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recommends using a mixture of plagiarism
UIforwardFeeling secure with BII
and substitution to create your own drinks,
One of Scotland’s largest door
and with grape being the base ingredient for Option 1’s Russel Kerr
supervisor suppliers, Option 1 Security,
Cognac, it is ideally suited to Champagne with BII’s Janet Hood.
has enrolled 179 of its staff as members
cocktails. “Cognac is there to be championed,”
of BII.
says Ben. “It’s a versatile spirit and there’s a
Russel Kerr, managing director of
lot to play with. Rum has done so much lately
Edinburgh-based Option 1, said he was
for dark sprits, so let’s incorporate Cognac into
impressed with the level of support and
that. This training course has shown how that
the variety of benefits available from
can be done.”
the new BII door supervisor company
In fact, Courvoisier Exclusif, a variation on its
membership scheme, and wanted his
VSOP, has been created to be mixed and
staff to take advantage.
brand manager Clare Richards says it is ideal
Staff recruitment and retention are
for use in cocktails. “The blend is perfectly
key priorities for Option 1 and, in a
suited to bring out the best of the spirit in
climate where good quality door
cocktails,” she says. “There’s a lot of work
supervisors are highly sought after, it is
going into promoting Cognac and we want
all the more important for companies
bartenders to be able to take advantage of the
such as Option 1 to be known as great to
trend. VS is a very big market, and should be
work for. Russel already invests heavily in his staff and he sees BII membership as a
behind the bar.”
credible addition to his employee offering.
So perhaps its time to add a Cognac
BII’s new door supervisor membership category offers a wealth of benefits, including
cocktail to your list – or perhaps recommend
professional status, nationally-recognised qualifications and up-to-date information on
a Cognac and soda to a customer. The
legislation and other matters affecting the industry.
Cognac houses are finally working hard to
Says Russel: “Membership offers our staff the pride, recognition and professional status
change the image of the drink, in order to
they deserve for doing what is an extremely demanding and, at times, dangerous job.”
make it appeal to a younger age group and
BII door supervisor membership is available in two categories. The basic requirement
lose its stigma of being consumed in a
for either category is passing the Level 2 National Certificate for Door Supervisors or
balloon glass only after dinner in the drawing
National Certificate for Door Supervisors (Scotland). Categories and costs are: Graduate
room. As Mark says: “they must be doing
Door Supervisor (no SIA badge)£39 +VAT with no joining fee; and Associate Door
something right to have being producing it for
Supervisor (with SIA badge)£39 +VAT plus £25 +VAT joining fee.
350 years.”
Thee clock’ss ticking!
Amidst all the fuss about the Scottish Government’s latest alcohol reform licence applications and to put personal licence applications on the back-burner.
proposals it is important that we don’t forget the transition to the new Licensing
Individual licensees, faced with the problems and expense of premises licence
Act. I applaud the fact that the Scottish Government gave an 18 month period to
applications have, in may cases, postponed their personal licence training and
transition to the new premises and personal licences, but unintended problems
applications to next year. I can well understand why. They’re thinking “there’s a
are arising.
year to go, so what’s the hurry ” Well, the problem is you could find yourself at
Central government sees the new licensing regime as a simplification of
the back of a very long queue if you leave it too late Not only is there a backlog
procedures. The instinct of local government is to meddle – and complications
of personal licence applications to be processed by licensing authorities – seven
over submitting licensing plans, disabled toilets, the presence of personal licence
holders on premises and a host other matters have complicated and slowed
months in some cases - but part of that process is a criminal records check
down the whole process. Add to this the fact that it looks likely that at least one
conducted by the police – another potential pinch-point.
in six premises will have missed their deadline for the submission of premises Without a personal licence holder to designate as the Premises Manager (by
licence applications - and you can see how things might begin to back up.
December 2009), you won’t be able to open the doors. Get your SCPLH training
The policy that many licensing authorities have adopted is to prioritise premise done and your personal licence application lodged ASAP – the clock’s ticking!
Paull Chase CPLL Trainingg Scotland,
paul.chase@cpltraining.co.uk
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