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Bartending
What the job is, where the money comes from, and how to find out what your state requires
Bartending is a skilled trade you can enter without a degree, and almost everything written for beginners either sells a certificate or promises a number. This track does neither. It explains how the job is actually structured, how bartender pay is assembled from parts you can observe and ask about, and how to find out for yourself what your own state and county require before you work a shift.
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Module 0What this job actually is
The shape of a shift, who else works behind the bar and what they do, where openings actually come from, and an honest account of what the job costs you physically and socially.
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Module 1Where the money actually comes from
Nine drivers that decide what a bar pays, taught as arithmetic you can run on any venue in front of you, followed by the venue segments as structures rather than salaries. No income figures, no promises.
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Module 2Get legal
How alcohol service regulation is organized in the US, how to find and read your own authority's page, and what we have verified for your area. ZeroDegrees issues nothing and routes you to the authority first.
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Module 3The craft
The drinks that cover most orders, specs, free pour versus jigger, and building speed.
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Module 4The bar as a system
Well, call and premium, the POS, tabs and comps, and cutting someone off as a legal skill rather than a social one.
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Module 5Getting in with no experience
The barback to bartender path, which venues hire green, a resume with no bar history, and surviving the trail shift.
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Module 6First 30 days
What to do in week one so you are still there in month two.