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Hey there fellas. Got to work today and the bar was a mess and barely stocked. Now, one or the other is fine, but both at the same time? gently caress you yesterdays closer (which is pretty much verbatim my text to him.) Managed to get fully seated in the span of 3 minutes and 2 minutes later slice my finger open when opening a Grey Goose bottle on the foil (wtf?) Rough start but after about 2 hours I was actually caught up. well: svedka CC Claymore (lol) Gordons E&J Jack Beam Capn Bacardi Jaurez KoC: fancy pants restaurant / hipster bar Hey MisterOblivious where in MN are you? Hey nrr! Hi. I miss you, sexy. Does the 195 have a new home somewhere? I'd ask this via pms but I ain't got em cuz I. can't. stop. getting. banned. e: also the repeated "cant taste the likka" comments seem to be pretty goony and thinly veiled racism at best y'all. King Of Coons fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Oct 18, 2012 |
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The comments aren't racism and that you think they might be just means you're lucky enough to not have that crowd in your area. Edit: Minnesota? Hipster bar? Yeah, you have no idea how deep the lovely crowd rabbit hole goes.
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Oct 18, 2012 14:42
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How does someone leave it both a mess AND unstocked, is there no manager to spot check that poo poo?
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Oct 18, 2012 16:17
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Yes a manager should be checking on that poo poo the next day but they don't. Look, I get it if you had a dangerous night and safety meetings were far too frequent, but if you're not going to come in the next day and fix your poo poo a text warning me I might want to come in early would be appreciated. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not saying my rabbit hole is deep as hell but I get glimpses down there. I get my fair share of "this drink is weak" at the bar but at the restaurant it's only happened once. That was from a bunch of college kids that were clearly used to going to bars where the cocktails are poo poo liquor and heavy handed. Now when I say it was clear it was because they frequent gay bars. Which seems like an insignificant detail to me. If I was to paraphrase them with lisps and poo poo that would seem pretty homophobic to me. But I'm not here to start a poo poo storm or whatever about privilege. Most of my gripes are wine related. Oh Georg Riedel came to your country club for some event and taught you about how glasses make a difference? You'd like one of his glasses for the house red? Sure thing buddy bourdeaux or burgundy? You're bouvet is flat? OK, how's this? Much better? Same bottle.
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Oct 18, 2012 17:28
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Found out today that I'll be working both Saturday and Sunday evening on the pre-halloween weekend at my new gig. Pretty sure I'm going to be going as this: 
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Oct 18, 2012 17:51
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Our theme for the party is "Playboy Mansion 1967 Zombie" and I may have to get that shift covered out of self-respect.
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Oct 18, 2012 18:56
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King Of Coons posted:Now when I say it was clear it was because they frequent gay bars. Which seems like an insignificant detail to me. If I was to paraphrase them with lisps and poo poo that would seem pretty homophobic to me. But I'm not here to start a poo poo storm or whatever about privilege. In my experience the two gay bars in Minneapolis I've been too (Saloon and the 90s) pour some strong poo poo.
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Oct 18, 2012 19:52
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It's pretty much industry standard for every GLBT bar in the city save Jetset.
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Oct 18, 2012 21:21
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Coohoolin posted:I'm so happy I don't work in a "posh" bar anymore- having to apologize to dickheads over bullshit complaints was incredibly depressing. I know work in a working class pub in the Ned (Scottish version of a chav) area of Aberdeen, my regulars are insane or ex bikers and football casuals (better than any fascist bouncers), my boss is a 50 something foul mouthed "Torry quine" who's been chucked out of other pubs on the street and anything like what I've just read on this last page would be promptly met with a curt "dinnae be a fucken' oval office" or "git tae gently caress!". I derive personal pleasure from telling the dolled up anglophiles ("omg did you see TOWIE this week?") that "we don't do cocktails. You can have an irn bru WKD if you don't fancy beer." I've been a lot on shore in Aberdeen. Where do you work? There's a lot of classy joints in Aberdeen, such as the Crown & Anchor, The Neptune and Fitties.
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Oct 18, 2012 22:23
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gently caress me sideways I just got home. The Giants and Niners were playing and we had a full house until that twelve year old pitcher SF has poo poo the bed. I also had a Hen Party and a group of soldiers home on leave celebrating a birthday party who found each other and couldn't get enough Jacob's Ladders. Then around ten I get a dozen employees in who had tailgated the football game and came back to the bar to drink hard and gamble their paychecks away in liar's dice. I even figured out how to break the little pissant waitress that's been giving me trouble. I stopped pulling her loving tickets. I just let em sit on the printer until another waitress rang in an order behind her and even then I made her orders last. She was all peaches and cream to me after that and I could tell by her tip report that she made poo poo tonight compared to the other waitresses. Don't gently caress with the bartender toots, I've been doing this longer than you've been tying your own shoes. Ended up walking with $250 on a week night. Why'd I ever stop doing this?
