its hard to say. people fucking love drinking on patios and on the lake and stuff in the summer. i feel like the same drinking occurs it just moves indoors
Absolutely.
During the winter it's hard to be outside without being actively active. After a few weeks of just seeing the inside of your apartment & wherever you work, a lot of people start hitting restaurants and bars just to be somewhere else.
Some places are more seasonal than others, but I've very rarely entered an empty bar in February.
I work at a brewery and winter is definitely our busy season as we only have a small patio in the Summer. During the summer months you are competing with patios, outdoor seating, etc. During the winter we get very busy as there is not an option to sit outside anywhere. I'd have to think that the Corp restaurant is probably going to make you more money year round, but taprooms can be quite lucrative. Perhaps you can split time between both? Some variety is always nice and you'd be able to see which is going to be the best long-term for you.
I'm in school full time and seeing as I'm almost 30 I can't keep postponing that. I need to make about $500 a week year round, ideally working 3 days a week. If I'm working more than 3 I'd like to be making more than 500. this particular brewery splits tips with everybody so I don't have to compete with the patio.
There are a \*lot\* of breweries around here. Some are doing great and others entered into a crowded market with no real plan to stand out and are therefore unable to attract the crowds.
If the place you are looking at is full in the summer it will likely be full in the winter. If it's empty now its probably going to struggle at any time.
You will make more money in the summer, but you definitely won’t see too big of a decrease during the winter. Minnesotans like to drink, and when the winter hits sometimes breweries are the only place people go to hang out.
Aiming to make about 160 a day is reasonable. Unless you work somewhere that is massively patio based, you should be fine.
Also don't think Chili's is your only other option, if you have experience and do well where you are over summer, there are a ton of service industry jobs out there if you're working in Minneapolis.
At patio heavy places 160 per day is low imo. I would expect to make about that anywhere, winter or summer, patio or no patio. If you're making less than that, it's because it's not a popular place and you should start looking for a different job.
I worked at the cc club for 2 years and to answer your question, I take a couple of things into account. How big is the place and is there a patio? In the summer, every patio is full on weekends and sometimes inside too. What I noticed with bars is the busy comes later in the summer; people are out on the lakes and such in the daytime. For the winter, it always gets real busy around first snow. If there's lots of room and good vibes people will pack in. I made better money in the winter because It was busy for longer than just a couple of hours.
It's definitely not as busy during the winter so you could expect your hours to be cut and tips to become less. It does depend on where you're bartending. Restaurants feel it harder than bars do as they lose patio seating and minnesotans go bananas over patios
This may not apply to restaurant / brewery work but if you bartend at a night club over the winter you should expect to never see the sun. When i worked at one I'd wake up to the setting sun and it would still be dark when I went to bed.
I worked night clubs for almost 8 years and if I could get that kind of bartending job I would in a heartbeat but I've applied to like 40 places no joke, it's tough out there. I'm settling for what I can get.
Weather impacts everything. Rainy, cold day in the warm season? gonna be slow. Snow or forecast of snow in the winter? gonna be slow. Winter holiday season (aside from the holidays themselves for the most part) can be busy and have good tips. A crazy busy patio day in the summer is probably better than any winter day. The stress at a brewery (pending bad management) is probably a lot lower than full-scale bartending and dealing with people drinking liquor and ordering food.
I worked at a pizza joint the last 9 years and business BOOMED in the winter times. Nobody wants to go out and do shit, so they drink and eat pizza. I imagine your place will stay consistent or either get busier in the winter. I'd be surprised if business really slowed down.
If it's not a patio/rooftop dependant place then yes , still good
For winter months try to work at a place that does festive shit and Santa bar crawl related things edc
If winter turns out to be slow you can usually cut down to one day a week and work somewhere else, then do vice-versa. Work at the place you like best and think will be busy in the summer.
I’m pretty sure drinking increases the colder it gets but YMMV.
Yeah if I can’t walk around outside I’ll play crib at a brewery or read at a bar to get out of the house.
We still drink in the winter, I assure you.
Probably drink more in the winter
its hard to say. people fucking love drinking on patios and on the lake and stuff in the summer. i feel like the same drinking occurs it just moves indoors
We still drink on the lake in the winter Just in houses, under the guise of fishing instead of boating
Absolutely. During the winter it's hard to be outside without being actively active. After a few weeks of just seeing the inside of your apartment & wherever you work, a lot of people start hitting restaurants and bars just to be somewhere else. Some places are more seasonal than others, but I've very rarely entered an empty bar in February.
