Without professional experience as a bartender, you will find it very difficult to find employment as a chef de bar, even after thorough training. However, you can attend a course to become a bar professional even without bar experience and work your way up to head bartender after some time.

To become a chef de bar, you need above all experience, skill and comprehensive knowledge in a wide variety of areas, such as product knowledge, communication, hygiene regulations, guest service, mise en place, your own creations and much more. Comprehensive training is therefore the easiest and safest way to become a bar manager. An apprenticeship as a restaurant specialist with subsequent professional experience and continuing education, further training as a restaurant manager are the best prerequisites for this job. If you have other training, special professional bar courses can be the ideal introduction to the world of bartending. Further seminars on a wide range of topics, such as show mixing or wine knowledge, round off your profile.

A course that prepares you for a job as a chef de bar is not a lengthy continuing education, further training course lasting several months or more, but is usually a seminar that lasts no longer than five days. Further training courses for experienced bartenders are usually even shorter and can therefore be conveniently attended at the same time as bartending.

A course to become a chef de bar or a professional bar course is not a federally recognized continuing education, further training, but an internal course that awards you the diploma of the corresponding bar school.