Working Flair Bartender: How To Become A Professional Bartender & Make Huge Tips!, #3

By Scott Young

Working Flair Bartending Is A Business Tool – Use Wisely. You Will Make WAY More Money In Sales AND Tips!

If You Don't Entertain Your Customers…Someone Else Will!
Flair Bartending Doesn't Have to Be Complicated, Difficult Or Risky To Be Entertaining.

Our Main Slogans Are:

- If You're Going To Serve It, Serve It With Style!

- Spillage Of Alcohol Is Unacceptable!!!

- You Don't Have To Slow Down To Make A Drink With Style!

- Have More Fun Than Anybody, And Serve It WIth Style!

This book is a great start and has a ton of insider tips & tricks

All the tools are here for you in this manual.
- 41 different moves that we combine into
- 9 specific Mini Performance sequences of flair moves
- That make up 1 short & simple "Full Performance Drink Routine".
- Use them as a foundation to build on. Add more difficult moves as you improve.

Also Includes: Ask The Experts - Successful Flair Bartenders from around the world share their thoughts, stories and advice.

Give customers a reason to come to your bar, stay longer, spend more money, Tip well,

and tell all their friends about what a great time they had.

Just about anyone Can Learn "A Handful" of The Easiest, No Risk Moves.

 

About The Author:
Scott Young - Bartender | Trainer | Author | Featured Speaker & Video Producer
- 30+ Year Bar Industry Career
- Made Over 800,000 Drinks.
- Taught Seminars in 16 Countries, 27 US States & Every Province in Canada.
- Featured in Over 400 TV & Radio Interviews, Magazines & Newspaper Articles
- Created 25 Training Course DVD's Sold in Over 100 Countries.
- Considered by many to be the pioneer of standardized training for Practical Working Flair Bartending.
- Author of 28 Bar Industry Books, Study Guides & Work-Books

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital.NBRTraining.Com
• Release date: Jul 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201071899

Scott Young

- 30+ Year Bar Industry Career  - Made over 800,000 Drinks. - Taught Seminars in 16 Countries, 27 US States & Every Province in Canada.  - Created 25 Training Course DVD's Sold in Over 100 Countries.  - Considered by many to be the pioneer of standardized training for Practical Working Flair Bartending. - Author of 28 Bar Industry Books, Study Guides & Work-Books - Featured in Over 400 TV & Radio Interviews, Magazines & Newspaper Articles - He is still learning

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We Are All Service Givers and Memory Makers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Learn How to Make More Money in The Hospitality Industry

Keep An Open Mind

1: Working Flair Bartending Is A Business Tool – Use Wisely

Being a Full On Flair Bartender isn’t for everyone.

Extreme Bartending Brings Fun And Profit To Any Bar

Take The 10-Day Flair Challenge – (Message From Scott Young)

Larry G. Guevara Says: Where it all began. I got the hippy-hippy shake!

2: First Step To Becoming a Professional Flair Bartender?

What is the difference between Working flair & Exhibition or Competition flair?

As a bartender, what can flair do for me?

How we teach Flair Bartending as a business tool so everyone wins...

Extreme Bartending Rules to Live By

Changes To Your Bar Set Up

3: Fundamentals Of Flair

How To Practice

4: Letter From a Bar Owner

Two Ways To Look At Flair Bartending

5: Understanding Critics Of Flair Bartending

6: Industry Pros Discuss: What is your take on flair bartending?

Grover Reed III Says: Bartending to me is like music...

Rich Unger Says: Flair Bartending has its place everywhere from The Ritz to Trump Plaza.

7: Begin a Simple Routine - Flair Section 1 – Rocks Glass

Flair Section 2 – Shaker Tin Routine

Flair Section 3 – Style of Movement Flair Full Bottle 1

Flair Section 4 – Style of Movement Flair Full Bottle 2

Flair Section 5 – Lemons & Limes

Flair Section 6 – Straws

8: The Biggest Mistake You Can Make

Becoming A MASTER

What To Say To Tom Cruise Comments

9: Expert Interviews: Advice From Working Flair Bartenders

Gilario Larry Guevara Says: Bar Business is Show Business.

Flairen Hawk Says: There is so much more to Flair than just flipping a bottle.

Graham Kimura Says: I tend to make at least $2-$5 more per drink when I flair.

Erin Connelly Says: I was terrible in the beginning.

Marc Mital Says: Be humble. Kindness goes along way.

Terri & Vladymyr Buryanov Say: It only takes one small move to capture the attention of most people.

