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December 29, 2011
Has Anyone Seen My Julep Strainer?

If we want bartending to stand alongside the other culinary arts, we need to start approaching the job as a true culinary profession. 

If we want bartending to stand alongside the other culinary arts, we need to start approaching the job as a true culinary profession.

December 2, 2011
Profitability on the Up and Up

Beverage operations have to be hitting on all cylinders to crank out maximum revenue.

In this highly competitive marketplace, you’re either on the way up or on the way down.

October 14, 2011
Bar-Specific Training

Punching up Performance

Modern restaurants have embraced staff training programs as an essential tool of the trade. Ongoing front-of-the-house training can improve sales, smooth service, and raise morale.

July 21, 2011
A drink menu, bar none

Bars typically operate on the principle that the customer already knows what drink he or she will have.

March 25, 2011
Building a Better Bar Team

Considering the potential for good profits from your bar program, it is increasingly important to assemble a bar team that work well together, back each other up, and share responsibilities.

March 7, 2011
The Sure Pour

Bars are often nickled and dimed into ruin, or considering today’s high prices, they’re quartered to death. And it happens with almost every flick of the wrist. The culprit is lax or nonexistent portion controls. A drink’s sal

February 1, 2011
It’s a recipe for disaster.

There is no foolproof way to prevent all inappropriate behavior and the lawsuits that may follow.

January 26, 2011
When an N/A Drink Will Do

A little simple math should dispel that myth. If less than half of the American adult drinking-age public admits to consuming alcohol, that means that just about half would prefer to be seen drinking something without alcohol in it.

 

“You know you’re low man on the totem pole,” griped one bartender, “when you’re the guy who has to come up with the nonalcohol drink.” That’s the attitude that prevails far too commonly among hospitality professionals---that the N/A drinks are the least important part of the alcohol sales equation.

January 18, 2011
The Famous Cocktails of New Orleans

When it comes to the cocktail, historically at least, New Orleans is arguably the most influential city in the world. Not only does it boast some amazing old bars and saloons, but it is also the birthplace of some of the most famous, inspiring, and complex cocktails being enjoyed around the globe today.

January 7, 2011
Iron Bartender, Portland, OR