Video Bartender: Fun-to-Know: Become a Professional Bartender (2005)
Once this video starts playing, you quickly realize it's actually titled Bartending Made Simple and is part of an at-home bartending instruction kit. At a couple points they encourage you to follow along with your booklet... which you don't have if you rented the DVD from Netflix.
The video is an hour-and-a-talk tutorial on how to work at a bar without knowing many recipes. There are (apparently) 15 must-know drinks in the manual, then you should be able to remember others such as vodka tonics, because the ingredients are part of the name. (They remind you how easy this makes it several times.) They give tips such as setting-up the speed rack, bartending myths, and to make sure you have a neat and clean appearance. They say you'll be trained on the cash register, soda gun, and specific glassware to use for certain drinks when you get to work, so they skip those parts. Then the video leads us through several customer scenarios to show you questions they might ask at the bar.
I'm not sure who the intended audience for this video is- people who can just walk into a bar and get hired as a bartender without experience, but are nervous about it and want some video training in advance?
Labels: bartending, video
