cocktail bartender
Code 5132.1.2
The cocktail bartender (bartender de coctelería) creates and executes cocktails: technique, menu and bar experience. Use this Job Dictionary profile to specialise creative bar work as distinct from a general bartender.
Essential skills
Skills and competences
- enforce alcohol drinking laws
- create new recipes
- assemble cocktail garnishes
- display spirits
- execute opening and closing procedures
- prepare mixed beverages
- extract juices
- handle bar equipment
- gestionar pagos de facturas
- handover the service area
- identify customer's needs
- handle glassware
- maintain customer service
- maintain bar cleanliness
- upsell products
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- think creatively about food and beverages
- prepare fruit ingredients for use in beverages
- setup the bar area
- present decorative drink displays
- stock the bar
- work according to recipe
- serve beverages
- process payments
- operate dishwashing machine
- clear the bar at closing time
Transversal competences
- assist customers
- present drinks menu
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What to assess for this role
Assess technique, creativity to brief and bar costs.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a cocktail bartender do?
- Designs or executes cocktails, calibrates recipes and elevates the bar experience.
- Need fine-dining experience?
- It depends on the ad; hotel, speakeasy or event cocktailing ask for different profiles.
- What to measure when hiring?
- A blind cocktail round and consistency across services.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences