Bar Service Essentials

Prevent contamination of food that might cause foodborne illnesses – you will be making your own lunch on this day!

• Learn about personal hygiene and cleaning practices to prevent contamination of food.
• Develop the skills to identify and control food hazards.
• Understand relevant food safety laws, standards, and codes.
• Develop skills using hands-on food preparation techniques.

Process cash and other payments for products and services. Modern computerised EFT training.

• Prepare and record cash float
• Operate an EFTPOS machine
• Check customer sales, print and issue receipts
• Provide correct change
• Count and record reconciliation
• Investigate reconciliation discrepancies.

• Help ensure the safe consumption of alcohol. Face-to-face RSA training is mandatory for licensees and staff selling, offering, or serving liquor for general, on-premises, late night, and packaged liquor licences.
• Keeping the lid on liquor. Learn the skills and knowledge required to responsibly sell or serve alcohol.

• A 6-hour training session in a simulated bar environment.
• Theoretical assessments pertaining to cocktail making equipment, glassware, presentation, flavours, and the process in cocktail making.
• A research project investigating how to make 6 popular cocktails including ingredients, procedure, and presentation.
• A practical session demonstrating how to correctly create 6 popular cocktails which were previously researched.

• The attributes of an effective food and beverage salesperson.
• Selling skills including types, techniques and closing sales.
• Knowledge of beer, wine, and spirits to effectively approach selling with confidence.
• Knowledge of sales points within the service cycle to sell these beverage options.
• Knowledge of situations in which differing selling types and techniques can be utilised.