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NQAI level: 5, Places: 40
Course Duration: One year
Warren McElhone
Certificate in
Bar Service
Operations
Why Study Bar Service Operations?
You will gain the knowledge, skills and competencies necessary to work as a
professional bartender in the hotel, catering and licensed trade industry.
Course Subjects/Modules
License Trade Operations (bar operations, wine studies and lounge service,
hygiene, health and safety, control issues, legal issues), Information Technology
I first started working in hotels during my junior certificate year. I gained
(operating systems, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation
experience working in all departments of a local hotel. After completing my
packages, networks, contemporary issues in the licensed trade), Communications
leaving cert in 2002, I was offered a place on the two-year National
and Professional Development (communications, customer care/quality service,
Certificate in Hospitality Skills course in GMIT. Each year I was required to
disability awareness, work and leisure, health and stress management, profile of carry out an industrial placement: my first placement was in the five star
the tourism industry), Language studies. Dromoland Castle, working in all areas of the hotel - bar, restaurant,
reception, hospitality, nights and banqueting.
Minimum Education Entry Requirements:
Applicants should have reached Leaving Certificate or NCVA Level 2 standard of
I have represented the college in many competitions at both national and
education.
international levels: for example, I won a gold medal at the CATEX
competition in Dublin in 2005 and I received a silver medal at the European
Career Opportunities
Graduates will have excellent opportunities to work as professional bartenders
Catering Association competition in Turkey in 2006.
in the hotel, catering and licensed trade industry or with further experience and
study to supervisory or management grades within the licensed trade.
Upon successful completion of the Hospitality Skills course, I transferred onto
the Hotel Management Block Release Year 4. This meant completing a one
Other Essential Information year work placement which I did in Raymond Blanc’s two star Michelin
Work Placement restaurant, Le Manoir Aux Quat Saisons in Oxford, England. While studying
Work based learning is an integral part of this course.
this course, I completed a National Certificate in Professional Wine Studies in
Students spend the first two weeks of their course full-time in college. For the
the evenings, I intend to pursue this to complete the Diploma in Wines
next 16 weeks students spend three days per week in college and two days per
through the Wine Board of Ireland. I commenced studying on the BA (Hons)
week in industry. The last two weeks are spent full-time in college.
Hotel and Catering Management in 2007.
Students then undertake a 6 months block of supervised work experience in
industry from the time they finish in college until September.
Warren McElhone
Follow-on Studies
Graduates may progress, subject to satisfactory results, to the Advanced
Certificate in Bar Skills and other suitable courses within the School of Hotel and
Catering Studies.
Contact: Gerry Talbot Tel: 091-742320 E-mail: gerry.talbot@gmit.ie
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