I’m sure you’ve walked into a bar,
been served a drink and thought, “that guy really has it made,
doesn’t he? He’s getting paid to be at this party!”
And you’re right! Because bartending is the only career I can
think of that is fun, rewarding, flexible and lucrative!
Free Bartending
School is designed in a simplistic format for the novice to semi-experienced
drink maker and is designed to get you behind that bar with envious
onlookers. In teaching new skills, it is always important to begin at
the most introductory level possible, so if you find yourself reading
something that you already know, don’t be insulted. In bartending,
as with any other career, there is an important foundation of knowledge
that must first be securely established to support the wealth of additional
information we will teach you and to help all the additional tid-bits
you’ll pick up along the way make sense.
The course was created to get you
behind the bar as soon as possible. As such, you’ll find our FBS.com™
shortcuts weaved throughout the course to help you build a solid foundation
without hitting you over the head with too much information. But I get
ahead of myself…
What you should be concentrating
on right now, is your end goal– working as a bartender! Bartending
is an occupation that can provide a substantial full or part time income.
It can help put you or your children through school, save extra money
for that previously unattainable vacation, or become a lifetime occupation!
Bartending is truly an art form that when practiced and applied can
deliver a great deal of satisfaction, fun and money!
Bartending is also an important
responsibility, in that you hold the controls and will have to exert
your authority when your customers don’t know “when to say
when”. You’ll never know how many lives you’ve changed
each night when you exercise that control and “cut off”
the customer who’s had too much to drink.
Stay Focused!
Right now it’s important
for you to keep the fun and money of bartending in the back of your
mind, because no matter how much of a wonderful career bartending is,
you must not fool yourself; it will take work on your part to become
a professional bartender and it will be necessary for you to have the
knowledge imparted in this course committed to your memory. Further
still, it will take discipline on your part to practice your skills
and be sure that you “know your stuff”, before taking on
your first job.
We’re dedicated to getting
you ready to hire. You need to be just as dedicated to committing yourself
to completing the Freebartendingschool.com course!
How this course is organized
The course is set up with test
questions at the end of each chapter that we'd recommend you successfully
complete prior to looking for work. In order to not only learn the information
well enough to be the best bartender that you can possibly be, we recommend
reading each chapter twice. Once, quickly, to familiarize yourself with
the general theme of the chapter, and then a second time, more slowly
to allow the knowledge to seep in. Immediately upon completion of a
chapter, complete the portion of the test that relates to that chapter
while the knowledge is still fresh. Also, do your best not to look through
the chapter for answers, but rather push yourself to extract the answers
from what you just learned. Our Bartending
School takes an honor system approach. We recommend that you write
down all answers in a notebook. Upon completion of the final chapter,
we'll send you all the answers that you can use to grade yourself!
Also part of the learning process
is an award of sorts. At the completion of each chapter you’ll
find some hands on homework that you can complete utilizing the ad-hoc
bar tools we suggest in Chapter 2. You’ll need to practice the
drink making techniques in this course and if you’re going to
be practicing, you may as well enjoy the end result as you answer your
test questions!
As you read through the course,
you’ll notice a general theme of speed and time saving tips that
will pop up throughout. The theme of speed relates to how quickly we
want you to get working, and how quickly you must respond when working
on the job. The goal here is not only to get you working, but to keep
you working. Bartending is not a job for the lazy or the watcher of
the clock and by utilizing the tips and knowledge within this course,
we’re confident that you’ll soon find yourself wondering
where the time went with your new job! Keep these tips in mind because
they’ll allow you to use your time efficiently, serve more customers
and make more money!
In addition to time saving tips,
you’ll also see tips on being an A+ bartender. These are easy
things that you can do to help rise to the most desirable shift, make
up for some early mistakes you may make at your new job, or in general
just be better at your craft! The devil’s in the details, and
it’s the details that will make you more money in this job, and
better at it. We’d recommend paying special attention to these
tips.
Let’s Get Trained!
We’re confident that you
have the ability to be a sharp and highly sought after bartender, having
already saved hundreds of dollars opting to teach yourself in the comfort
of your own home, for free with FreeBartendingSchool.com. Now more than
ever you must keep true to your goal and discipline yourself to stick
with a regular plan to complete the course and get certified as soon
as possible!
A FreeBartendingSchool.com passing
grade is proof to you and your potential employer that you have completed
the steps necessary to learn your craft and have been awarded a certificate
to attest to your skills. We recommend you to answer a 70% or better
on all test questions to consider yourself certified. Please note that
this passing grade is not a governmental or legal accomplishment, rather
simply a benchmark developed by bartenders, for bartenders.
Congratulations on taking the first
step toward a rewarding, exciting, fun and lucrative career as a bartender!
And remember…
As a bartender, you’re always
the life of the party!
No Hands on Homework or Test Questions
This Chapter!