Should I attend a bartending school?
This is the question in the mind of so many prospective students. Bartending schools are one of the only two tried and true methods to learn to become a bartender and get a bartending job. The other way that also works is to learn on the job.
The advantages of a bartender school
Our training is fast, focused, organized, is hands–on which is absolutely perfect for bartending., It covers many more vital topics than you can learn in any other setting including on the job training. On the job training sets you up to work in THAT bar and THAT setting. Our program teaches for all settings. You can work in a high end environment, a neighborhood joint, or a trendy club and be capable of calling on what you learned for each setting.
A bartender school likes ours is STATE REGULATED. That is an advantage for you. We need to meet educational, financial, and other goals that require us to do more on your behalf. State regulation is a protection for you It´s a valuable consumer protection.. If there is a problem you have somewhere to complain and expect to get a follow up. Without it if unsatisfied you have no recourse.
A good program like ours focuses on the job placement assistance part of the program. We have been doing this in the Pittsburgh area and have thousands of contacts and former grads, some of which hire from the school. On top of that our program uses techniques to help people get work from decades of operating bartending schools and bars where we did the hiring. We will be able to give you the critical help that only people in the business and in the area can provide.
Do I Need a bartending license?
We have been asked that question thousands of times over the years. Pennsylvania doesn´t require a bartending license. Most of the country doesn´t require a bartending license. You receive alcohol management certification from our school. That is a huge advantage. It is the predominant requirement throughout most of the country.
Can I take a refresher class program?
This comes up a lot. We have had so many graduates over so many years take our program, become bartenders and work for a period of time and then stop. Six months or several years later they want to get back in the business. Our free bartender class refresher program enables you to do this and easily get back out in the bartending work force.
Do you want to know what is cool? Over many decades we have seen thousands of former grads who had good bartending jobs for a period of time. Then they stopped bartending. Later they came back to one of our schools because they absolutely valued the hands on practice and updated bartender job opportunities. They are the ones that quickly gain new bartending jobs. Nothing verifies our value than these grads who used the program once, made it work for themselves and come back to use it again.
Why Bartending?
If you are thinking about a variety of different skills bartending has so many advantages and is so flexible that it can work for lots of different people in lots of different settings. You can bartend full time or you can get a part time evening job while working your regular job or going to school.
You can learn the skill in only 40 hours. That is amazing. So many skills and so much training requires thousands of hours of school. Our program and bartending is so much simpler. You can learn the skill quickly, start working, earn the cost of training back quickly and continue to use it as much as you want or need.
And by the way bartending is fun!!!! Ever go into a bar and see a grumpy unhappy bartender? Its nothing like working in a cubicle staring at a computer screen and not having anyone to speak with. Customers go into a bar expecting to feel good, and bartenders make the environment.
More Questions? Come see us!!!
There is no better way to find out if bartending and our Pittsburgh bartending school are for you then to come in and visit our school for a free bartending class visit. Its like test driving a car before you pay for it. It´s a free visit, its fun and it allows you to check everything out before you jump in.