Bar Staff Review

Serving customers using a bar service style, pouring drinks and taking food orders, general bar upkeep, restocking

Yes ive learnt how the pub runs behind the scenes and other technical skills needed for bar work eg changing kegs, cleaning beer lines, refilling fruit machines etc.

I do as its not too high maintenance and its easy to keep up with.

It's okay as most of it is online it isn't organised very well and I don't get a lot of support but my tutor is happy that I'm doing well with the course so it may just be me.

Not a lot, they expect me to do it in my own time. My assistant manager has offered to help me and she has but my manager doesn't seem interested

As previously stated, he has said that I'm doing well so I'm not worried about my qualifications but my only contact with him is on a once a month virtual call that lasts no longer than an hour so basically I get no support at all, he records me doing a professional discussion, shows me what web links to read for next month and then were done

The learning I have done is somewhat helpful in a broad sense but it is hardly linked to my specialism which is frustrating. I understand I have to learn about the whole industry, but I work in a pub and most of what i have learnt about is silver service and formal dining which is useless knowledge to me because i will never have to apply it in my work. Meanwhile there are no modules at all on working behind a bar! Wrong apprenticeship for me, I think, but if it means i can progress onto a more niche bar qualification then ill be satisfied

no

Yes

They give us lots of incentives and bonuses around christmas.

Greene king is a good employer as a whole but it really depends more on the pub you're applying at and the team there.