Bar and Bar and Beverage Industry

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1. Bar Service Industry Prepared by: John Alex Alinas ©Bar and Beverage Service with Mixology (2 nd Edition) – Lorenzo G. Bolo 1

2. Definition Beverage Service Industry is comprised of establishments or businesses that offer primarily beverage, foods and sometimes with entertainment and other services. Bars are establishments or businesses that primarily offer beverages, foods and sometimes with entertainment and other services offer to its customers. 2

3. Beverage services establishments Beverage-Only Bar It serves beverage alone. No food is being served beyond snacks. This type of bar is usually located near terminals or stations. Bar/Entertainment Combination B ars offering drinks and a range of entertainment. 3

4. Beverage services establishments Food and Beverage Combination I t serves food with beverage usually linked with some kind of food service. Hotel Beverage Operation Three or more bars in one roof with different purpose and ambience. Usually, the types of bar found inside the hotel are both bar-entertainment and food and beverage combination bars. 4

5. Beverage services establishments Airline Beverage Service Bars in commercial passenger planes serving drinks to the passenger. Usually the bar can be found in the business class section of the plane. For the passenger in the economy class, if they ordered a drink or a shot drink, it is served in a miniature sized bottle together with the glass where the drink will be served. For mixed drink, is is served mixed already. 5

6. Beverage services establishments Cruise and Passenger Ship Beverage Service Serving passengers in a cruise and passenger ship. Particularly in a cruise types of bars that can be found are also similar to that of a hotel operations since it is either a floating hotel, resort or theme park. Rail Beverage Service bars in commercial passenger rails serving drinks to the passengers. 6

7. Beverage services establishments Coffee Shops/Coffee Houses/Café A place specializing on coffee and serves as a meeting place particularly for transacting business. Beer Garden is an open open-air public area where alcohol is legally served. In Germany, Beer garden is common place particularly during the famous October Fest. 7

8. Types of Bar/Entertainment Combination Disco bars are where dancing is a form of entertainment and the guest could have both food and drinks and dance. Night clubs are drinking, dancing and entertainment venue which do its primary business after dark. A night club can be distinguished from other forms of such as bars, pubs or tavern, by the inclusion of a dance floor and a DJ booth, where the DJ plays recorded dance and pop music. Some night clubs have other form of entertainment such as comedians, “go-go” dancers, a floor show or strippers. 8

9. Types of Bar/Entertainment Combination Internet café or cybercafé is a place where one can use a computer with internet access for a fee, usually per hour or minute charge; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month. It may or may not serve as a regular café as well, with food and drinks being served. Videoke bars . A very popular for of bar and entertainment where guests are the ones singing or performing. 9

10. Types of Bar/Entertainment Combination Sports bars/pool bars . Pool or other sports and watching sports event are the main entertainment offered in this type of bar. Comedy bars . A type of entertainment bar where stand-up comedians performs to entertain the guests while having their drinks and food. 10

11. Types of Bar/Entertainment Combination KTV bars are the modern concept of night clubs. Entertainment is in the form of videoke and live performancesof strip teasers or gogo dancers. Individual entertainers are known as Guest Relation Officers or commonly known as GRO’s are available upon the guests’ request. This GRO’s are housed in a room with one way glass window and they are numbered for easy selection of the guests. They can be tabled in the common guest area or in a VIP room alone with the guest with videoke as the main entertainment. 11

12. Types of Bar/Entertainment Combination Gay bars . This is opposite of KTV bars but this time, patrons are gays and older women or widower looking for a different kind of entertainment similar to KTV bars. 12

13. Food and beverage combination Bar and Restaurant . This type of bar, food and drinks can be served at the same time or the guest can have a drink before dining or dine first before drinking. Tea Houses/Rooms is a small room or restaurant where beverages and light meals are served, often catering chiefly to women and having a sedate or subdued atmosphere. It also serves as a place for business transactions. 13

14. Food and beverage combination Taverns is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and more likely, food is also served. Today, is is an outdoor type with shed or tents covering the entire place. Public Houses/Pubs are a drinking establishments which serve alcoholic drinks especially beer that can be consumed on the premises, usually with a set up like home. Beers served in a pub may be cask ales or keg beers. 14

15. Food and beverage combination Traditionally, the windows of town pubs are smoked or frosted glass so that the clientele are obscured from the streets to have some privacy. The owner, tenant or manager of a public house is known as publican or landlord . E ach pub generally has a crowd of regulars , people who drink there regularly. The pub that people visit most often is called their local . 15

16. Food and beverage combination Brew Pubs/Micro Breweries are pubs or restaurants that brew beer on their premises. Service Bars . These are bars in restaurants only used to prepare drinks of the dining guests. 16

17. Hotel Beverage Operation Lobby bar . The bar located at the lobby area of the hotel, it is usually used by the guest as a venue for business meetings or transactions during night time.in some hotels, it is also considered as the main bar. Coffee Shop . Mostly located in the lobby or near the lobby area where both food and drinks can be served to the guest, particularly coffee. It is usually used by the guests as place for business meetings or transactions. 17

18. Hotel Beverage Operation Cocktail lounge/piano bar . This is where live or piano music is performed. Guest stay here to relax or to unwind. Restaurant bar/service bar . The bar is used to prepare drinks of the dining guest. Disco bar/night club . Where dancing is the form of entertainment. Or the guest could have both food and drinks and dance 18

19. Hotel Beverage Operation Videoke bar . A very popular form of bar and entertainment where the guests are the ones performing. Poolside/pool bar . Bar located at the poolside. Guests take a drink after or during swimming to ease the thirst also, to provide some warmth during colder season. Pool/sports bar . Pool or other sports and watching sports events is the main entertainment offer in this type of bar in a hotel. 19

20. Hotel Beverage Operation Banquet bar . A bar being set up during functions or events in the banquet or meeting rooms in the hotel to provide/serve drinks to the guests of the event or functions Banquet bar set-up: Open bar set up . The guests can order any drinks available in the bar or the main bar of the hotel. But usually, the guests will be the one to pay the bill not the host of the event or function. L imited bar set up . Only the drinks allowed by the host will be served to the guests of the event or function. 20

21. Hotel Beverage Operation Mini-bar . A bar in a guest room for guests’ convenience. Alcoholic drinks in mini-bar are usually in a miniature size bottle to ensure proper inventory of the drinks after the guest have checked out. Usually it is a mini-refrigerator where beverages both alcoholic and non-alcoholic are stored. 21