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Subject: Re: Need Help, New To Bartending
From: Red Baron
Posted: Thu Mar 7. 2002, 09:57 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Need Help, New To Bartending"  by miamimartini  (Wed Mar 6. 2002, 17:10 UTC)
> > 
> > I'm not pretending to know much more about bartending...As a matter 
> > 
> > of fact, I have to wait a year to even get into it, I'm only 20 years 
> > 
> > old :P  I DO know for a fact that, you do NOT need to get a 
> > certificate to become a bartender.  I also hear bad and good things 
> > 
> > about bartending schools - its about fifty/fifty good and bad 
> > comments combined.  I really don't know what to think about them, 
> > because I've never taken a bartending course - but I don't plan to 
> > 
> > either.  Like you, I want to become a bartender to (hopefully) pay my 
> > 
> > way through college.  And from the comments I've seen about schools 
> > 
> > and certificates, most managers could give a rats butt if you had one 
> > 
> > or not - they want to actually SEE that you have what it takes, a 
> > peice of paper can't tell them that ;)  Of course thats just from 
> > what I've heard so far from people...I could be wrong!  maybe someone 
> > 
> > with more experience will reply ^_^
> 
> 
>  I went to ABC 
> bartending school and was very happy with it.   Only 9 out of 22 
> people were certified.
> 
> REALLY???  ONLY 9 OUT OF 22 WERE "CERTIFIED"???
Not True.....I AM NOT CALLING YOU A LIAR!!  THE SCHOOL LIED TO YOU!!
THINK ABOUT IT...IT'S BULLSH*T!!  "ONLY A FEW OF OUR STUDENTS EVER GRADUATE...
"
NATIONAL-CHAINS OF BARTENDING SCHOOLS ARE ALL ABOUT MAKING $$$!!
NOT TEACHING BARTENDERS A DAMN THING!!!!  NOT ONE!!!
NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NONSENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is EXACTLY what I've been trying to POUND into everyone's head!!
Most ALL Bartending schools are a SCAM. SCAM. SCAM. SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They don't really give a flying F*^ck about you!!!
National Chain-Bartending schools are ALL FAKES!!!!!!

If you chose a bartending school make sure it's a local shop!!  NOT a national 
chain promising "National Job Placement"  (there's no such thing as 
'placement' from any school....they're not employment agencies!!)...in short: 
THEY PLACE NO STUDENTS AT ALL!!!  They only list ads from the newspapers in 
their "job placement" lists.

There ARE a few good bar schools out there.  Look for them. (I live in 
Northern California...there are only 2 that I know of <neither being a 
National/Professional/ABC chain>...both of them are privately owned!)
Go and visit them: Santa Rosa Bartenders School(No web page)...and...San 
Francisco School of Bartending(sfbartending.com) Find a school that is FOUNDED 
by BARTENDERS for BARTENDERS!!, Thus you learn all of the secrets of the trade.
Go ahead and visit bar-schools, make sure you visit a few of them before you 
make up your mind.


Good luck.

Jordan


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