O'Kellys is a busy, friendly pub: live sport every day, the Monday Pub Quiz, Thursday Bingo and home-cooked food. We have been welcoming guests in Freiburg since 2000, and our team is what makes the place.

If you enjoy people, teamwork and good craic, we would love to hear from you.

Open roles 1

Bar, kitchen and Waiting staff

Part-time Evenings and weekends

We are looking for bar, waiting and kitchen staff. Please get in touch especially if you are flexible regarding working hours and are looking to join our wonderful team. Let us know what experience you have and your availability. We are looking to fill part time, full time and mini job roles in our two pubs, O’Kellys and Oscar Wilde’s.

What we are looking for

You speak English and or German
You’re super friendly
Flexible and able to jump in if we need you
Kitchen, bar or waiting staff

Apply by email

How to apply

Send us an email

Write to info@okellys.de with a few lines about yourself, when you could start, and which languages you speak. We will get back to you.

Not so sure about your German?

Thinking of working with us, and your German is not up to scratch? This amusing book is made for you. It starts from the basics and gets more detailed as it goes on, it needs no prior knowledge of German or grammar, and every phrase is explained fully, including the mistakes new learners make.

Book tip for new staff

Pulling Pints in German

Survival German for Bar, Pub, Café & Restaurant Staff

by Liam Doyle

You took the job because they said English would be fine. And mostly it is... until a regular fires off a question you don't understand, the card reader dies mid-rush, or someone needs to know right now whether the soup has nuts in it.

Pulling Pints in German is the phrasebook for exactly that moment. No grammar drills, no vocabulary lists to memorise, just the real sentences you actually say across a bar and a dining room, in the order a shift throws them at you.

Every phrase comes three ways:

what it means in English,
the German you'll say,
and a simple respelling written for an English mouth, with no phonetic symbols and no fuss.

Inside you'll find the German for:

Greeting, seating and taking orders without freezing up
Beer, wine, whiskey and coffee, including what to recommend
Food, ingredients and the allergy questions you must get right
Handling complaints, the card machine dying, and the kitchen falling behind
Reservations, events, the beer garden, and last orders
Taking the money, splitting bills and tipping the German way

Plus the things textbooks never tell you: the false-friend traps that catch every English speaker (say "mir ist heiß", never "ich bin heiß", unless you really mean it), the regional words locals actually use, and a back-of-book Panic Sheet for when your mind goes blank on a Friday night.

Whether you're a student earning beer money, a traveller working a season, a new arrival, or an old hand in an Irish pub, this book gets you confident enough to earn the tips... fast.

Get the book on Amazon

The book is written in English, for English speakers learning German.

Work at O'Kellys

Open roles 1

What we are looking for

How to apply

Not so sure about your German?