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Subject: Re: Bartending school a joke??
From: Vixen
Posted: Thu Dec 27. 2001, 20:27 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Bartending school a joke??"  by KemalCan  (Tue Dec 11. 2001, 19:31 UTC)
> > Several times on this board I have seen posts that say managers laugh 
> > 
> > at an applicant who lists bartending school on the app.  Just 
> > wondering why is that?  Incidently, I have never attended a school, 
> > 
> > just curious.
> 
> Like everyone else has said, Its all in the students attitude.  I attended 
> bartending school just to pretty much get the basics of the biz.  I got alot 
> out of it but I wish the showed us how to stock the bar, or keep inventory, or 
> keep the back clean and where everything should go instead of showing us how 
> to layer a B52....which I have yet to see done in a busy bar.  So I am about 
> ready to accept a Food & Beverage Manager position at a ski resort and lucky 
> what I REALLY needed to know I got from experience, not school.  When I 
> "graduated" bartending school I was nervous as hell and still am (especially 
> since I will now be the boss), but if you have enough confidence and not TOO 
> much you'll be fine.  So while I do recommed someone that doesnt know much 
> about the hospitaly scene to check out a school, I dont think that for 3 or 4 
> hundred dollars you shell into it, that is a necessity.  Good Luck either 
> way!

Erin


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