823 Advizers

Dave

Owner/CEO

Bar & Restaurant Patrol

Chico State University
NA

Dave Allred has over 35 years of bar and restaurant industry experience. He has worked as a server, bartender, bar manager and GM, and then in 2012 started his own bar inventory auditing company called Bar Patrol in which he took inventory audits for bars to save them money.
Food, Beverages & Alcohol
Entrepreneurship and Business Owner
English, Writing & Education
Took Out Loans
Worked 20+ Hours in School
Student Athlete

Q1Career path

Career Pivoting

Entrepreneurship

Overcoming Challenges

5:02

"I had to walk into bars and sell my services and I hate selling, but I made myself do it."

Q2Main responsibilities

Online Business

Entrepreneurship

Marketing

1:23

"I don't like managing a large team of people."

Q3Day in the life

Entrepreneurship

Recurring Revenue

Executive/Leadership

1:20

"My day in the life now that I've gotten to where I am really varies because I have the freedom to kind of do whatever I want."

Q4Most important skills - role

Entrepreneurship

Technology

Online Business

1:22

"If you just study each one, one at a time, it builds that foundation."

Q5Favorite parts - role

Small Business Ownership

Overcoming Challenges

Entrepreneurship

1:22

"I just like the freedom to be able to say yes to anything anytime I want."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Marketing

Entrepreneurship

Small Business Management

1:29

"I have kind of what's called shiny object syndrome, where I see something, I'm like, oh, I could do that. But I've learned to stay in my lane."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Customer Service

Entrepreneurship

Business Ownership

1:25

"the more you help other people get what they want, you're gonna get what you want. It's just the law of business. It's the law of the universe."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Risk-taking

Entrepreneurship

Visionary thinking

1:05

"They're visionaries and they think differently than the 95% out there who just wanna show up to a job and get their paycheck."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Perseverance

Long-Term Vision

Entrepreneurship

2:22

"the perseverance it's gonna take to get where you want to go"

Q10Entry-level positions

Career Exploration

Internships

Entrepreneurship

2:07

"I would recommend interning for someone or working for someone for free just to learn what you wanna do."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Achieving Goals

Career Development

Overcoming Challenges

2:51

"do not settle for something. Even if you have to go get another job to make ends meet and to make income. 'cause we need income."

Q12College ideas for success

Career Exploration

Overcoming Challenges

Achieving Goals

0:50

"I think it's important that you find something that you really love and try to find that field to go into."

Q13How identity impacted career

Discipline

Teamwork

Leadership

2:04

"And just being a locker room, that camaraderie and being together was more than anything and that's what we missed the most of it."