Bartending a Lifestyle
Late nights filled with people, drinks, and unforgettable memories, and you’re the acclaimed host of all of it. The offers for you to join in never cease for the crowd’s favorite bartender. That’s why I…
Bar Kitchen Ideas
Your guests want some food options when they visit, but you didn’t budget for a full industrial kitchen. No worries. The following video provides you with a few ideas for cooking and outfitting a kitchen…
Bartending Flair
I know, I know flair bartending seems pretentious and needlessly self-aggrandizing, but incorporating aspects of it would benefit any bartender’s game behind the bar. Flair calls on one’s sense of showmanship and sleight of hand…
A Sad Request
June 7, 2016 Dan, Thank you for sending me those inventory spreadsheets and training manuals. They should have me covered for training up the staff. But I don’t know if I’ll be using…
A Reminder About Hygiene
Slow night. The floor seems to be busy. Wonder why no one is sitting at my bar?
Bartending for the Lost Generation
What would it be like to bartend for such legendary figures as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and various European Counts and Princesses? Well, Jimmie “The Barman” Charters did…
An Investor Weighs In
May 31, 2016 Patrick, Just a quick follow up to our chat during the fishing expedition. I must confess I’m curious as to how all this will look in the end. By that…
Bartending’s Universal Truth
You connect to many of the people you serve in ways beyond drinking building. So today’s article is a simple reminder of that by way of a poem from Thom Bishop. If we want…
A Bar Concept
May 26, 2016 Anthony, Here are my answers to part of the checklist you sent me. Concept: The focus of the bar will be atmospheric. It will have a colonial tavern themed…
Teamwork for the Win
The more you make others you work with look good, the more you look like a f*&king Pro! Otherwise you look kinda like…
