Thursday, January 12, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Bar Manager
I have been proceeding to work on opening a college bar through out my masters career at Full Sail University. I have done many projects a long the time of this course to help me better understand the logistics and business behind these bars. The last person I had interviewed was a manager at a popular college bar by the name of "Scoop Orlando." That interview was helpful for me because I received a lot of advice on what it takes, and what needs to be done to open a bar.
During this interview for this blog post, I was fortunate enough to meet and become friends with yet another manager for a different club up here. I brushed upon a few start up questions however, my main focus was to get advice on how to manage and run a proper bar, once it has already opened. I began talking with Mike Rubino, who has been managing a college bar in orlando for 3 years now.
He began to stress to me how important it is to hire the right employees. According to mike it is very easy for your employees to steal from you or cause you to loose money. It is almost an inevitable problem. To make a college bar work, your employees (bar staff, promoters etc.) must be able to spread the word about your bar and bring people in. Thus, the need to hire a good mix of people who are in "Greek Life" (fraternities and sororities) and others as well. The problem that can occur is these employees will bring people into your bar however not charge for drinks or put excessive alcohol. This is just like any business though, you must maintain strong management and make sure you have people to watch over all aspects of your business.
Another tip he gave me was promotion. You can never have too much promotion. It is important that your drinks specials and any other product is easily available to college students. It is a smart idea to invest in a good promo team to help get your events and drink specials out to your customers.
Other than that, the rest of his help was little things to do to help you stay organized and on top of things. Being organized will help avoid a lot of hassle and chances for things to go wrong.
I felt a lot better after speaking with mike because I feel as though I now have a good understanding and head start on not only the start up procedures but also the management and running of the business.
During this interview for this blog post, I was fortunate enough to meet and become friends with yet another manager for a different club up here. I brushed upon a few start up questions however, my main focus was to get advice on how to manage and run a proper bar, once it has already opened. I began talking with Mike Rubino, who has been managing a college bar in orlando for 3 years now.
He began to stress to me how important it is to hire the right employees. According to mike it is very easy for your employees to steal from you or cause you to loose money. It is almost an inevitable problem. To make a college bar work, your employees (bar staff, promoters etc.) must be able to spread the word about your bar and bring people in. Thus, the need to hire a good mix of people who are in "Greek Life" (fraternities and sororities) and others as well. The problem that can occur is these employees will bring people into your bar however not charge for drinks or put excessive alcohol. This is just like any business though, you must maintain strong management and make sure you have people to watch over all aspects of your business.
Another tip he gave me was promotion. You can never have too much promotion. It is important that your drinks specials and any other product is easily available to college students. It is a smart idea to invest in a good promo team to help get your events and drink specials out to your customers.
Other than that, the rest of his help was little things to do to help you stay organized and on top of things. Being organized will help avoid a lot of hassle and chances for things to go wrong.
I felt a lot better after speaking with mike because I feel as though I now have a good understanding and head start on not only the start up procedures but also the management and running of the business.
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