Set clear authority for running licensed bar shifts, supporting responsible service and reconciling stock and cash across late, busy trading periods.
This contract includes Plan and lead bar shifts, breaks, sections and closing duties. Apply the venue's age-verification, refusal and responsible-service procedures. Monitor stock, wastage, cellar condition, dispense systems and replenishment. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers
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When to use this contract
Deliver lawful and controlled drinks service, produce accurate stock and cash management, and maintain safe, orderly bar operations.
Workplace context: Hotel, restaurant, kitchen, guest-facing or approved hospitality areas.
What makes this role different
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering licensed trading. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering late work and security. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering stock and cash. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering cellar and manual handling. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering food safety.
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Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The manager may refuse service and direct the shift; changes to licensed hours, promotions or premises conditions need authorised approval. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
What to prepare before you issue it
the bar, service areas, trading periods and event work covered
the evening, weekend, late-finish and seasonal rota expectations
the personal-licence or other licensing responsibilities actually assigned
the staffing, refusal, removal, refund and complimentary-drink authority
the till, safe, stock, keys and alarm responsibilities
the cellar, dispense, cleaning and manual-handling duties
the security, incident and premises-licence escalation contacts
Day-to-day operating brief
What Bar Manager work looks like in practice
A bar manager controls licensed service, staffing, stock, tills and responsible customer care across busy and late trading periods. Employment terms should address personal-licence boundaries where relevant, refusals of service, cellar safety, cash control and opening or closing duties.
Responsibilities reflected in the contract
Plan and lead bar shifts, breaks, sections and closing duties.
Apply the venue's age-verification, refusal and responsible-service procedures.
Monitor stock, wastage, cellar condition, dispense systems and replenishment.
Control tills, floats, refunds, keys, safes and end-of-shift reconciliation.
Respond to customer, security, noise and welfare incidents within authority.
Support hygiene, glass, manual-handling and equipment safety standards.
Record licence cover, refusals, incidents, cash differences and management handover.
A realistic working scenario
A guest appears intoxicated and a group challenges the refusal. The manager supports staff, ends service under venue procedure and records the incident for the premises licence holder.
Outputs to agree
lawful and controlled drinks service
accurate stock and cash management
safe, orderly bar operations
Records and evidence
Rota and licence cover.
Stock count and wastage.
Till reconciliation.
Refusal or security incident.
Booking records.
Payment records.
Reporting relationship
Typically reports to General Manager, Hotel Manager, Restaurant Manager or Front Office Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.
Authority and escalation
The manager may refuse service and direct the shift; changes to licensed hours, promotions or premises conditions need authorised approval.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
Supervision
Plan and lead bar shifts, breaks, sections and closing duties.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.
Tools and systems
Booking systems.
Payment systems.
Kitchen or housekeeping equipment where authorised.
Shift handover tools.
Guest communication systems.
Workplace context
Hotel, restaurant, kitchen, guest-facing or approved hospitality areas.
Training and certification
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Contract priorities
licensed trading
late work and security
stock and cash
cellar and manual handling
Information the employer should prepare
the bar, service areas, trading periods and event work covered
the evening, weekend, late-finish and seasonal rota expectations
the personal-licence or other licensing responsibilities actually assigned
the staffing, refusal, removal, refund and complimentary-drink authority
the till, safe, stock, keys and alarm responsibilities
the cellar, dispense, cleaning and manual-handling duties
the security, incident and premises-licence escalation contacts
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Work setting
Hotel, restaurant, kitchen, guest-facing or approved hospitality areas.
Primary duties
Plan and lead bar shifts, breaks, sections and closing duties.
Apply the venue's age-verification, refusal and responsible-service procedures.
Monitor stock, wastage, cellar condition, dispense systems and replenishment.
Control tills, floats, refunds, keys, safes and end-of-shift reconciliation.
Tools and training to confirm
Booking systems.
Payment systems.
Kitchen or housekeeping equipment where authorised.
Shift handover tools.
Governance focus
Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering licensed trading. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering late work and security. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering stock and cash.
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Bar Manager duties
Deliver lawful and controlled drinks service, produce accurate stock and cash management, and maintain safe, orderly bar operations.
Plan and lead bar shifts, breaks, sections and closing duties. Apply the venue's age-verification, refusal and responsible-service procedures. Monitor stock, wastage, cellar condition, dispense systems and replenishment. Control tills, floats, refunds, keys, safes and end-of-shift reconciliation. Respond to customer, security, noise and welfare incidents within authority.
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The manager may refuse service and direct the shift; changes to licensed hours, promotions or premises conditions need authorised approval.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering licensed trading.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering late work and security.
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Yes, with training, management support, a clear incident process and protection when staff apply it properly.
Is a personal licence always required?
Not for every bar-manager post; the employer should define the licensed responsibilities actually assigned.
Can a Bar Manager close service earlier after a serious incident?
The venue should define emergency and delegated closure authority, including how staff, customers, security, senior management and any required records are handled.
Who investigates a till shortage at the end of a bar shift?
The manager should preserve the reconciliation, access and handover evidence and escalate under the cash policy rather than making an informal deduction or accusation.
May the Bar Manager create a drinks promotion during service?
Only within the employer's pricing, licensing and responsible-retailing approvals; promotions should not be improvised in response to excess stock or customer pressure.
How should an alcohol refusal be recorded?
Follow the venue's refusal log with time, reason and relevant circumstances, avoiding unnecessary personal data and involving security or management where risk escalates.
Can cellar-line cleaning form part of the role?
Yes where the employee is trained and the contract identifies chemical, isolation, pressure, manual-handling and record responsibilities for the system used.
What should a late bar close handover include?
Cover customers and staff remaining, incidents, refusals, cash and stock variances, cellar and dispense status, cleaning, keys, alarms, security and unresolved maintenance.