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Subject: Re: Bartending Schools in the UK
From: Little_Green_Men
Posted: Wed Feb 13. 2002, 09:19 UTC
Followup to: "Bartending Schools in the UK"  by ADAM  (Fri Jan 18. 2002, 00:08 UTC)
> Bartending Schools are becoming ever more popular in the UK, our 
> courses are all booked here at Shaker Bartending.  But when I was a 
> keen bartender there was nothing there to even show me the basics of 
> customer service, product knowledge, mixology, flair and so on.
> 
> Our aim with the courses we provide is to give bartenders and 
> managers a solid foundation to then work on, which was not available 
> before.  Every student that has attended our school goes away 
> MOTIVATED to provide their customer with that little extra touch of 
> service quality.  Professionalism in the UK is very much behind 
> America in alot of ways and the training courses we provide are 
> almost necessary for our bar-culture to progress.
> 
> Let me know your thoughts guys, as the US have been doing this for 
> alot longer then your on the pond patriots.
> 
> We also have people travelling from as far as America and Australia, 
> which I find crazy when there are literally hundreds in America, 
> wierd.
> 

Yup!  Met an Italian guy here in Vegas (he's living in London) who went to 
california to learn Bartending at the San Francisco School of Bartending. I 
live in Las Vegas and have heard good things about this school, (it's kinda 
like a japanese "Joo-Koo" Crash course on customer service, high-tech computer 
monitors, one-on-one type of stuff. NOT just drinks...and I'm a sceptic!). He 
went back to  to London and got a job immediately in London's club district 
solely on the basis that he had a certificate stating that he was an 
"American-Trained Bartender" landed a job straight away in a martini bar 
making good money.  I went to bartending school too but never bragged about it 
to anyone.  For good reason.

This guy was very PROUD.  Evidently this school will fail you if you don't 
pass.
> cheers


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