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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Mix and serve drinks to patrons, directly or through waitstaff. | Collect money for drinks served. | |||
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Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol. | ||||
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Balance cash receipts. | ||||
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Attempt to limit problems and liability related to customers' excessive drinking by taking steps such as persuading customers to stop drinking, or ordering taxis or other transportation for intoxicated patrons. | ||||
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Clean glasses, utensils, and bar equipment. | ||||
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Take beverage orders from serving staff or directly from patrons. | ||||
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Serve wine, and bottled or draft beer. | ||||
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Clean bars, work areas, and tables. | ||||
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Mix ingredients, such as liquor, soda, water, sugar, and bitters, to prepare cocktails and other drinks. | ||||
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Serve snacks or food items to customers seated at the bar. | ||||
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Order or requisition liquors and supplies. | ||||
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Ask customers who become loud and obnoxious to leave, or physically remove them. | ||||
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Slice and pit fruit for garnishing drinks. | ||||
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Arrange bottles and glasses to make attractive displays. | ||||
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Plan, organize, and control the operations of a cocktail lounge or bar. | ||||
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Supervise the work of bar staff and other bartenders. | ||||
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Plan bar menus. | ||||
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Prepare appetizers such as pickles, cheese, and cold meats. | ||||
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Create drink recipes. | ||||
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Stock bar with beer, wine, liquor, and related supplies such as ice, glassware, napkins, or straws. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Bartenders
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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- Tools and Technology
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Food Production | Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
AZZ CardFile software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Compris software | Point of sale POS software | |||
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ICVERIFY software | Point of sale POS software | |||
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Intuit QuickBooks Point of Sale | Point of sale POS software | |||
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MICROS Systems HSI Profits Series | Point of sale POS software | |||
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NCR Advanced Checkout Solution | Point of sale POS software | |||
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NCR NeighborhoodPOS | Point of sale POS software | |||
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Point of sale POS software | Point of sale POS software | |||
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The General Store software | Point of sale POS software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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2-prong strainers | Commercial use strainers | |||
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3-piece cocktail shakers | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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4-piece cocktail shakers | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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4-prong strainers | Commercial use strainers | |||
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Bar spoons | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Barcode scanners | Bar code reader equipment | |||
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Beverage machines | Non carbonated beverage dispenser | |||
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Blenders | Commercial use blenders | |||
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Breathalyzers | Alcohol analysers | |||
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Cash registers | Cash registers | |||
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Cocktail shakers | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Cocktail strainers | Commercial use strainers | |||
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Credit card readers | Magnetic card readers | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Draught foam control devices | Carbonated beverage dispenser | |||
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Drink mixers | Commercial use mixers | |||
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Electronic beer line maintenance equipment | Carbonated beverage dispenser | |||
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Frozen drink machines | Slush machines | |||
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Fruit knives | Commercial use cutlery | |||
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Glass rimmers | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Glass washers | Commercial use dishwashers | |||
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Hawthorn strainers | Commercial use strainers | |||
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Ice chippers | Ice shaver machines or accessories | |||
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Ice crushers | Ice shaver machines or accessories | |||
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Ice flakers | Ice shaver machines or accessories | |||
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Jiggers | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Julep strainers | Commercial use strainers | |||
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Keg-tapping equipment | Carbonated beverage dispenser | |||
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Lime slicers | Commercial use cutlery | |||
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Lime squeezers | Commercial use juicers | |||
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Linear imaging scanners | Bar code reader equipment | |||
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Long range charged coupled device CCD barcode scanners | Bar code reader equipment | |||
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Martini misters | Domestic mist or trigger sprayers | |||
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Mixing glasses | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Mojito machines | Commercial use blenders | |||
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Muddlers/mixing sticks | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Olive stuffers | Commercial use cutlery | |||
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Point of sale POS printers | Point of sale POS receipt printers | |||
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Point of sale POS terminals | Point of sale POS terminal | |||
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Point of service scanners | Bar code reader equipment | |||
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Point of service workstations | Point of sale POS terminal | |||
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Pour spouts | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Professional juicers | Commercial use juicers | |||
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Refrigerated liquid recirculation systems | Carbonated beverage dispenser | |||
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Soda dispensers | Carbonated beverage dispenser | |||
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Spirit measures | Cocktail shakers or accessories | |||
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Touch screen monitors | Touch screen monitors | |||
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Upright glass washers | Commercial use dishwashers | |||
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Zesters | Commercial use graters | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | Some College Courses | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Bar Attendant | |||
Bar Captain | |||
Bar Manager | |||
Bar Tender | |||
Barkeep | |||
Barkeeper | |||
Barmaid | |||
Barman | |||
Bartender | |||
Bartender Extra | |||
Bartender Server | |||
Drink Mixer | |||
Mixologist | |||
Server | |||
Taproom Attendant | |||
Waitress | |||
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