Fallow CollectiveBar CrewEvent Bartender
Trade shows, brand launches, and industry activations. Join the Tended Bar Crew, our nationwide bartender roster.
About Tended
Tended is Fallow Collective's bartending and brand-cocktail venture. The beverage alcohol brands we work with rely on Tended's trained bartenders to bring their products to life at trade shows, brand activations, and industry events. Tended works brand events only (no private events or weddings).
About the role
We're building the Tended Bar Crew, our national roster of bartenders, market by market. This is ongoing, gig-style work: once you're onboarded, you join the Bar Crew in your market and get called on for shifts as they come up, including trade shows, brand launches, industry conferences, and activations. You sign up for the jobs that fit your availability.
What you'll do
- Build and serve brand-specified cocktails and pours at trade shows, activations, and industry events
- Represent client brands with polish, product knowledge, and hospitality
- Follow brand recipes and programming and Tended's service standards
- Set up, stock, and break down bar stations
- Check ID and follow all state and local alcohol service regulations
- Bring Fallow Collective's values to every shift: Hospitality First, Say What's True, Lead with Empathy, Stay Curious, Rooted Together
Who you are
- Experienced bartender with strong classic and modern cocktail knowledge
- 21 or older, and holds (or can obtain) any bartending or alcohol service license your state requires
- Comfortable with brand and trade event work rather than a tipped bar shift; this is flat-rate, non-tipped pay
- Polished and professional, comfortable representing a brand in front of trade buyers, media, and consumers
- Flexible schedule; able to travel locally to event venues
- Prior brand ambassador or promotional experience is a plus, not required
Pay and classification
Pay range: $35.00 to $40.25 per hour, flat rate and non-tipped, depending on market (Ohio Tier 1 base $35.00 per hour, tiered up to $40.25 per hour at Tier 4)
Classification: 1099 independent contractor (not a W-2 employee)
Schedule: No fixed hours. Roster-style; sign up for available shifts.
Certifications and onboarding
- Responsible alcohol service certification (such as ServSafe Alcohol or your state's equivalent) required before your first shift
- Proof of insurance (certificate of insurance naming Fallow Collective as additional insured) required before working
- Completed contractor paperwork: W-9, contractor agreement, standards acknowledgment, certifications, and availability profile
- Complete the Fallow Certification program on Brand Categories and Brand Partners
About Fallow Collective
Fallow Collective is a hospitality-driven ecosystem building and growing purpose-driven brands across beverage alcohol and hospitality-adjacent CPG. We exist at the intersection of commerce and purpose, where disciplined strategy meets meaningful experience, and where doing right by people and doing well in business are treated as the same goal.
We were built on a belief that emerging brands deserve more than advice. They deserve an ecosystem, one that can take a brand from strategy to shelf, from first account to national scale, and from a good product to an experience people remember. Rather than launch a single company, we built a family of connected ventures, each led by its own operators, that together cover the full arc of how a brand grows in our industry. What one entity sets in motion, another carries forward, so brands gain senior leadership, real execution, and lasting relationships without assembling it all themselves.
A common thread runs through everything we do: bringing hospitality back to retail. Whether we are opening doors at the corporate level, executing in the field, designing an activation, or pouring a thoughtful drink, we lead with hospitality, intention, and genuine care for the people on every side of the transaction. We hold ourselves to thoughtful growth and financial discipline, and we invest in leadership development so the people who build with us grow as much as the brands we serve.
Through the Fallow Foundation, our nonprofit dedicated to food access and education, we extend that same purpose beyond commerce to the communities we are part of.