Your Bartending Plan of Attack

Okay, you're ready to start dropping off your resume to local area bar managers. It's taken you a few hours of work to polish the resume, build a list of ideal bars, and get the names of the bar managers, but now you're way ahead of the game.

You're prepared!

I like to utilize my time efficiently so I make a list of bars I want to hit by physical location and times I'd like to be there.

First I take my list and divide it into times.

If the bar is open during the day I typically stop by between 2-4 which is after lunch, but before the dinner rush. Otherwise, I'll stop by bars that don't serve food during their happy hour times during the week which is usually between 5-8, depending.

After I have them categorized I literally take out a map and plot the best route to stop by each bar to save time.



Then I stack my resumes in the order of the bars I'm going and have the name of each bar manager written next to the list of Bars I'm going to.

Stopping by a bar takes no more than 5 minutes so you can be super productive if the bars are clustered near each other.

If the bar manager is there, all the better... Learn what to say when you stop in each bar.

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