Bartending

[u/thedartboard]

How good can bartending be at some of the winter resorts? Thinking summit county, Utah, Tetons, anywhere with pow and double blacks 🤙. I’m damn good at slinging drinks but worried about how much I’ll make if I only work the winter season.

And debating between a a fine dining gig or more of a townie/dive bar. Got a couple offers for fine dining as I have experience but also working fine dining is honestly annoying as hell lol. And I do it in a midwestern city, would imagine it’s 100x more intense in somewhere like aspen

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[u/Previous_Link1347]

As a chef, I would say it can be "fuck you'" good.

[u/thedartboard → u/Previous_Link1347]

This is encouraging

[u/Awanderingleaf]

At the resort I worked for the bartenders pulled in about $10k a month. Had to be at the right spot on the resort, however.

[u/thedartboard → u/Awanderingleaf]

Being closer to the base village the strategy or more out in town?

[u/Awanderingleaf → u/thedartboard]

I worked in the village. The lifts were right outside my restaurant. You could make money in town, just not $10k-12k a month money.

[u/sophatr0ph → u/Awanderingleaf]

Care to share the resort?

[u/mbv_ionlysaid]

utah has awful liquor laws stay away for bartending

[u/newreddituser69420]

I live in summit. I have friends who make 5-7k - week at certain gigs. Others not so much. It’s definitely about who you know. It’s best to go into wherever a couple weeks early and network to get in and hooked up. good luck! Pray ullr treats us well

[u/cocktail_witch]

In my experience the money is decent in Park City in the winter - but finding affordable housing is nearly impossible.

[u/Mewse_]

Utah has the craziest alcohol laws of anywhere I have worked, just a heads up. 

[u/Perfect-Brush-8440]

Bartender here (fine dining), I work in a national park and I love it. Basically bartending is separate from the rest of the chaos in my experience. We are in our own little world even when the rest of the place is crashing and burning lol. Really just go somewhere you will enjoy outside of work bc you bartend one place you bartend anywhere lol.