Thomas G. Henning Award)
    Candidates from guest contact positions at Atlantic City/County attractions, parks, recreation facilities, guest relations and information desks, concierge or concierge-related positions and Boardwalk Ambassadors.
  8. Best Retail Sales Associate
    Candidates from retail stores directly serving the customer.
  9. Best Valet
    Candidates in valet positions at restaurant, resort hotels or casinos.
  10. Best Door/Bell Person
    Candidates in door or bell positions at restaurant, resort hotels or casinos.
  11. Best Room Service Personnel
    Candidates from resort hotels and casino hotels responsible for setting up and delivering in room dining food orders. This does not include order takers.
  12. Best Casino Host
    Candidates include casino hosts, hostess, and loyalty program personnel.
  13. Best Room Attendant/Housekeeper
    Candidates who clean guest rooms in casino hotels, resort hotels, and motels.
  14. Best Food Production Personnel
    Candidates from free-standing restaurants, casino hotels, or resort hotels that directly cook, maintain food safety standards and support kitchen food production personnel (line cooks, pastry cooks, pantry workers), or food attendants who service complimentary food/beverage operations at limited-service properties.
  15. Best “Heart of the House” Personnel
    Candidates from casinos, resort hotels or free-standing restaurants who directly support front-line customer contact personnel. Positions include housekeeping house persons, laundry personnel, banquet set-up, bar backs, shift engineers, assistants, maintenance personnel, etc.
  16. Best Reservationist
    Candidates from direct contact positions within a casino or resort hotel, i.e., front desk and reservations personnel.
  17. Best Security Personnel
    Candidates from security positions, including emergency medical technicians, within a casino or resort hotel who directly interface with guests.
  18. Best Casino Table Games Personnel (The Ray Kot Award)
    Candidates include games dealer, poker, race book, casino, roulette and keno.
  19. Best Slot Personnel
    Candidates include slot attendants, slot technicians, slot cashiers.
  20. Best Casino Support Personnel
    Candidates include pit clerk, casino credit clerks and hard/soft count attendants.
  21. Best Public Area Personnel
    Candidates from resort hotels and casinos including EVS attendants, public area cleaners, and facilities/maintenance/grounds keeping personnel.
  22. Best Cashier
    Candidates from restaurants, resort hotels, casino hotels, attractions, and transportation authorities, includes hotel cashiers, food and beverage cashiers, parking cashiers, valet cashiers, casino/cage cashiers, and toll collectors.
  23. Best Cocktail Server
    Candidates include servers from the casino floor, lounges and showroom.
  24. Best Spa Personnel
    Candidates include spa concierge, spa receptionist, attendants, hair/nail technicians, aestheticians, massage therapists and pool attendants.
  25. Best Facilities Operations
    Candidates include trades, carpenters, engineers, boiler room workers, electricians, locksmiths, and painters.
  26. Best Sports Book/I-Gaming Personnel
    Candidates include those who work or support sports books and I-gaming.
  27. Entertainment Support
    Candidates include those working in staging, technical support, production, audio/visual, and lighting.