According to relevant data, Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other big cities lack about 5,000 bartenders every year. The salary of domestic bartenders is generally around 2000 yuan. But every industry has champions, and some have a monthly salary of five or six thousand yuan or even ten thousand yuan. If they are in management positions, their monthly salary will exceed 10 thousand yuan. With the increase of the number of bars, the salary of bartenders, as the "soul" of bars, will also rise. The basic salary+service fee+liquor commission will be the salary composition of bartenders in China in the future. In foreign countries, bartenders need to receive special vocational training and obtain technical licenses. For example, there is a special bartender training school in the United States, and all specially trained bartenders not only have more employment opportunities, but also have higher wages. Some international hotel management groups have also formulated rules and standards for the assessment of bartenders.
Fancy bartending, which is very popular in China, is a fashionable profession driven by the rise of bars in recent years. In fact, any bartending method requires basic bartending knowledge. The first requirement is to master 20 cocktail varieties and recipes, and the training time is 40 hours. Intermediate level requires mastering 40 cocktail varieties and recipes, and the training time is 60 hours; Advanced requires not only mastering the varieties and formulas of hundreds of cocktails, but also focusing on blending red wine from France, Italy and other countries to achieve the level of creating cocktails and managing bars. It's just that fancy bartending requires more passion and special juggling skills.
To be a bartender, a bartender must have four abilities: first, passion. There is a saying in the bartending world: a good bartender can not only mix wine, but also "flirt"-the taster is in the mood and life; The second is memory. The more wine you can mix, the more recipes you must remember. The third is color vision. If you want to please the guests in the senses, you must match the colors reasonably. The fourth is personality. As a bartender, you should be cheerful, be good at communicating with everyone and create a relaxed atmosphere. If you learn fancy bartending, you need to pay attention to four aspects:
First, there must be protective measures to learn tricks to mix wine. You can't practice with real bottles at first, because there will be a lot of throwing bottles into the air when you mix wine in a pattern. For beginners, these movements are dangerous, so you must use professional practice bottles for training. Secondly, under the guidance of coaches and experienced bartenders, the learned movements will be very standardized and beautiful. Third, pattern bartending is an impromptu performance, which requires dynamic music and training with the beat. Fourthly, the psychological training of pattern bartending is more important than the action training, because pattern bartending is a skill demonstration that bartenders often perform under strong light and watch by a large audience. If you learn to mix wine because you are interested, start with the basics of wine. You should first understand how famous Chinese and foreign wines are classified, and then learn the basic rules about cocktail preparation. Then you can learn to make cocktails according to popular cocktail recipes, so you will find it much easier to learn cocktail modulation index and cook. According to the survey, there are three kinds of people who are willing to do bartending: the first is to learn bartending for interest, and these young people are often more involved; The second is to learn to mix wine in order to find a job; The third type is a bar owner who learns to mix drinks in order to run his own bar. If you want to enter the ranks of bartenders from a layman, you need to study professionally for at least three months and practice for about half a year before you can become a bartender who can be a teacher. Bartender is a great group of people. They can use lemon slices and cherries to make many delicious things you never expected. The gooseberry wine and whipped cream are stirred and shaken in your hands for a few minutes, and then put in different styles of utensils, and a wonderful "angel kiss" is born. If you don't understand the secret, you can call it a mixture of several drinks. However, if we know its rigorous technology and how to appreciate its delicate luster and artistic mood, we will feel that its value is far from being summarized by a glass of wine.
To be a qualified bartender, you need to master many things, such as the knowledge of various foreign wines, the recipe of cocktails, various tools and the making of fruit bowls. Fancy bartending should combine lighting, music, magic and other skills, which can make several bottles fly in the air at the same time and scatter the burning flames everywhere, which is more like a performing art.