What are the benefits of employing flair bartenders?

Do flair bartenders really add value to your bar? What are the benefits of employing flair bartenders? If any? We discuss some of these points and more in this week’s blog…

If you are a bar owner or manager, WFA Gradings provides a standardised, professional system for training your bartenders if the art of flair. But why would you want to use WFA Gradings in your bar?

What can having flair bartenders really add?

A competitive edge

Having fully trained flair bartenders gives your bar a competitive edge over other bars that don’t. If a bartender can flair it says a lot about them, it shows that they are not only talented but also very into what they do. When it is clear that someone loves their job, it draws people in like a moth to the flame. This is particularly true with bartending. You want the bartender who looks like they know what they are doing and is enjoying it. Nothing behind the bar is more visually appealing than flair bartending.

what are the benefits of employing flair bartenders?


Guests like to be entertained and flair bartending is entertaining. If you are entertaining your guests, rather than just serving them drinks, then you are more likely to be forming positive memories. These memories act as a great hook to keep people coming back to your bar time and time again as they look to repeat that great experience. Also, due to the visual nature of flair bartending, language barriers or a noisy, busy atmosphere aren’t a problem. Therefore, flair bartending can provide an extra element of entertainment in almost any bar, anywhere in the world.

what are the benefits of employing flair bartenders?

Free marketing

The entertaining and impressive nature of flair bartending can often wow guests into capturing videos or telling others about their experience. In short, for your bar, this means increased word-of-mouth marketing and a greater presence on social media as people share the videos of your flair bartenders in action.


Like any skill, learning to flair is rewarding. By offering a training course like WFA Gradings to your staff you are not only investing in your bar but also your staff. As more bars start to utilise and recognise WFA Gradings, having any WFA Grade on your CV will be a great advantage.

Some of your staff may recognise this investment and reward you with loyalty, which in turn is useful in bringing down staff turnover. When you start to conquer the basics of flair bartending, it can quite easily leave you wanting more. As a result, your staff may start to pursue it outside of working hours too, taking part in competitions or collaborating with other flair bartenders to learn new skills and tricks.