Bar Manager
A Bar Manager ensures that a bar or pub can run smoothly, providing quality beverages and excellent service to customers.
What Does a Bar Manager Do?
A Bar Manager ensures that a bar or pub can run smoothly, providing quality beverages and excellent service to customers. A Bar Manager is responsible for many of the day-to-day tasks needed for a bar to function. They employ staff, set work schedules and maintain fully stocked inventories. A Bar Manager also ensures quality control and that laws and regulations in relation to alcohol service are complied with.
A Bar Manager needs a hands-on attitude. They lead their team by example. They serve drinks, welcome customers and take client feedback, criticisms or praise. The Bar Manager works towards creating a positive environment for customers and a profitable front-of-house.
Bar Manager Job Responsibilities:
- Maintains inventory.
- Creates drink and food menus.
- Determines employees’ schedules.
- Ensures bar is well-stocked and clean.
- Tracks customer behavior and sales.
- Maintains budget and monitors costs.
- Maintains drink recipe documentation.
- Oversees planning for special events.
- Appropriately delegates tasks to staff.
- Selects and purchases liquor and other supplies.
- Oversees staff, including bartenders and barbacks, and, in some cases, bouncers, wait staff, and/or kitchen staff as well.
- Hires, trains, promotes, and, when necessary, disciplines or fires staff.
- Selects music, books bands, and provides input on décor and marketing, including social media and other forms of publicity.
- Initiates and maintains vendor relationships.
- Uses point-of-sale tracking technology and bar and restaurant management platforms.
Bar Manager Qualifications/Skills:
- Accomplished mixologist.
- Excellent multitasking ability.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Interpersonal relationship skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong leadership ability.
- Organisational skills.
- Customer service skills.
- Knowledge of food, beverage, and hospitality industries.
- Calm under pressure
- Able to maintain restraint in stressful situations.
- Ability to deescalate tense interactions.
- Judgment and creativity.
- Facility with math.
- Comfortable with hospitality and sales technology platforms.
- Enthusiasm and lots of energy.