• Set-Up • Tools • Glasses • Barback & HACCP • Fruit and Garnish • Table service management • Pouring • Commodity study • Preparation techniques • The taste • The structure of the cocktails • Balance • Classic recipes
PROGRAM TOPICS COVERED
Not only technique … but also personal growth! Vitaly Kolpin’s training format includes a series of technical and psychological notions to make the preparation of a drink a unique experience for the customer:
1. The professionalism behind the bar – What it means to be a professional bartender. The most important features. – Psychological approach and customer loyalty – Using perceptions to understand who you are in front of (the guest) – What is the flair behind the counter and why we do it
2. Manual skills – How to improve it and for what purpose. How it helps us in everyday work. – Development of memory, imagination and concentration. – Concentration and coordination exercises.
3. Properties of language – How to exploit it at the bar and in the profession – Speaking in a clearer and more understandable way
4. Positive Thinking – Positive thinking in everyday life, and in every situation – How to exploit it at the bar and in the profession
5. Pouring, handles, pouring techniques – Basic pouring techniques. Learn to pour quickly, spectacularly, without drops and spills – Pour on the bar top (various handles, various glasses) – Free pouring in the shaker and jigger – Pour with both hands
6. Finger skills – Exercises to improve dexterity – Micro movements with spoon, muddler and jigger
7. Jigger movements and combinations.
8. Basic and advanced movements with spoon (both hands)
9. Movements with the shaker – Boston Shaker – Cobbler shaker
10. Movements with coasters, napkins and straws
The opportunity to meet and know one of the most successful F&B manager, who has joined important companies worldwide, such as the prestigious Jumeirah group. A masterclass where Fabio Raucci will reveal secrets, studies to follow the right path that leads to this fundamental position through the scenario of modern hospitality.
Stelios Sakalis is a starred Greek chef but he’s been living for more than a decade in Italy and he will make you discover his cuisine made by a fusion between eastern and western flavours with a definitely rollercoaster cuisine where strong and intense flavours alternate with more delicate ones. He has collaborated with great chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal, Giancarlo Perbellini, Simone Zanoni and Ettore Bodrini. His background may give us an idea about the experience and creativity of our Stelios.