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Subject: Re: Charm School
From: Cheryl Charming
Posted: Wed Nov 29. 2006, 00:18 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Charm School"  by nyguy79  (Tue Nov 28. 2006, 20:49 UTC)
My school would be a little different from the average bartender school. 

I haven't thought about it in depth, but see it having levels. Ya know, let's 
say you're already a bartender and want to bump it up a notch. There would be 
classes for people already working in the biz. Another class would be for 
someone that knows absolutely zilch about alcohol or the biz and so on.

To me, you can't clump everyone together in the same classes; barware, 
alcohols and their history, recipes etc. And I would want to attract the 
newbies and the experienced.

Also, no one would get a freakin' certificate or diploma. Only the experienced 
bartenders here will understand the absurdity of that. My only compromise 
would be: after you have tended bar fulltime at one place for one year then I 
will give you a piece of paper certifing you as a bartender.

In the past coupla years I've been creating bartender resumes for people all 
over the country and the only school people beg me to put a bar school school 
on the resume is The New York Bartender School( 
http://www.newyorkbartendingschool.com ). 


In order to put together my program, I would have to attend these as well:

http://www.beveragealcoholresource.com
http://www.ardentspirits.com/Classes/ClassInfo.html
http://www.flairco.com/Training.cfm?Alt=Training%20at%20the%20FBI
 
I would also like to have guest celebrity bartenders.

As everyone probably knows here already, I've visited many bar schools and I 
have lots of opinions on what I witnessed. Listing the negatives is not 
productive, so I will just say that I learned a lot of what NOT to do. Really, 
this is all I have to go by.

Cheryl


 


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Cheryl Charming
http://www.misscharming.com 
cheryl[at]misscharming.com


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