Barback Mock Interview
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Question 19 of 30
What kind of experience do you have preparing drinks?
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Luke Duggan is a thoughtful and engaging communicator with operations director experience in the hospitality and property management industries.
The barback supports the bartender, and there will be instances in which the barback has to help make drinks. For example, a bar with a martini or specialty cocktail menu will require more knowledge than a bar where customers order beer and wine.
Luke Duggan is a thoughtful and engaging communicator with operations director experience in the hospitality and property management industries.
Explain your beverage knowledge and relate it to the barback position you hope to get hired. It is ok to say that you have limited experience preparing drinks because you are interviewing for the barback position, not as a bartender.
Luke Duggan is a thoughtful and engaging communicator with operations director experience in the hospitality and property management industries.
"I have limited experience making cocktails and do so when the bartender needs help. I know the correct pour and know the difference between the rail liquor and try to upsell when I can. For example, our house vodka is Smirnoff, and I try to upsell it to Grey Goose or Ultimat vodka. I know our wines by the glass and all of the draft beer. However, my martini knowledge is limited, and pay close attention when the bartenders make those."
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