So You Want to Be a Bartender?
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the world of cocktails and the people who make them.
As Jaega Wise discovers in this programme, it's a world of extremes. On one hand, in the past decade, bartending has become a respectable, profitable career for some. International awards and competitions have thrust people like Monica Berg of London bar Tayēr + Elementary, and Max Hayward of Cardiff's Lab 22 into the media spotlight.
But the other side is darker. Zero hours contracts, long hours, bullying and harassment. And a hospitality industry which is stretched like never before.
In this programme, Jaega Wise speaks to bartenders, business owners and writers to make sense of where the professional bartending world is, and where it's heading. Presented by Jaega Wise.
Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the Food Programme, That Place for Hungry Minds, with me, Jaga Wise. Tell me, do you fancy yourself as a bit of a cocktail expert? |
| 1:08.0 | Or maybe like me, you've spent a lot of time perfecting a signature drink. I've been into margaritas in a big way lately, but maybe |
| 1:17.2 | you prefer cocktails out with friends. Have you ever considered cocktails as a career? |
| 1:22.3 | I didn't really know how to have extent. considered cocktails as a career. |
| 1:23.0 | I didn't really know how extensive this industry was until I joined it. |
| 1:27.0 | The general public sort of don't really know it goes on a lot of the time. |
| 1:30.0 | So the sky is the limit as a bartender. |
| 1:33.0 | Definitely, not even the sky, maybe another galaxy. |
| 1:37.0 | I got invited to go to the UK's Best Cocktail Bar Awards. |
| 1:44.8 | And at the event, I was just absolutely blown away |
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