Bar Manager

Job Duties

• Managing the business aspects of the bar, such as keeping a current liquor license, negotiating supplier contracts, taking/maintaining inventory and reordering supplies, managing budgets, and setting goals
• Recruit, interview, hire and train new bar staff employees
• Handle customer complaints
• Ensure staff is following all food control and safety regulations
• Create employee schedules based on expected customer numbers
• Determines employees’ schedules
• Ensures bar is well-stocked and clean
• Tracks customer behavior and sales
• Maintains budget and monitors costs
• Maintains drink recipe documentation
• Oversees planning for special events
• Appropriately delegates tasks to staff
• Selects and purchases liquor and other supplies
• Oversees staff, including bartenders and barbacks, and, in some cases, bouncers, wait staff, and/or kitchen staff as well
• Hires, trains, promotes, and, when necessary, disciplines or fires staff
• Selects music, books bands, and provides input on décor and marketing, including social media and other forms of publicity
• Initiates and maintains vendor relationships
• Uses point-of-sale tracking technology and bar and restaurant management platform
• Diffuses tense situations between patrons or staff members to prevent possible safety or legal issues, ejecting unruly persons, if needed
• Maintains a fun, safe atmosphere for patrons

Qualifications/Skills

• Accomplished mixologist
• Excellent multitasking ability
• Problem-solving skills
• Interpersonal relationship skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong leadership ability
• Organizational and customer service skills
• Knowledge of food, beverage, and hospitality industries
• Calm under pressure
• Able to maintain restraint in stressful situations
• Able to deescalate tense interactions
• Judgment and creativity
• Math / financial skills
• Comfortable with hospitality and sales technology platforms
• Enthusiastic and energetic