OUR SERVICES IN MORE DETAIL

Helping you create world-class experiences — and control the business behind it

From shaping the overarching concept, guest experience model, and operational strategy to executing every detail—through bar design, team education, cocktail creation, menu development, and the selection of product, equipment, and glassware. Choose the full suite or only the elements that serve your goals.

Miguel Flecha, principal CORE Bar Consulting

1. Bar Conceptualization

Theme, style, vibe, story.

We collaborate with you to develop distinctive themes, styles, and narratives, creating unique bar experiences that resonate with your clientele and enhance your venue's atmosphere.

2. Menu Creation

Cocktail recipes, balanced menus, smart backbar lineup.

We design cocktail menus that showcase a balanced range of offerings, from crafting individual drink recipes to selecting beer and liquor lineups that align with your venue's concept. Our selections demonstrate your commitment to quality and authenticity, support the narrative of your program, and optimize profitability. Our master bar book includes classic cocktails off-menu, ensuring team alignment and consistency.

3. Bar Design

Blueprint design for flow, ergonomics, and efficiency.

If the bar is central to your business, it shouldn't be an afterthought in design. We either collaborate with your kitchen designers or bring in our partnered kitchen design studios to ensure your bar design is integrated from the blueprint stage with professional operational insights. This collaboration guarantees a bar that is both aesthetically pleasing and functionally superior. In essence, we provide collaborative design paired with operational expertise.

4. Taskforce

Setup, train, launch, get it open.

Our TASKFORCE service provides hands-on support for the critical opening phase of new venues. We manage everything from unpacking and equipment setup to organizing both FOH and BOH operations. We ensure all systems, including refrigeration, are operational and stock the bar. Whether the bar program is ours or not, we train your bar team to guarantee a smooth launch and efficient operations from day one.

Miguel Flecha, principal CORE Bar Consulting
Miguel Flecha, principal CORE Bar Consulting

5. Menu Audit & Enhancement

Review, refine, optimize.

We review and refine your drink menu to ensure it meets high standards of range, balance, and appeal. By optimizing structure, pricing, and descriptions, we align your offerings with your clientele and venue standards—enhancing perception and performance.
Our audit covers underperforming items, cost-efficiency, and opportunities for innovation, along with preparation and presentation standards to ensure consistency.
We can work with your current layout or bring in our partnered graphic design studios for a full redesign.

6. Brand Advocacy & Experiential Education

Advocacy, education, engagement, awareness.

We elevate your brand’s presence through strategic advocacy programs and engaging educational initiatives aimed at bartenders and key decision-makers. Our approach enhances and solidifies your brand reputation by fostering deep connections with industry influencers, thereby boosting awareness and engagement across the sector.

7. Bar Education

From basic execution to advanced product knowledge and service techniques. Drawing from years of experience in structuring successful bar programs.

Educating bar teams on everything from the basics of execution of the bar program, to in-depth product knowledge and techniques, as well as service steps.

  • Train management staff in what to look for when building out an initial team and ensuring continued success avoiding pitfalls that we’ve seen many a time.
  • Mise-en-place planning.
  • BOH prep-planning including team structure to achieve the level of efficiency required to ensure every day is excellent. How to prep based on the menu, for a well-oiled machine that is prepping everything so that the bar team can run smoothly and avoid hectic service scenarios that lead to poor experiences.
  • Training on deep knowledge of each product utilized in the bar program.
  • Interacting with the FOH service team to make optimal use of the full team, achieving precision and stylistic quality, along with customer engagement.
  • How to bartend at the highest level, from the basic tactical operations of the day-to-day that ensure efficiency and cleanliness, and mastery of technical aspects for advanced culinary techniques.
  • COCKTAIL  R&D TRAINING
    “Give a man a fish, and you’ll  feed him for a day; teach him to fish, and you’ll feed him for a lifetime." This special modality empowers your bar staff with the skills to conduct their own R&D, fostering creativity and enabling them to craft their own signature drinks. This autonomy encourages continuous innovation and sustained excellence independently.
Miguel Flecha, principal CORE Bar Consulting
Miguel Flecha, principal CORE Bar Consulting