Professional Bartending, Continuing Education Workforce Certificate
This course enables the student to learn the essentials of professional bartending. Topics include bar preparation, beverage recipes and customer service, understanding alcohol laws and responsibilities, evaluating intoxication levels, checking identifications, and dealing with difficult situations. It will prepare the student to discuss liquor liability issues and state liquor laws, demonstrate the use of bartending equipment and tools, identify various kinds of glassware utilized in a bar operation, recognize brands of liquor and relate brands to type of liquor, and practice customer service skills and sale of drinks using a point of sale system.
Program objectives
Upon successful completion of this Continuing Education Workforce Certificate, students will be able to:
- demonstrate the knowledge and skills to function effectively as a bartender in the hospitality and food service industry,
- prepare to effectively and safely handle difficult situations related to the serving of alcohol,
- meet the eligibility requirements for a certification of Training Intervention ProcedureS (T.I.P.S.) offered by Health Communications, Inc., and
- prepare to gain employment in the hospitality or food service industry.
