Bartending

[RawPaw]

I'm taking some classes in bartending, not really to serve alcohol but for the license so I can get into a spa/retreat serving raw virgin cocktails. A side job for the other things I'm doing.

I'm wondering if anyone here has seen that before. I'll have to make my own recipes based on the ones I've heard of.

I'll probably do clubs, parties, and weddings, too. But that's all alcoholic.

[gingincal]

Great idea! Raw, virgin cocktails...yumski!

[JennaBoBenna]

ooo! raw virgin cocktails sounds AMAZING

[spicyfull]

My Best to you........

[Amberly]

Hey where are you taking bartending classes? Do you think those bartending schools can actually help you find a job? I'm going to have to bartend for a while this summer. :) Don't know if to invest in the school. I have no bt experience.

[HolyGuacamole]

I was a bartender (in bars) for years and years. There is huge money to be made if you are good and you can bear being immersed in alcoholism, despair, bad behavior and clouds of cigarette smoke, LOL. It's a REALLY unhealthy environment on every level and not a line of work I would recommend.
It's actually not so bad if you work at, say, a pub, where food is also served and there are other things for people to do besides pounding mass quantities of alcohol, and in the daytime. It is fun and fast paced and inherently social, though, which I always liked. You certainly never lack people to talk to when tending bar.
I couldn't do it now, in any case. That part of my life is thankfully over.

I love the idea of working in a spa or retreat serving up healthy cocktails.
Ahh, that sounds relaxing. Much better than slinging poison to a bunch of sad, damaged people in a smoke-filled room. ;)

[RawPaw]

Hey where are you taking bartending classes? Do you think those bartending schools can actually help you find a job? I'm going to have to bartend for a while this summer. :) Don't know if to invest in the school. I have no bt experience.

I can send you a basic video if you want. Then you can take a course online for under a hundred bucks. It gives you a national certificate. You'll probably spend 40+ hours learning online. Not a big investment, esp. if you like to learn stuff on your own. It's nice to have another skill.

[RawPaw]

I love the idea of working in a spa or retreat serving up healthy cocktails.
Ahh, that sounds relaxing. Much better than slinging poison to a bunch of sad, damaged people in a smoke-filled room. ;)

I wouldn't mind doing concerts for the music, but I probably won't ever do the bar thing. Too stressful.

[shine72]

Everywhere I've worked, they've never hired anyone who did the courses. You pretty much worked your way up to bartender, and most of them like it that way. Because then you can help fill in if busy/short staffed, because bartending isn't the only job you know.

[RawPaw]

Everywhere I've worked, they've never hired anyone who did the courses. You pretty much worked your way up to bartender, and most of them like it that way. Because then you can help fill in if busy/short staffed, because bartending isn't the only job you know.

Except you have to have a license to serve alcohol (Texas). So at least you would have that. So you're basically paying for the TACB.

[AutumnBreezColordLeavz]

Seems to me that all you really need is a food handlers certificate. You are not serving booze, just juice, no?

[RawPaw]

Seems to me that all you really need is a food handlers certificate. You are not serving booze, just juice, no?

Luckily I'm getting both in the same course.

[Amberly]

RawPaw...how can I get that video? Even having to work up the the bar from serving, I want to know how to do it. Thanks!!!

[CoachP's Wife]

Everywhere I've worked, they've never hired anyone who did the courses. You pretty much worked your way up to bartender, and most of them like it that way. Because then you can help fill in if busy/short staffed, because bartending isn't the only job you know.

Same here, having been in restaurant/hotel management (not anymore) it's always been taught on the job, when they're short just offer to fill in and before you know it you're a full-time bartender:D.