From Barista to Bar Manager:

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BARISTA TO BAR MANAGEMENT
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Introduction
With the emergence of technology and culture, the trend of visiting a coffee shop for casual
meet up or visiting a bar on weekend has become highly popular. The disposable income of
people has grown with time which in turn is encouraging trend to a great extent. The term
Barista, coffee shop or café refers to an organization that offers the consumers with coffee and
often snacks. Bar management includes operating as well as running an establishment which
serves the consumers with alcoholic beverages. Entertainment is a crucial part of the bar
management. Managing a bar involves effective management of a good variety of employees
like bartenders, servers as well as bouncers. One of the chief responsibility of a bar manager
includes keeping an up to date liquor license, negotiating the contracts of the suppliers taking
reordering an inventory supplies, setting goals as well as managing budgets (Bradshaw, 2017).
With the emerging growth of the coffee shops, bar culture and elaborate beverages across the
world this assessment had aimed to explore as well as investigate the drink industry along with
the best practices that makes a beverage business successful.
Classification of catering institution
The catering industry often refers to a part of the hospitality industry which provides food,
drink and in several cases accomodation for individuals in hospitals, schools as well as
industries. In the following paragraphs, types of catering institution available in Europe,
definition of bar and types of bars along with their difference and particular qualities has been
discussed.

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Types of catering institution
The catering institution can be segregated into two parts namely, primary or commercial catering
and secondary or noncommercial catering. Primary careering refers to the establishment whose
chief aim is to earn profit with the help of providing food as well as beverages to the consumers
as per their demands and thus are called commercial catering. Some major types of commercial
careering institutions includes hotels, restaurant, fast food outlet, pubs and bars. Commercial
catering can be further categorizes into residential and non-residential catering. While residential
catering institutions like hotels, motels and resorts provides food beverages and accommodations
to the consumers, non-residential catering institutions like bars, pubs, night clubs, coffee shops
and restaurants only provides foods and beverages to the same (Benin, Semenov & Ekaterina,
2016).
When it comes to the secondary or no commercial catering in, they includes
establishments that provide both food and beverages as a part of other businesses. Thus, unlike
the commercial catering institutions, their aim does not includes earning money. In contrast, they
aim to provide welfare services at affordable price range like industrial canteens, school or
college canteens, hospitals, airline catering, cruise lines and ships. Unlike the commercial
catering institutions, the consumers do not possess the choice of catering facilities. The chief
types of noncommercial catering includes institutional catering, transport catering, airline
catering, railway catering, ship catering, industrial catering and surface catering (Januš et al.,
2018). While institutional catering includes academic institutions, hospitals, orphanages, prisons,
and old age homes, transport catering includes providing food items and beverages to the
passengers, before and during their journey. In both the cases, he catering services are
completely or partially subsidized by a good number of government fund. Surface catering refer

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to the eating establishments that are located at bus terminus or highways. Thy may be either
government run or privately owned establishment.
Definition of Bar
A bar refers to an establishment that serves the consumers with alcoholic beverages like
beer, liquor, wine, cocktail as well as other on alcoholic beverages like soft drinks and water.
Along with beverages, majority of the bars re found to be providing the consumer with snack
food items lie potato chips, peanuts. Several types of bar like pubs also offers the consumers with
dishes like a restaurants. In several areas, the term “bar” typically defines only the area where the
alcoholic drinks get served.
Types of bars
There exist a great variety of bars and bars can be classified according to various
principles. Bars can be classified by taking into consideration the food and beverage assortment
category that are offered to the consumers the category of consumers traditionally gathered in the
bar and the type of activates and entertainments that are arranged in the premises.
When it comes to classification of the bars on the basis of the food assortment offered, it
includes, wine bars, beer bars, cocktail bars as well as milk bars. Wine bars offers the consumers
with a great variety of wines from different parts of the word. When it comes to cocktail bars, it
is defined as the place here a great variety of cocktails and mock tails are offered to the
consumers. A beer bar refers to the institution where all types of beers are on sale (Simkin &
Schmidt, 2019).
When it comes to the classification of bars based on the types of gathering, it can be classified
into the following: