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Diageo, parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc and the world’s leading premium drinks business, has kicked off its 2015 Master Bar Academy (MBA) programme in Nigeria.
Through this, Diageo aims to help Nigerian bartenders learn world class techniques they need to build successful careers. The programme also highlights viable career prospects bartending offers Nigerian youths who wish to pursue a career in the field. The Master Bar Programme is the brainchild of Mark Barrett, Spirits Capability Manager for Diageo Africa, who created the academy after visiting bars and clubs in Africa and constantly getting the incorrect serve or bad service.
Since its inception, this Academy has helped to train more than 26,000 bartenders across 14 African countries. As part of the programme, each bartender is enrolled in a three month course consisting of three modules covering core bartending themes like: customer service, the art of bartending, tools of the trade, bartender secrets, drink categories, spirit production, brand knowledge, perfect serves, counterfeit spotting, up selling and responsible serving.
The 2015 MBA programme was launched with an advanced one day master class programme (MBA 303) organized for beneficiaries of previously organized basic and intermediate programmes. At the end of the advanced programme, five highly skilled bartenders were selected to compete in a live finale which tested the cocktail skills of the contestants. At the end of the closely contested finale, Michael Toriola emerged overall winner of the competition winning $1,000, an iPad loaded with cocktail apps, as well as MBA cocktail set.
Culled from City Voice