Alexey Balashov Says: When I see the joy of the people, that’s priceless!

Angela Balatoni Says: Flair = More guests and more fun!

Christopher Sinclair Says: It’s literally in your job description to entertain your guests

Renae Nae Tsukamoto Says: it’s the little things customers freak out about.

Kevin Mayo Says: Focus on the transitions from move to move.

Joel Scholtens Lindsay Says: ...adding in a few simple tricks using it to interact with customers...

Vache Manoukian Says: Lots of guest interaction. Don’t just flair the bottles, flair the bar!

Von Scheller Says: Flair made it more than just a job to me.

Ryan Christopher Punzalan Senia Says: it’s enjoying your work to the fullest.

Danilo Oribe Says: I say its 40 percent talent and 60 percent hard work.

Extra Flair Sections 7: Shaker Tin #2 Sequence

THE FEAR FACTOR

Extra Flair Section 8: Set-up Bottle – Elevator & Who’s your Daddy? (1- 4 oz)

Extra Flair Section 9: Advanced Pouring Sequence (1½ flips to pour)

Full Drink Performance Routine

Simple Drink Routine – Shaken Margarita  Flair Sections 1-6

Drink Routine Sequence

Passing and Catching a bottle with a partner (DO THIS SAFELY!!!!)

Author’s Note: Don’t be afraid to try new things.

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"Just Make Up Your Mind At The Very Outset

That Your Work Is Going to Stand For Quality,

That You Are Going to Stamp a Superior Quality Upon Everything

That Goes Out Of Your Hands, That Whatever You Do

Shall Bear the Hallmark of Excellence."

- Orison Swett Marden

Keep An Open Mind

I have always tried to be very non-combative about the way I teach.

I can’t come into your country, your city, your bar and TELL you what’s going to work with YOUR customers.

You are professional, working service givers, and experts on your area

and we respect that.

But what I can do, is tell you about all sorts of things that are working in other bars around the world. It’s totally up to you whether you want to try any of them or not.

We, all the people who contributed to this series, really want you to succeed.

This entire series is about giving you ideas on how to be a better All Around service giver.

We’re here to help you make more money, for yourself and for your bar.

There are things that suggest that you’ll think to yourself..... Yeah....that’s not going to work for me ☺.

No problem. We don’t expect you to agree with everything we say or write.

Just remember. Everything we’ve written has come from hard won experience.

Basically, we’ve screwed up so many times, we’ve figured out some better ways to do things. Not perfect, that’s too much to expect, but with excellence ☺

So, keep an open mind, be willing to experiment a bit and you may find

that you have more fun and make more money.

"If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done,

You’ll Get What You’ve Always Gotten."

- Anthony Robbins

Make Some Changes And See What Happens

© Scott Young Bar Smart Inc. – TheBartendingMasters.com |

1: Working Flair Bartending Is A Business Tool – Use Wisely

I Promise

You Will Make WAY More Money In Tips!

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If You Don’t Entertain Your Customers...Someone Else will!

Give customers a reason to come to your bar,

stay longer, spend more money, Tip well,

and tell all their friends about what a great time they had.

Well, for me, learning and implementing an intelligent working flair style ABSOLUTELY, made me WAY more money than I ever did before I began. Serving with style was a major part of me succeeding in every measurable and non-measurable way.

BUT, you have to learn when and when not to use your skills, when to do more and only do a little not to mention knowing your limits and playing the odds for risk factor vs. reward. You’ve got to be smart about it.

Just about anyone Can Learn A Handful of The Easiest, No Risk Moves.

This book is a great start and has a ton of insider tips & tricks

But we’ve created 25 full length Training Videos ( over 33 hrs of Video )

With slow motion & step by step Instruction.

All Available at our Video Training Library and so many more:

Click Here To Watch Our Intro Video And Get Your Free Trial

Working Flair Bartending Starter Series

Being a Full On Flair Bartender isn’t for everyone.

But the moves we teach at the beginning of our courses, this book and our videos really are designed so virtually anyone can do them. Just take it one small step/move at a time. No Rush. Take the time to learn each move until you have confidence that you can do it. It will happen faster than many people think.

Even just a simple toss and catch of a shaker set with a smile on your face will impress people and make them smile too.

Yes, I’m biased but as you can see from this book, doing any level of Flair Bartending is not the only way to make great tips. It’s a tool like many others.

But... It is the most visible way to stand out from the crowd and get people’s attention. It’s a fact, people will notice you and watch.

Pic of Viviana Mattivi – Just look at how many faces are watching.

