| The food and beverage service industry offers plenty | | | | very friendly manner and with ease. At service bars, |
| of job opportunities. The job of bartenders is to fill drink | | | | however, bartenders do not directly interact with |
| order from customers. These drink orders can be | | | | customers. There are a number of hotels, restaurants |
| taken in two ways - either at the bar itself or from | | | | and clubs where the bars are located at some |
| waiters who place these orders for customers sitting | | | | distance. In these cases, the bartenders fill drink orders |
| in the dinning room. The bartender has the responsibility | | | | placed by waiters and waitresses. At some other |
| to take care of both the dining room drink orders and | | | | establishments, there are automatic machines that can |
| drink orders at the bar. Since beverage services | | | | release beverages at the push of a button. Even at |
| include serving alcohol and tobacco products, it is the | | | | these places, the bartenders should be quick enough, |
| responsibility of the bartender to make sure that the | | | | as orders will be arriving in huge numbers or bulk. |
| customers at the bar meet the minimum age | | | | Education Requirement for Bartending |
| requirement. While doing their job at the bar, the | | | | There is no specific training or education required for |
| bartenders serve customers bottled beer, prepare | | | | bartending jobs. However, employers prefer high |
| mixed drinks for them and pour wine or other drinks | | | | school graduates to join as bartenders. Bartending jobs |
| for them. | | | | prove to be an immediate source of income for most |
| To make their career successful, bartenders need to | | | | youth. Employers also provide on-the-job training to |
| have good knowledge of beverages and drinks. They | | | | new joinees. There are numerous public and private |
| should possess excellent capabilities of mixing drinks | | | | vocational schools where short term courses in |
| accurately without wasting any of it. When it comes to | | | | bartending are offered. By getting enrolled in these |
| beverages at the bar, there are recipes as well. The | | | | courses, students can acquire more skills in the art of |
| bartenders, therefore, need to know about various | | | | bartending. Generally, employers prefer to hire |
| drink recipes and be able to create new recipes to | | | | candidates who are 25 years or above for bartenders |
| serve customers with the latest and attract them. It is | | | | jobs. |
| also the bartender's job to look after the stock of | | | | Employment & Salary |
| garnishes. These professionals need to look after the | | | | Most of the bartenders' jobs are available on a part |
| bar supplies as well. Besides doing these work, the | | | | time basis. A major population of the youth is |
| bartenders also have the responsibility of maintaining | | | | employed in the field of bartending. Around 551,000 |
| and cleaning the bar area, serving food at the bar and | | | | bartender's jobs are expected by the year 2016. The |
| washing of utensils among others. An inventory of | | | | median annual salary of bartenders is $16,350. |
| liquor and other bar supplies also needs to be | | | | Additional income comes from tips given by |
| maintained by the bartenders. | | | | customers. Tips are greater at high end and popular |
| Besides having knowledge of serving and mixing of | | | | restaurants. Bar tenders working in large restaurant |
| drinks, the bartender should also possess interpersonal | | | | chains may be given the opportunity of entering the |
| skills. Usually, bartenders have the opportunity of | | | | company's formal management training program. |
| directly interacting with patrons at the bar. Therefore, | | | | Depending on their expertise and skill set, bartenders |
| they should interact with customers at the bar in a | | | | can also be promoted to higher supervisory jobs. |