Having trained bartenders and helped them get jobs since 1968 we have found that some of the best positions are with hotels throughout the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia region.
Compared to most other bartending jobs, hotels normally offer higher base salaries, provide health benefits, and often travel benefits for their hotel chain. Additionally the hotels host meetings, conventions and parties offering a wide range of opportunities for bartenders to be busy and earn significant tips. Major hotels in the region’s business areas maintain high occupancy rates during the week. Hotel customers fly into the region to do business and consult with DC based clients and are often captive clients of the hotel restaurants and bars.
Some unique aspects of hotel bartending include some of the best opportunities for day shift bartending income, excellent opportunities to earn significant income in the early part of the week from Sunday through Wednesday, and frequent opportunities for catering and parties throughout the year. In fact, a number of hotels regularly hire from our party staff to augment their catering events. Additionally, more and more hotels develop excellent dining that becomes a haven for neighborhood dining or after work food and drinks. Strong hotel bartenders develop regulars, as do the bartenders in any restaurant or bar.
The Washington region supports an enormous number of hotel rooms that span the area including significant number of hotels close to its three major airports near Baltimore, Dulles, Virginia and Reagan National located just outside of Washington DC. Downtown DC is a hotel Mecca and the Tyson’s Corner area in Virginia is additionally an area with many hotel rooms and extraordinary accommodations.
During 2005 we saw grads land jobs at the exclusive Hay-Adams hotel (voted in Forbes magazine as one of the top 25 hotel bars in the world), the Ritz-Carleton, Hotel Madera (our grad Rachel was voted DC bartender of the month by the Washington Post) and hotels ranging from resorts outside of Richmond to Baltimore including many hotels throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. Additionally, we trained hotel bartenders in the Caribbean on Dominica Island, have regularly trained bartenders for hotels throughout the world, and have additionally provided Alcohol Management certification classes for various hotel staffs throughout the region.
If you’re thinking of bartending don’t forget hotels.Our hands-on school, http://www.bartending-school.com The Professional Bartending School for DC Maryland and Virginia, has been the premier source for bartenders in this area for many decades. Most grads don’t think about hotels and yet they provide some of the best opportunities for bartenders region wide. Likewise they provide great bartending jobs throughout the nation and worldwide. |
