Hospitality training · iOS + Android
From first pour to last call.
Shift Ready is the mobile trainer, from Momster Mixologist — taking hospitality workers from their first cocktail shaker to running a real Friday shift. Gamified levels, an AI bartender coach, and a Virtual Shift simulator that puts timed orders on your bar.
- Built for
- Bartenders → servers → baristas → event crews
- Pricing
- A fraction of the $50/mo apps
- Practice
- Real-pressure simulator, not flashcards
The problem
Flashcards don't make a bartender.
The training apps hospitality workers actually use are mostly $50/month flashcard decks. They teach you what a jigger is. They do not teach you how to keep four tables happy while two shots, three drafts, and a Negroni all land at once.
Shift Ready, from Momster Mixologist, replaces the flashcards with the actual job — pour technique measured against a real standard, recipe walkthroughs that quiz you on what you'd actually do, and timed shifts in a simulator built around the order pace of a real bar.
Glassware, jigger work, sanitation, pour count.
Start Level 1 →
12 classic recipes to spec, on a real pace timer.
Up-selling, pacing, handling rushes, dirty glasses.
Curriculum · 7 levels
Earn a shift, one round at a time.
Every level unlocks the next. Pour count is measured; pace is clocked. Skip a recipe and the simulator won't let you forget it.
- Level 01The Setup12 lessons
Glassware, jigger work, sanitation, ice handling. Pour count measured against the spec — 1.5 oz, every round.
- Level 02First Builds12 recipes
Gin & tonic, old fashioned, mule, daiquiri — twelve classics you need to pour blindfolded before week two.
- Level 03The FloorService sim
Reading a ticket, sequencing four tables, handling lost orders and a slammed weekend. This is the unlock.
Unlocks Virtual Shift simulator →
- Level 04Up-selling Sans SleazeRoleplay
Pacing, second pours, dessert nudges. The real margin — taught by people who worked service.
- Level 05Spec MenusCustom
Reading and memorising a real venue menu. Your venue uploads yours; you study it on the line.
- Level 06PressureLive sim
A Friday night, 24 covers, two bartenders. The full Virtual Shift run, timed, scored, replayed.
Virtual Shift
The bar, before the bar.
After Level 3 you unlock the simulator. It drops you onto a counter with a real order queue and four tables of patrons getting hungrier by the second. You prioritise, you time, you serve. Get bumped and you feel it — try again until the service window closes clean.
- Dive bar
A two-deep Friday, slow builds, low margin for error.
- Bistro
Wine, classic cocktails, dietary specs on every ticket.
- High-volume event
Three bartenders, one queue, a line at the door.
- T42x Old Fashioned · 1x IPA draftService window42s
- T7Margarita (salt) · Margarita (salt)Service window58s
- T2NegroniService window22s
- T11Espresso Martini · Aperol Spritzrunning outService window05s
AI bartender coach
Rehearse the conversation, not the flashcards.
The coach runs mock customers, walks every recipe out loud, and holds an interview rehearsal you can run the night before a real trial shift. It listens to how you pace, where you hesitate, and what you under-spec — the same things your head bartender will notice at the end of week two.
For venues
Onboard a new bartender in days, not weeks.
Upload your actual menu. Employees get custom training on your builds, your specs, your service window. Managers see exactly who is struggling with what — and where each trainee stands before their first real shift.
Your spec — your drinks, your builds, your pour counts. Trainees get training on the menu they’ll actually work.
See exactly who is struggling with which recipe, which service pattern, which spec. No more guessing on the floor.
A new bartender can train in Shift Ready for the week before their first shift — and your head bartender doesn’t need to hold their hand.
Less than the $50/mo flashcard apps. More useful. We’ll quote honestly.
Pricing
A worker can actually afford it.
Most "training platforms" in this category are $50 a month and built for managers, not the bartender on day three of the new job. Shift Ready, from Momster Mixologist, is the opposite — priced for the worker, with a venue plan for managers that wants the analytics.
- Full 7-level curriculum
- Unlimited Virtual Shift runs
- AI coach — recipes, customers, interviews
- No subscription gate on basics
- Upload your own menu → trainees learn your builds
- Manager dashboard: who is struggling with what
- Onboarding checklists for each role
- Hands-on onboarding from the Momster Mixologist team
Roadmap
Bartenders first. The whole floor next.
Shift Ready, from Momster Mixologist, starts as bartender training because that's the hardest shift to fake. Then the same playbooks ship to servers, baristas, hosts, hotel staff, and event crews — every role in a venue that hires constantly and onboards fast.
- Step 01Bartenders
In build — training app, simulator, coach.
In build - Step 02Servers
Sequence, allergens, pace. Same simulator engine.
- Step 03Baristas
Dial-in, milk work, queue management.
- Step 04Hosts & floor
Covers, waitlist, special-occasion handling.
- Step 05Hotel & event
Banquets, conventions, multi-station teams.
Ready when you are
Your first shift is closer than it looks.
Drop us a line and we'll send early access the day we open your slot. No newsletter, no drip campaign — just a bartender or two on the other side of the inbox.
Reach us
shift-ready@polsia.appShift Ready · a job-skills platform for an industry that hires constantly and onboards fast.