American Bartending School

ATTENTION AMERICAN BARTENDING SCHOOL GRADUATES! WE HAVE A GREAT PLACE IN WESTLEY CHAPEL AREA (VERY BUSY AND FUN!!) LOOKING TO HIRE AT LEAST 10 BARTENDERS! PLEASE CALL THE SCHOOL TO GET INFORMATION! 813-876-1616

CHEERS!

Your new career as a bartender is two weeks away.
Sit in on a class or take a tour today!
813-876-1616 or Message us now.

Our favorite students become your favorite bartenders. ...because when we drink, we don't go to bars, we go to bartenders!

Another great Grad takes home the prize. With Hilton Bartender / ABS Bartending Instructor Mike, here's Kirstin. Smart, motivated, works hard, can precisely (to the drop!) memorize 150 drink recipes in just 2 weeks, WITH garnish, glass, mixing method... and plenty of extra hours put in practicing every day until testing. Kirstin!

We care.

Looking to the Future: When You Start Your Course in Bartending

Starting Your Class

After you call and come in to visit us for your tour to check us out (and if you enroll, of course) you'll be added to the starting date and class time that you have chosen.

Usually that is going to be a Monday or Tuesday (or rarely Wednesday but that does occasionally happen too).

You'll arrive about 15 minutes early and sign in, then pick your seat in the demonstration/lecture area.

Since the way we teach our classes is modular (Each lesson covers different categories of drinks with regular rules and few exceptions), you will be learning the new drinks in your lesson along with other brand new students, as well as week two students who have never taken the lesson, but who are nevertheless a whole week ahead of you in practice and knowledge.

So none of those other students you're learning with have taken the class you are taking now. They will be working with you and helping you learn and stay on course while you learn, and you'll be helping them learn too by taking turns behind the bar building drinks. The instructors will be there too behind the bar, helping and watching everyone, so you learn to build drinks the right way, so that you won't get a chance to develop any bad habits, and so that you learn quickly.

The first thing the lecture starts off with is a quick review of the previous lesson. After that the rules for the NEW lesson are displayed on our large screen TV and students have the opportunity to photograph those rules.

Then the instructors make the drinks for the day and properly garnishes and presents them.

After the Lecture there's a 10 minute break. Many students will head directly behind the bar to start practicing. Some will rewrite their notes, and still others will head out back for a quick phone call and a smoke.

Seeing as how you're a brand new student, you will now be given your school classroom orientation telling you where to find everything and explaining the simple rules you need to know so you can benefit from our coursework the most.

NEXT UP: THE FUN!

So you've taken your first lesson and just like everyone else, you'll head behind the bar to practice making the drinks you just saw your instructor make.

Your instructor will be there to help guide you, and you'll also be working opposite the other students with more experience, and maybe even with some students who've graduated already who've come back to get in some more practice or "tune up". Everyone learns!

The more you mix, the faster and better you get. Nothing like hands on practical training to build speed, confidence, and brand recognition going for those bottles behind you on the shelves!

During practice the instructors will also ask questions in a cheerful, game-like fashion. The "Call Brand" game is conducted to make the bartender faster and faster at bottle recognition by flavor, appearance, where it's made, age, and other factors. Other games are played to help the bartenders know the speed rail (well brand) order, make sure they know how to properly I.D. people so they're of legal drinking age, etc.

Another of the games the instructors go over strengthens the recall of the bartenders memory aids that we teach to remember the drink recipes.

The class isn't all about fun and games though. It's about preparing the student for the real world of working in a real bar where when you go home, the bar has to be closed (or left) properly and be made ready for the next day or shift.

END OF THE CLASSROOM DAY - CLOSING YOUR BAR OR ENDING YOUR WORK SHIFT

Here's where we provide real world end of shift bartender duty training - where your co-workers appreciate your being there, and your managers know that you know what you're actually doing behind the job - and nobody has problems with you working at the bar!

It starts with a quick cleanup routine and bringing the bar up to par, which means that all of your used "liquors" and "liqueurs" etc are now filled and ready to go.

The bottles are removed from the speed rails, everything is wiped down, dried off, polished, and put back in place. Spill mats are emptied and cleaned. Mixing sets are cleaned and set up for the next "shift" (of students), and then, once the homework has been assigned, everyone is ready to go home to prepare for the next day's class.

IT'S AN INTENSE 40 HOURS BUT WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT IN YOURSELF

You'll have learned an actual valuable trade skill (a trade skill you can sell to bar owners everywhere, over and over again, including working private and public events and parties for hundreds and hundreds of dollars each) where you can be working regular jobs bartending full time making $600 to $1000 a thousand a week OR MORE, (as many of us do now and have in the past as well).

So, without any further ceremony, what would it take for me to get you to consider coming in to sit in on one of our NO CHARGE, NO FEE, NO OBLIGATION classes for a day? What would it take to get you to come in for a quick look around tour to meet us?

My name is David Curtis. I'm an instructor also working in Admissions here at the American Bartending School and I'd like to show you around.

Would you give me a call please at 813 876 1616 and ask for me, David C, and I'll be happy to set you up! :-)

Any day is good for me - let me know - email works too!
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