BAR AND BEVERAGE MANAGEMENT QUIZ

• Hammurabi Bartender who watered down beer would be executed
• Roman Pompeii had 118 bars uncovered under Mt. Vesuvius
• Taverns - Alehouses along trade routes which provided a stable for horses, a place to sleep and sometimes a meal
• PUB England was a place where people gathered for fellowship
• Evergreen bush on pole outside


  Means ale was served
• Cabaret


  Theatrical entertainment (eg music, songs, dance, drama)
• Saloon

  Public room where alcohol drinks are sold and drunk (old bar)
• Mermaid Tavern was a tavern proliferated by William Shakespeare & Ben Jonson (Literary Artist) where also Shakespeare wrote the Romeo & Juliet in 1650s in Massachusetts
• Socrates also saw that taverns moistened the soul
• There was a time in the 1650's Massachusetts that the tavern was built first before the church
• 18th Amendment


  Volstead Act
• 21st Amendment


  Repealed the Volstead Act, provides that the government will take over the control of selling, distribution, transportation of alcohol
• Barricade


  A divider; in the wild west, the bar had to erect a barricade to keep clients in check as they could be unruly
• The Volstead Act prohibited the rate, manufacture, transportation, importation of intoxicating liquors in the US
• The Singapore Sling cocktail was invented in the long bar at the Raffles Hotel
• Bar Types


  • Beverage only Bar
  • Bar & Entertainment Combination
  • Food & Beverage Combination
  • Brew Pub
• Beverage only Bar


  The simplest kind of beverage enterprise; it serves beverages alone with no foodservice except snacks
• Bar & Entertainment Combination

  Bars offering entertainment range from the neighbourhood bar with pool, pinball, dart boards, or giant televisions to nightclubs with big name entertainers, to comedy clubs with live entertainment
• Cover Charge/Admission Fee


  A fee per person paid at the door
• Food & Beverage Combination

  The most common form of beverage operation is the that is linked with some kind of foodservice
• Wine Flights


  Inexpensive one ounce (1oz) taster
• Brew Pub


  A variation of wine bar where beer is brewed and served on the premises
• Black Horse, White Swan, Red Lion are the Logos of PUBS back then
• Blood Alcohol concentration


  The means of measuring the intoxication percentage of alcohol in the bloodstream
• Breathalyzer


  A tool used in measuring the level of alcohol in the body
• Intoxication


  The state of being drunk due to alcohol consumption
• Metabolism


  The process of assimilating and eliminating alcohol in the body
• Physiology


  The science of dealing with the normal function of living things or their organs
• Pathway of Alcohol


  1. Mouth & trophagus: Alcohol is diluted by saliva before being swallowed, some is immediately absorbed

  2. Stomach: More alcohol is absorbed here, irritating the lining of the stomach and increasing the acidity

  3. Small Intestine: Any remaining alcohol is absorbed here and is the site of most alcohol absorption

  4. Bloodstream: Alcohol quickly diffuses through the body, affecting almost all cells

  5. Brain: These cells are more susceptible because they are usually protected from toxins by the blood-brain barrier

  6. Liver: Blood alcohol is metabolized in two stages and then respired into CO2, H2O, Fatty acids

  7. Excretion via urine, the lungs, and sweat
• Alcohol Processing


  1. Alcohol is processed by the liver as it arrives from the blood stream

  2. The liver produces enzymes called Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (ALDH)

  3. Alcohol Metabolism via ADH produces a secondary product, Acetaldehyde, which is more toxic than alcohol

  4. Acetaldehyde is then converted into Acetate by ALDH

  5. Acetate is digested into fatty acids, CO2, and water

  6. Fatty Acids create 7 calories per gram of alcohol when digested
• Beer Gut


  Has some truth to it
• Effects of Alcohol


  • Impaired Judgement: Alcohol depresses the central nervous system, preventing neurological processes from occurring at the normal rate, affecting the frontal lobe where rational decision making and judgement occurs
  • Amnesia: The process of creating and storing memory is impaired, leading to short-term amnesia
  • Anxiety: The emotional regulatory function of the amygdala is impaired, leading to over or under expression of primal human emotions
• Amygdala


  Part of the brain that regulates human emotion, responsible for creating emotion appropriate for a circumstance
• Hippocampus


  Associated primarily with memory
• Bar Parts

  ● Back Bar

  ● Under Bar

  ● Glass Rail

  ● Speed Rail

  ● Mirror

  ● Front Bar

  ● Arm Rest

  ● Bar Die

  ● Foot Rest
• Breaking the seal


  Water loss
• Combination of excess water loss, reduced water absorption, and miscalculating bladder


  Creates the need to urinate more frequently with greater consumption
• Reality: You've "broken the seal" as soon as you have your first urination
• Alcohol affects urination in 3 major ways

  1. Alcohol is a diuretic, causing cells to shed water

  2. Alcohol interferes with water reabsorption in the kidneys, causing excess water to be moved to the bladder

  3. Alcohol causes stretch receptors to "miscalculate" the amount of urine in the bladder, making it feel fuller than it is
• Thinned blood


  Alcohol is a blood thinner, thinner blood is easier to pump