We as the public usually only see the bright side to a restaurant job. Media never seems to portray the ugly side of anything. Many jobs are portrayed on television totally different from what they really are in true life and then the public start to believe that is the way life should be.
An excellent example of a false media portrayal of job function is a bartender. A bartender is a skilled employee who mixes drinks at a bar but there are just as many other important employees who also make up the big picture in a business. Their interactions with the public depend on what type of establishment they work in.
If a bartender is working in a high end or fancy type of restaurant, he/she may have little or no contact with the customers. It would be the wait staff that would be interacting with them. In a smaller, more casual bar setting, the bartender could be constantly interacting with the customer. Depending on where they are working, whether it be a restaurant or a dance club, determines how much they deal with the customer. Bartenders make great tips if they are dealing with the public and give great customer service just like any other employee that works in the service industry.
The media has made many bartenders that we see in our favourite tv show week to week a superhuman adviser who lends out advice with any given problem. If this were true this person wouldn’t be a bartender but would be working in another profession. Bartending can be hard work but can also be fun. As any other job in the service industry, it requires excellent customer service skills at all times and also a good knowledge of the job. There are many bartending schools that train people (males and females) to qualify them for a good bartending job.
It amazing what we see in the media. Wow a bartender is as fantatic as Superman..not quite. What we watch and read has such an enormous effect on the public and what they believe in. People in the entertainment business know how to entice us into watching something by making making it look glamorous.
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