by Scott_Shreffler » Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:02 am
Just my two cents, but I went to bartending school and I found it to be a tremendously helpful decision. When you leave the school, which is two weeks long, you have 40 hours of bar experience, as most of the school is hands-on making drinks. There certainly is something to be said for bar-backing for a while and then trying to transition to being a bartender. However, going to the school help you skip that process (bar-backing)which could take many, many months. One last thing, the bartending school (yes, 1 (800) bar-tend) has lifetime job placement. Ten years from now, if, for some reason, I wanted to get back into bartending, I could go to the school and look through their book for job openings. And trust me. There are lots of bars in this town who look for people from that school first, because they know that they have been well trained. So, the long and short of it is that I can endorse the bartending school with no reservations. Oh, and one last thing, I LOVED bartending. It was one of the best jobs I have ever had.
Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
-Hunter S. Thompson