My school would be a little different from the average bartenderschool.
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 schoolschool
on the resume is The New York BartenderSchool(
http://www.newyorkbartendingschool.com ).
In order to put together my program, I would have to attend these as well:
http://www.beveragealcoholresource.comhttp://www.ardentspirits.com/Classes/ClassInfo.htmlhttp://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.comcheryl[at]misscharming.com