Hello,

I know this subject has been posted a bunch of times but I'm new to
the group and was hoping for more recent info than the archives (some
of the posts were from 1996).

I recently moved to the Seattle area and am looking for work. I have
never tended bar.

I was a food server long ago (1989) and I only did it p/t for 6 months
and hated it (it was a chain, they had a horrific rep., everything
from managers assaulting waiters to customers getting food poisoning).

I called one Seattle bartending school which quoted me $700 + $70
"registration fee" for a 2 week, 4hr p/day class with job placement
assistance. They said something about "working almost exclusively with
big hotels, Indian casinos, etc." versus the 100+ specialty bars in
downtown Seattle. I tried calling the two other schools listed in the
phone book but apparently this one school has the area tied up.

I tried just going around to a few bars in West Seattle a couple of
weeks ago and giving out my resume. The trouble is, since I have no
tending experience my resume just looks like a clerical resume, which
it is. I was told by one tender that the "bartenders around here have
deep boots." He also said there were more positions downtown but that
those bars had high turn over.

Any thoughts/help from experienced bartenders would be so helpful.

Thanks!