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Oct 19, 2012 13:04
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Welcome home, bud.
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Oct 19, 2012 21:08
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James Woods posted:Why'd I ever stop doing this? Because you value your sanity/liver/rosy outlook on life? (pick one)
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Oct 20, 2012 01:24
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Had my first drink thrown at me by a patron last night.  ((She was a former server who got fired over a year ago because she was an insufferable, insane piece of work and she specifically came in to my bar to do that because she's moving away on Sunday.))
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Oct 20, 2012 23:44
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That's probably the only time I've ever been completely thrown off my game on the job. Had a beer thrown in my face one night by some little poo poo that said I'd insulted his girlfriend (as it turns out I'd kicked her out for not having ID). I honestly didn't know how to react to it when it happened. I just kind of stood there, bar busy as hell, blinking beer out of my eyes. That kind of thing really sucks man, hope you handled it (and her) alright.
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Oct 21, 2012 00:19
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I had a fat girl who kept eating out of the fruit tray (like a literal trough) throw the fruit tray at my coworker one time because she told the fat girl to stop eating out of the fruit tray. She was packing away olives and cherries without prejudice or shame, both hands working away at once.
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Oct 21, 2012 00:51
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Friday night we had a mid-thirties couple enjoying a not-so-sly hand job on a really visible couch (as in, straight in front of the bar and facing the whole room). This is in a semi-fancy cocktail bar, so it was suitably confusing, disturbing and hilarious.
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Oct 21, 2012 10:30
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You guys who get drinks thrown at you know that you have a gun on hand that sprays endless streams of liquid at high pressure with a simple finger jammed down the nozzle, right? Man I miss working in a club 
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Oct 21, 2012 11:19
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afen posted:I've been a lot on shore in Aberdeen. Where do you work? There's a lot of classy joints in Aberdeen, such as the Crown & Anchor, The Neptune and Fitties. A lovely slice of weirdness on Holburn street called the Malt Mill. Guess how many malts we have.
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Oct 21, 2012 21:10
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Perdido posted:Had my first drink thrown at me by a patron last night. Happened to me when we (me and my glaswegian then-manager) finally told a bunch of probably coked up girls they were too drunk to get served. Cue hysteria: coked girl 1: "wha the gently caress dae ye think ye ar, fucken weegie bam! get tae gently caress!" coked girl 2: "calm doon, we're gaan awa onyways" coked girl 1: "I just da like being judged like, ken!" At this point I can't help myself and smother a giggle which ends up being a snort, which sets girl 1 off again. "fit the gently caress are you laughing at!" and tosses her wine across the bar. Sloppily enough, however, that we stayed mostly dry and the glass smashed on the floor of the bar. I laughed them out of the pub.
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Oct 21, 2012 21:22
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nrr posted:You guys who get drinks thrown at you know that you have a gun on hand that sprays endless streams of liquid at high pressure with a simple finger jammed down the nozzle, right? My bar station is an L-shaped bar and I didn't see her (had my back turned) when it happened. I basically laughed my rear end off when I realized who it was and told confused patrons that she was an ex-girlfriend who's mad that I broke up with her because she's crazy. Oddly, no one challenged my claims of her being crazy.
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Oct 22, 2012 00:03
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If all she did was throw a drink on you she's not that crazy, you got off lucky. REAL crazy women are loving scary.
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Oct 22, 2012 02:06
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Coohoolin posted:Happened to me when we (me and my glaswegian then-manager) finally told a bunch of probably coked up girls they were too drunk to get served. Cue hysteria: Why do I find that accent on a woman oddly hot?
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Oct 22, 2012 02:47
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leica posted:If all she did was throw a drink on you she's not that crazy, you got off lucky. Holding a grudge for an argument that happened over a year ago isn't crazy to you?
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Oct 22, 2012 03:54
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navyjack posted:Why do I find that accent on a woman oddly hot? Because you've only ever heard it on TV?
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Oct 22, 2012 04:49
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Perdido posted:Holding a grudge for an argument that happened over a year ago isn't crazy to you? In the grand scheme of things, that's seriously like baby's first crazyperson
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Oct 22, 2012 07:52
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If you've worked in the service industry more than a year and still have an accent fetish, you are a total glutton for punishment.
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Oct 22, 2012 09:38
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Tom Rakewell posted:If you've worked in the service industry more than a year and still have an accent fetish, you are a total glutton for punishment. At this point it's not even an accent anymore, but a full blown dialect (doric).
