RSA Training – Always be Prepared
As a bartender, you will find that there are slow nights and there are nights that you barely have time to breath, luckily RSA training is here to help. There will be nights when you wish that you had never even clocked in. And there will be times when you find yourself ill prepared. You will kick yourself for not having extra this or one of those and you will learn from every situation, because RSA training Australia can only teach you preliminary requirements and your experience is crucial to learning. Some bartenders carry a bag of some sort, filled with their individual “must haves”. Here are a few things that you might want to keep packed in a bag and stored in your vehicle or behind the bar. This RSA Training will teach you what you need to keep handy and why.
RSA – Training you in things to always have handy
1. Extra Shoes: Sometimes you may come close to trading your soul for a pair of flip flops when you wear a new pair of shoes to work.
2. Panadol: this can come in handy for you or a cranky customer, but with RSA training you shouldn’t need panadol to calm a customer.
3. Safety Pins: You never know when a wardrobe mishap will happen.
4. Spare Change Of Clothes: In case the wardrobe mishap is bigger than a safety pin can fix.
5. Super Glue: Band Aids just don’t work on a bartenders fingers, but super glue can close a wound and get you back to slinging drinks in no time.
6. Snack: Museli bar, peanuts, crackers… anything to stave off hunger when you need a quick snack. Snacks will sustain you when trying to remember all those RSA training tips!
7. Lighters: Even if you don’t smoke, it is nice to have a lighter for those who have lost theirs.
8. Spare Keys
9. Chewing Gum
10. Condoms: Even if you don’t need them, someone will. And people who have been drinking will often overlook this sort of protection. You can’t keep people from going home with each other, but you can offer them some protection. Safe sex is nothing to be squeamish about.
11. Ponytail Holders: Women who have been dancing and are sweaty will ask for them ALL THE TIME.
12. (LADIES) Sanitary Napkins or Tampons: Not only is it a good idea to keep them for yourself, but women will ask you if you have them.
13. Deodorant: You will sweat!
14. Eye Drops: If you work in a smoking environment, you may find this handy.
15. Nail File: You will break nails.
16. Pens: It never fails, the busiest nights are when all the pens disappear.
17. Deck of Playing Cards: There is a guy in every crowd who will ask for them, I don’t get it but there is.
18. Phone Book: Never hurts to have one on hand, in case the bar gremlins hijack the bar’s phonebook.
In addition to these 18 things you should bring to work, you may want to check out a bartenders 5 things they learned about bar tending.
In addition to these 18 must haves behind your counter, always know how to use the basic bar tools that are already present, for your mixology. Check out the video below – (not presented by RSA training online).