Bartender development programme trains new candidates
Bartenders Workshop and Havana Club Rum offered a free training and employment to 40 previously disadvantaged candidates, through the Bartender Development Programme, which ran last month in Cape Town and Johannesburg as a intensive five-day course.
Bartender trainee Keenan Heynes making a Havana Club Mojito at the Cape Town Bartenders Development Programme workshop.
In addition to receiving their certificates (endorsed by THETA), each candidate was given a cocktail recipe book written by Bartenders Workshop founder, Etienne Schlechter, a Havana Club T-shirt, a bartending kit and entry into the intermediate level course.
The programme aims to help solve the urgent demand in South Africa for skilled bartenders to fill positions in the growing number of high end bars. In keeping with this need, a number of venues have expressed an interest in offering interviews to participants.
For more information, go to www.bartendersworkshop.co.za.
