FULL-SERVICE BARTENDER COURSE
Course Description
This course offers training in bar operations and procedures common in full service bars, along with techniques of pouring and mixing drinks. The course objective is employment as a bartender in a full-service bar.
The two-week session consists of 30 hours of behind-the-bar instruction and practice. We meet for three hours a day, five days a week, for two weeks. Santa Rosa Bartending School offers both a morning and an evening session.
Course content
- The legal responsibilities of a bartender: California liquor laws and thrid-party liability
- Responsible alcohol beverage service
- Customer ID checking and verification
- Job responsibilities: opening and closing procedures; the normal daily routine common to most bar operations
- Pouring techniques: drinks poured over ice, two-part highballs, cocktails prepared in a shaker, blender and freezer can
- Glassware identification and selection: for use with mixed drinks, cocktails, and after-dinner drinks
- Use of the draft beer system, beverage flavor system (cobra-head), and ice machine
- Use of written and verbal abbreviations
- Types of mixes used in drink preparation; preparation of pre-mixes
- Material covered in Pour Man's Friend: A Guide and Reference for Bar Personnel, textbook and workbook. A Spanish-language workbook is now available!
Schedule of Fees
| Registration * | $100.00 |
| Textbook * | $15.00 |
| Workbook * | $15.00 |
| Tuition | $365.00 |
| Course Total | $495.00 |
| Items marked * are non-refundable | |