Bartending interview in about an hour

[Eeezee]

I might be a bartender

How early should I get there and what should I say?

It's for a bar+grill type of place. It's a bar, but it serves food (as opposed to a restaurant with a bar in it)

 

[KarmaPolice]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I might be a bartender

How early should I get there and what should I say?

It's for a bar+grill type of place. It's a bar, but it serves food (as opposed to a restaurant with a bar in it)

did you take any clases or have an experience..I am interested in doing this when i get back from japan


EDIT: I realized I didnt answer you quesiton...

10 mins early

 

[KillyKillall]

Ask for the interviewer 5 minutes early.

 

[MichaelD]

Show up about 10 minutes early. While any job tending bar will eventually show it's true colors, it's still a job interview. The interviewer will be hung over, on the cell phone and chain smoking the entire time. Do your best...you'll only be there for about 6 months before you quit or get fired anyway.

Any job in the "entertainment" industry is a self-absorbing bacteria. They eat their own.

 

[nageov3t]

on time ftw?

5-10 minutes early maybe... I hate when people come super early for interviews (like, more than half an hour early), because we end up having to just stick them in the lobby more often than not for half an hour because we don't have room in our schedule to interview them early.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I might be a bartender

How early should I get there and what should I say?

It's for a bar+grill type of place. It's a bar, but it serves food (as opposed to a restaurant with a bar in it)

did you take any clases or have an experience..I am interested in doing this when i get back from japan


EDIT: I realized I didnt answer you quesiton...

10 mins early

No experience, no classes. I talked to the owner a few times in person. Most bartenders don't take classes, and in my state you can start bartending at 19 (although I am 21).

You should give it a shot, it's one of the oldest professions and there will always be demand for more people to serve drinks to an ever-growing population of alcoholics

 

[fitzov]

Get there the night before and camp out. When the boss arrives, he'll know you're serious.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Show up about 10 minutes early. While any job tending bar will eventually show it's true colors, it's still a job interview. The interviewer will be hung over, on the cell phone and chain smoking the entire time. Do your best...you'll only be there for about 6 months before you quit or get fired anyway.

Any job in the "entertainment" industry is a self-absorbing bacteria. They eat their own.

Six months is good enough, I've just always wanted to know what it would be like to be a bartender in a college town

If the interviewer vomits due to his hangover, how should I react?

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: fitzov
Get there the night before and camp out. When the boss arrives, he'll know you're serious.

Yeah, okay, I'll do that starting last night

 

[Eeezee]

Okay heading out now, here we go

 

[Sentinel]

Get their reasonably early, but poop beforehand. I hate it when I get the poop when it's time to go in for the interview.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: KillyKillall
Ask for the interviewer 5 minutes early.

:thumbsup:

 

[D1gger]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
If the interviewer vomits due to his hangover, how should I react?

Just clean up his vomit, and get used to it, it is part of the job.