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Oct 22, 2012 14:07
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Tom Rakewell posted:If you've worked in the service industry more than a year and still have an accent fetish, you are a total glutton for punishment. I still have dreams about customers with hot accents so thick I can understand their orders, but nothing else they say. Those are pleasant dreams.
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Oct 22, 2012 14:59
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Perdido posted:Holding a grudge for an argument that happened over a year ago isn't crazy to you? No, breaking a window with her bare hands, bleeding profusely trying to get to you in a locked apartment is though. I would have taken a drink to the face all day long over that.
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Oct 23, 2012 07:37
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leica posted:No, breaking a window with her bare hands, bleeding profusely trying to get to you in a locked apartment is though. Or in the same vein, coming in after being 86'd a month prior, sitting down, pale as hell on a really slow Sunday night, staring blankly straight ahead, meekly placing a purse on the bar, and upon being asked "Are you all right?" giving the reply with the weakest voice I have ever heard from a grown woman, "I don't know. I just took 8 Xanax and a few drinks." .... Don't just throw the drink, throw the whole goddamn glass at me, if it means I'll never have to deal with attempted/toying with suicide sitting at my bar.
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Oct 23, 2012 19:54
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leica posted:No, breaking a window with her bare hands, bleeding profusely trying to get to you in a locked apartment is though.  Point taken.
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Oct 23, 2012 20:54
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So a discussion came up in a (local) forum I'm a member of, about drink prices. So I thought I'd ask the experts, what's a standard price for something like a rail cocktail in your bar? Or a beer (although no idea what kind of beer). For reference, $5-$6 for a "beer" is described as expensive, which all seems fine to me.
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Oct 24, 2012 03:15
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Manhattan: "Beer" is 7 or 8. Draft beers 8-10. Wine 12. Cocktail 12. This is at a normal kind of bar outside of drink specials and things like that. If you search you can find "shot of rail tequila and can of beer" things for six bucks. I usually go to nicer places to drink fru fru cocktails when I go out now and I pretty much expect each drink I order to be 13 or so dollars. raton fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Oct 24, 2012 |
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Oct 24, 2012 03:19
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FISHMANPET posted:So a discussion came up in a (local) forum I'm a member of, about drink prices. So I thought I'd ask the experts, what's a standard price for something like a rail cocktail in your bar? Or a beer (although no idea what kind of beer). For reference, $5-$6 for a "beer" is described as expensive, which all seems fine to me. Midwest college bar: $2.75 for rail, $2.25 for a Bud Light pint, between $3-4 for better beers. Cigar bar nearby that I hang out at, beers are between $5-7 and I think their rail is $4.
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Oct 24, 2012 03:34
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My new gig: Rail is 5 bucks (special cocktails are 4 bucks), tap beer is 5.50, cheap cans are 3.50, other bottles and cans run from 4 to 6 bucks. Wine varies from 6 to 9 bucks a glass. My favorite bar in Vancouver is entirely beer centric and varies from 6-9 bucks a pint - but we're talking 40 dynamic taps of beer you will never see in 95% of bars anywhere else.
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Oct 24, 2012 05:22
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Any Sydney bartenders in the thread? Specifically working at cocktail bars? I'm trying to see how viable my idea is going from a nice cocktail place up on the central coast to a hotel or similar cocktail bar in Sydney next year, as it would really help to have my work and Uni in one spot, even if I live 90 mins train ride away.
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Oct 24, 2012 05:37
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Hangout bar: $4 Wells & Domestics $4.50 Imports/Micros $5 Guinness/Bass/Cider $5.50 Calls $7 Premiums Most shots are $4-$7 with most being 5 or 5.50
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Oct 24, 2012 06:25
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Between $5.50 and $9 for a pint or snifter of crafty and/or Belgian strong/tripels/specials. Standard domestic bottles at $4, up from that at $5. Well/rail is $5. Call is $6/7 depending, and top is $8. Fancy cocktail place nearby is 10-12, local beer specialty joint is between $6 and $10, and punk "dive" is $1 cans on Monday. Downtown is a whole 'nother can of worms that I have honestly never ventured into. I should start seeing what else this city has to offer besides my usual haunts. Meh.
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Oct 24, 2012 07:23
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Where I spent most of my time in Houston: Domestic beers: $3.50 Premium beers: $4.50 Wells: $5 Calls: $6 Premium: $7 We had a few liquors that were more, mostly scotches (and Patron), and Red Bull was a $1.50 upcharge
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We have 3.25 16oz draft, 3.75 domestic cans and well drinks.
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