What is bar? What are the different types of beverage service industry. Packed for you to read, study and learn about bar and bar and beverage industry.

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2.  Beverage Service Industry is comprised of
establishments or businesses that offer primarily
beverage, foods and sometimes with
entertainment and other services.
 Bars are establishments or businesses that
primarily offer beverages, foods and sometimes
with entertainment and other services offer to its
customers.
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3.  Beverage-Only Bar
It serves beverage alone. No food is being
served beyond snacks. This type of bar is usually
located near terminals or stations.
 Bar/Entertainment Combination
Bars offering drinks and a range of
entertainment.
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4.  Food and Beverage Combination
It serves food with beverage usually linked
with some kind of food service.
 Hotel Beverage Operation
Three or more bars in one roof with different
purpose and ambience. Usually, the types of bar
found inside the hotel are both bar-entertainment
and food and beverage combination bars.
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5.  Airline Beverage Service
Bars in commercial passenger planes serving
drinks to the passenger. Usually the bar can be
found in the business class section of the plane. For
the passenger in the economy class, if they ordered
a drink or a shot drink, it is served in a miniature
sized bottle together with the glass where the drink
will be served. For mixed drink, is is served mixed
already.
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6.  Cruise and Passenger Ship Beverage Service
Serving passengers in a cruise and passenger
ship. Particularly in a cruise types of bars that can
be found are also similar to that of a hotel
operations since it is either a floating hotel, resort
or theme park.
 Rail Beverage Service
bars in commercial passenger rails serving
drinks to the passengers.
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7.  Coffee Shops/Coffee Houses/Café
A place specializing on coffee and serves as a
meeting place particularly for transacting business.
 Beer Garden
is an open open-air public area where alcohol
is legally served. In Germany, Beer garden is
common place particularly during the famous
October Fest.
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8. 1. Disco bars are where dancing is a form of
entertainment and the guest could have both
food and drinks and dance.
2. Night clubs are drinking, dancing and
entertainment venue which do its primary
business after dark.
1. A night club can be distinguished from other forms of
such as bars, pubs or tavern, by the inclusion of a
dance floor and a DJ booth, where the DJ plays
recorded dance and pop music.
2. Some night clubs have other form of entertainment
such as comedians, “go-go” dancers, a floor show or
strippers.
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9. 3. Internet café or cybercafé is a place where one
can use a computer with internet access for a
fee, usually per hour or minute charge;
sometimes one can have unmetered access with
a pass for a day or month. It may or may not
serve as a regular café as well, with food and
drinks being served.
4. Videoke bars. A very popular for of bar and
entertainment where guests are the ones singing
or performing.
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10. 5. Sports bars/pool bars. Pool or other sports and
watching sports event are the main
entertainment offered in this type of bar.
6. Comedy bars. A type of entertainment bar
where stand-up comedians performs to
entertain the guests while having their drinks
and food.
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11. 7. KTV bars are the modern concept of night
clubs. Entertainment is in the form of videoke
and live performancesof strip teasers or gogo
dancers. Individual entertainers are known as
Guest Relation Officers or commonly known as
GRO’s are available upon the guests’ request.
This GRO’s are housed in a room with one way
glass window and they are numbered for easy
selection of the guests. They can be tabled in
the common guest area or in a VIP room alone
with the guest with videoke as the main
entertainment.
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12. 8. Gay bars. This is opposite of KTV bars but this
time, patrons are gays and older women or
widower looking for a different kind of
entertainment similar to KTV bars.
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13. 1. Bar and Restaurant. This type of bar, food and
drinks can be served at the same time or the
guest can have a drink before dining or dine first
before drinking.
2. Tea Houses/Rooms is a small room or restaurant
where beverages and light meals are served,
often catering chiefly to women and having a
sedate or subdued atmosphere. It also serves as
a place for business transactions.
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14. 3. Taverns is a place of business where people
gather to drink alcoholic beverages and more
likely, food is also served. Today, is is an outdoor
type with shed or tents covering the entire
place.
4. Public Houses/Pubs are a drinking
establishments which serve alcoholic drinks
especially beer that can be consumed on the
premises, usually with a set up like home.
Beers served in a pub may be cask ales or keg
beers.
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15. Traditionally, the windows of town pubs are
smoked or frosted glass so that the clientele are
obscured from the streets to have some privacy.
The owner, tenant or manager of a public
house is known as publican or landlord.
Each pub generally has a crowd of regulars,
people who drink there regularly.
The pub that people visit most often is called
their local.
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16. 5. Brew Pubs/Micro Breweries are pubs or
restaurants that brew beer on their premises.
6. Service Bars. These are bars in restaurants only
used to prepare drinks of the dining guests.
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17. 1. Lobby bar. The bar located at the lobby area of
the hotel, it is usually used by the guest as a
venue for business meetings or transactions
during night time.in some hotels, it is also
considered as the main bar.
2. Coffee Shop. Mostly located in the lobby or near
the lobby area where both food and drinks can
be served to the guest, particularly coffee. It is
usually used by the guests as place for business
meetings or transactions.
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18. 3. Cocktail lounge/piano bar. This is where live or
piano music is performed. Guest stay here to
relax or to unwind.
4. Restaurant bar/service bar. The bar is used to
prepare drinks of the dining guest.
5. Disco bar/night club. Where dancing is the form
of entertainment. Or the guest could have both
food and drinks and dance
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19. 6. Videoke bar. A very popular form of bar and
entertainment where the guests are the ones
performing.
7. Poolside/pool bar. Bar located at the poolside.
Guests take a drink after or during swimming to
ease the thirst also, to provide some warmth
during colder season.
8. Pool/sports bar. Pool or other sports and
watching sports events is the main
entertainment offer in this type of bar in a
hotel.
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20. 9. Banquet bar. A bar being set up during functions
or events in the banquet or meeting rooms in
the hotel to provide/serve drinks to the guests
of the event or functions
Banquet bar set-up:
Open bar set up. The guests can order any
drinks available in the bar or the main bar of the
hotel. But usually, the guests will be the one to pay
the bill not the host of the event or function.
Limited bar set up. Only the drinks allowed
by the host will be served to the guests of the
event or function.
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21. 10. Mini-bar. A bar in a guest room for guests’
convenience. Alcoholic drinks in mini-bar are
usually in a miniature size bottle to ensure
proper inventory of the drinks after the guest
have checked out. Usually it is a mini-
refrigerator where beverages both alcoholic and
non-alcoholic are stored.
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