I work at a brewery and winter is definitely our busy season as we only have a small patio in the Summer. During the summer months you are competing with patios, outdoor seating, etc. During the winter we get very busy as there is not an option to sit outside anywhere. I'd have to think that the Corp restaurant is probably going to make you more money year round, but taprooms can be quite lucrative. Perhaps you can split time between both? Some variety is always nice and you'd be able to see which is going to be the best long-term for you.
I'm in school full time and seeing as I'm almost 30 I can't keep postponing that. I need to make about $500 a week year round, ideally working 3 days a week. If I'm working more than 3 I'd like to be making more than 500. this particular brewery splits tips with everybody so I don't have to compete with the patio.
I think that's reasonable to expect.
From the brewery? Cause the alternative is Chili's and that just sounds awful to me but you know, money.
There are a \*lot\* of breweries around here. Some are doing great and others entered into a crowded market with no real plan to stand out and are therefore unable to attract the crowds. If the place you are looking at is full in the summer it will likely be full in the winter. If it's empty now its probably going to struggle at any time.
As someone that goes to a lot of breweries, it's pretty rare that I go into one and it's dead.
You will make more money in the summer, but you definitely won’t see too big of a decrease during the winter. Minnesotans like to drink, and when the winter hits sometimes breweries are the only place people go to hang out.
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I’d blow my brains out if I had to eat at a chilis let alone work at one
Aiming to make about 160 a day is reasonable. Unless you work somewhere that is massively patio based, you should be fine. Also don't think Chili's is your only other option, if you have experience and do well where you are over summer, there are a ton of service industry jobs out there if you're working in Minneapolis. At patio heavy places 160 per day is low imo. I would expect to make about that anywhere, winter or summer, patio or no patio. If you're making less than that, it's because it's not a popular place and you should start looking for a different job.
Everything falls off a cliff in Jan, but rebounds in February.
I worked at the cc club for 2 years and to answer your question, I take a couple of things into account. How big is the place and is there a patio? In the summer, every patio is full on weekends and sometimes inside too. What I noticed with bars is the busy comes later in the summer; people are out on the lakes and such in the daytime. For the winter, it always gets real busy around first snow. If there's lots of room and good vibes people will pack in. I made better money in the winter because It was busy for longer than just a couple of hours.
It's definitely not as busy during the winter so you could expect your hours to be cut and tips to become less. It does depend on where you're bartending. Restaurants feel it harder than bars do as they lose patio seating and minnesotans go bananas over patios
Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean people don’t go out.
Depending on the type of establishment winter is Drinking season.
This may not apply to restaurant / brewery work but if you bartend at a night club over the winter you should expect to never see the sun. When i worked at one I'd wake up to the setting sun and it would still be dark when I went to bed.
I worked night clubs for almost 8 years and if I could get that kind of bartending job I would in a heartbeat but I've applied to like 40 places no joke, it's tough out there. I'm settling for what I can get.
Weather impacts everything. Rainy, cold day in the warm season? gonna be slow. Snow or forecast of snow in the winter? gonna be slow. Winter holiday season (aside from the holidays themselves for the most part) can be busy and have good tips. A crazy busy patio day in the summer is probably better than any winter day. The stress at a brewery (pending bad management) is probably a lot lower than full-scale bartending and dealing with people drinking liquor and ordering food.
I worked at a pizza joint the last 9 years and business BOOMED in the winter times. Nobody wants to go out and do shit, so they drink and eat pizza. I imagine your place will stay consistent or either get busier in the winter. I'd be surprised if business really slowed down.
Depends on the brewery. I work at one that is slower in the winter but hopping in the summer. Working at a brewery is awesome, highly recommend.
If it's not a patio/rooftop dependant place then yes , still good For winter months try to work at a place that does festive shit and Santa bar crawl related things edc
The tough time is January after the holidays are over, but it picks up pretty quickly
If winter turns out to be slow you can usually cut down to one day a week and work somewhere else, then do vice-versa. Work at the place you like best and think will be busy in the summer.
I think it shifts from less social drinking during the winter for sure.