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TGIF!!!!

Double check your inventory.  

Double check your staffing.  

Purchase a tasty beverage.

Go home and enjoy the weekend with your family and friends!

Cathy Pletta

Kasson 

The City of Isle is accepting applications for a highly motivated individual to manage and direct the Isle Municipal Liquor Store off-sale and on-sale operations.  

This position involves administrative, direct customer-support, and is physically demanding.  

Also responsible for financial operations, personnel, inventory control, prepare monthly reports to City Council, customer service and other duties pertaining to the liquor store operations.  

A high value will be placed on the ability to perform effective promotions, marketing skills and food handling knowledge, abilities and certifications.

Minimum requirements for the position are: 3 years management experience with municipal liquor or similar operations, including retail sales experience; valid driver's license; proficiency with office equipment and computerized cashiering systems; and considerable knowledge of business management practices.

Applications are available at the City of Isle City Hall, or online at www.cityofisle.com.

Submit application and resume to 285 2nd Ave. S. P.O. Box 427, Isle MN 56342.  

Applications accepted until position filled. 

City of Isle is E.E.O.

The City of Vesta is seeking applications for a full-time Municipal Liquor Manager.  

Position reports to a five member council.  

Duties include but are not limited to:inventory control, buying, pricing, staffing, budgeting, merchandising, building maintenance, marketing, event planning, and reporting sales and operations of the store.

Preferred candidates will possess experience in customer service,

Must be at least 21 and be eligible to be bonded and ability to receive a food license.

Wage depending on experience.  

Full job description and application can be obtained by e-mailing cityofvesta@mvtvwireless.com, going online to www.vestamn.us or stopping into the city office.

Send cover letter, resume, and references to:

City of Vesta

Po Box 214

Vesta, MN  56292

cityofvesta@mvtvwireless.com 

All applications should be received/postmarked by 2:00 p.m. July 28th, 2015.

1.  USE BOTH HANDS. When one hand is doing something, always have the other one doing something else.  If your right hand is pouring vodka, grab the soda gun with the left to add the mixer.  If your right hand is shaking a shot, set up shot glasses with the left.  You get the idea.  This saves time and looks like you know what you're doing.

2.  KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND FACING OUT.   This may sound like common sense, but all to often, we see bartenders looking down or not paying attention to their surroundings.  When you're finishing one order, be focused and looking for the next order.  This will make you, and the bar, more money.

3.  DON'T MAKE ONE DRINK AT A TIME.  Get the entire order from the group before you start mixing up the drinks.  It might be the case that everyone in a specific group wants a vodka soda.  If you get all 5 orders at once, you have just saved yourself a lot of time.  This way you can line up 5 cups and bang out all the vodka sodas at once.

4.  PRACTICE HANDLING MONEY.  Every experienced, fast bartender is fast with counting and handling cash.  Get a stack of 100 singles from the bank and practice rifling through them while keeping an accurate count.  This will increase your speed when dealing with cash payments behind the bar.

5.  LEARN HOW TO BACKHAND (REVERSE GRIP) POUR:  This is how most professional bartenders pour.   It is faster, more accurate, and mechanically better for your wrist.  On your own time, fill a liquor bottle with water and practice this until it feels comfortable.   

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6.  KEEP YOUR AREA CLEAN.  Nothing looks worse than a sloppy bartender.  When you have downtime throughout the night, clean your bar, your drink rail, and your bar utensils.  This makes your area look more presentable and makes you appear much more professional.

7.  LEAVE ROOM AT THE TOP OF EACH DRINK.  Do not fill your drinks to the brim.  This makes any transport of the drinks result in a spill that get on people's clothes or, at the very least, on their hands.  Leave about a quarter inch at the top of each drink you pour.

8.  HAVE ALL OF YOUR NECESSARY EQUIPMENT.  You will get behind and in the weeds if you spend 10 minutes looking for a wine key or bottle opener.  Start each shift with all of the things you need for the night.  This usually includes: shakers, a strainer, bottle opener, flashlight, wine key, pens, rubber-bands, etc.

9.  KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE YOUR INVENTORY.  Your patrons will not trust your bar expertise if you pronounce Cointreau as  

"COIN-tri-oo". 

Have a look at this list and practice:

PROPER BAR PRONUCIATION 

10.  DO NOT GET DRUNK.  This one may also seem like common sense but it is another problem we all see at nightspots: drunk bar staff.  If you need a shot, you can handle a shot, and you're allowed to take a shot; take one.  But BE PROFESSIONAL.  There is no excuse for drinking to the point where you are messing things up and/or visibly drunk.