If you do it right, and not overdo it or get too big an ego etc.

I promise that you will make WAY more money in tips than you did before. I certainly did and so are tens of thousands of my students around the world. And, of course many others that aren’t my students but use flair as a business tool as well.

I’m talking about intelligent, practical, low risk moves that are eye catching and interesting to watch and you can do whether you’re slow or really busy.

Working Flair is a very useful business tool that, if used properly, helps everybody win.

The bar and the bartender make more money.

Whether you’ve been bartending for ten minutes or ten years, if you’re willing to learn just a few low risk moves you can add one more way to entertain your customers, without slowing down or spilling alcohol! 

Extreme Bartending Brings Fun And Profit To Any Bar

It’s amazing just how much attention a little style behind the bar can attract. The Tom Cruise movie Cocktail brought flair bartending to popular public attention in 1988,

but the art of flipping and spinning bottles has been around for generations.

WHAT IS FLAIR/EXTREME BARTENDING?

Making and serving a drink in a stylish and interesting way.

In the early years before the term, Flair Bartending, became the generally agreed on descriptive title, there were many words used to describe this kind of bartending.....flair, freestyle, Olympic, performance, cocktail, etc.. They pretty much all mean the same thing..... performing while you’re behind the bar.

Flair bartending means to perform with flair, be a performer and entertain your customers. It’s the act of stylishly preparing and serving cocktails. Don’t just serve a drink, SERVE IT WITH STYLE!

In this training seminar you’ll learn many different ways to serve drinks with style as well as a few bar bets that have NO RISK at all to your bar manager’s bottom line. 

# 1 Rule in Performing While Bartending at Work is,

SPILLAGE OF ALCOHOL IS UNACCEPTABLE! 

# 2 Rule is...

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SLOW DOWN

TO MAKE A DRINK WITH STYLE.

Flair is nothing more than efficiency of movement combined with a little pizzazz.

Flair is having fun at working hard. This technical performance art form involves the spinning, flipping, throwing, balancing and catching of bottles, glassware and bartending tools.

Whatever tricks or moves you learn; you must work them into your natural flow.

Practice until you’re comfortable doing them in any situation without risk.

Flair bartenders are DEDICATED AND PASSIONATE about their jobs.

Take The 10-Day Flair Challenge – (Message From Scott Young)

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If you’re wondering if you’ll really be able to do this??

We say this: How do you know until you try?

Learning flair bartending is like learning a new sport.

Until you’ve been trained by someone who knows what they’re doing,

You have no Idea what you’re capable of.

We do. If you want to and If you REALLY try.

How do we know? We’ve trained tens of thousands of people

all over the world with our seminars and DVDs.

I created this company in 1994 to teach people like you and I’ve personally served over 800,000 drinks with flair. Our students are often amazed at how much they can do after just a few days of personal instruction & a solid effort.

There is trained and there is Un-trained. We will teach you how to practice effectively.

You can’t do everything, but have you done everything that you CAN do?

There are no miracle cures, but we can help you increase the odds for success.

Our program is all about what YOU... CAN... control.

If you want to learn, we CAN teach you! All the tools are here for you in this manual

IF, you give 10 days of focused practice on the simple moves and routine we teach you in this manual.

- 41 different moves that we combine into

- 9 specific Mini Performance sequences of flair moves

- That make up 1 short & simple Full Performance Drink Routine.

- Use them as a foundation to build on. Add more difficult moves as you improve.

Use these routines as a complete performance show or break them up for great working flair mini sequences. We believe that a multi- layered, supportive & interactive learning system creates a comfortable environment and better results.

Everyone is encouraged to really get involved. You can expect a well thought out plan that uses proven teaching techniques...

There is an old proverb that says, "When you pray, Move your feet "

Training without practice doesn’t do much good either.

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Check this out: Great article by Robert Plotkin. Start Flipping Those Bottles.

Bar Guru, Author of 16 Hospitality Industry Books, Sought after Consultant. He says,

"Flair bartending is a time-proven means of wowing guests,

building repeat business and driving sales to new heights."

Larry G. Guevara Says: Where it all began. I got the hippy-hippy shake!

Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown popularized flair in the movie Cocktail but it was John JB Bandy (from TGiFriday’s ) who trained them.

Scott Says: That’s where it started for me too. After seeing that movie, in 1988, I thought I’ve got to be able to do that, so I built a bar in my backyard and started practicing and experimenting. In 1994 I started my company training people and doing performances around the world.

( Fun Fact: Then,