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89 posted:My bar is pretty low lit, so I'm trying to find good stuff to illuminate our tip jars (drat broke rear end college kids on Thursdays...), anybody have any recommendations? I can't find any LED lit tip jars and I got these off amazon: There are LED coasters that'll light up a glass. Might work.
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89 posted:My bar is pretty low lit, so I'm trying to find good stuff to illuminate our tip jars (drat broke rear end college kids on Thursdays...), anybody have any recommendations? I can't find any LED lit tip jars and I got these off amazon: It won't work. Yelling at them about it works but your boss probably won't like it.
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Jan 18, 2014 20:41
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The college bar I go to most frequently apparently gives out a pamphlet about proper tipping etiquette if you don't tip. Also, I don't remember ever seeing a bar use a tipjar. I just leave the cash on the counter or hand it to the bartender directly.
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Jan 19, 2014 04:13
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Mr. Tibbs posted:The college bar I go to most frequently apparently gives out a pamphlet about proper tipping etiquette if you don't tip. The jar is behind the bar, where the bartender puts tips he/she has already been given/left on the bar.
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Jan 19, 2014 04:44
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Kaizoku posted:The jar is behind the bar, where the bartender puts tips he/she has already been given/left on the bar. At some places they have an actual tipjar on the bar. That usually says TIPJAR on it. The bartenders point at it or shake it at customers. Obviously these are bad places to work and often have a demographic of people who don't tip, but sometimes any job is better than no job.
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Jan 19, 2014 15:11
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Sheep-Goats posted:At some places they have an actual tipjar on the bar. That usually says TIPJAR on it. The bartenders point at it or shake it at customers. Obviously these are bad places to work and often have a demographic of people who don't tip, but sometimes any job is better than no job. Must be a cultural thing. Tip jars are common in all clubs I've been to in Canada, including the bar I presently work at. I don't point or shake at the tip jar, although sometimes I do make a point of emptying it if a group of punk 18 year olds stiff me on a large order.
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Jan 19, 2014 15:34
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Perdido posted:Must be a cultural thing. Tip jars are common in all clubs I've been to in Canada, including the bar I presently work at. I don't point or shake at the tip jar, although sometimes I do make a point of emptying it if a group of punk 18 year olds stiff me on a large order. When I see a tip jar about what I expect of the crowd is what you see at 1:55 in this video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1i44j_rah-digga-party-and-bullshit_music (Song is also notable for the lyrics at 1:10.) (I worked in a place where they played that once.) raton fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Jan 19, 2014 16:29
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As a Canadian who tips well, I love going to bars in places that are visited by tons of people who don't tip, because when I tip as I normally would in Canada, I get hooked up with free drinks and wicked service constantly (even free bottle service one time -- what a day that was!).
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Jan 19, 2014 23:38
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Perdido posted:Must be a cultural thing. Tip jars are common in all clubs I've been to in Canada, including the bar I presently work at. I don't point or shake at the tip jar, although sometimes I do make a point of emptying it if a group of punk 18 year olds stiff me on a large order. They are also commonly on the bar in Australia.
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Jan 20, 2014 04:39
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Sheep-Goats posted:When I see a tip jar about what I expect of the crowd is what you see at 1:55 in this video: Heads up, bud, not every country in the world has dollar bills anymore and it's super easy to throw a dollar or two dollar coin into a jar. Also, just because there's a jar on the bar doesn't mean there can't be one on the back bar. The jars up front are in sight: in mind, and are just as quickly and easily dumped into a bigger jar/bucket behind the bar as well. I've even had people ask me how they are supposed to tip me/where is your tip jar?! before when we do big events at my bar now where we don't use tip jars. It seems to be a pretty regional kind of thing, and if don't think there's anything wrong with that. I've never been in a bar where I've seen a tip jar and considered the place a bad bar solely because of that.
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Jan 20, 2014 11:15
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Does the crowd join in on "beat that bitch with a bat" up there in Canada too? Different customers.
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Jan 20, 2014 16:25
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Anybody got any suggestions for slightly unusual/obscure gin cocktails? I'm tired of drinking G&Ts or occasionally Tom Collins and I'm looking to branch out a bit. Looking for something easily drinkable and hopefully not too fruity.
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Jan 21, 2014 03:10
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Derek Agony posted:Anybody got any suggestions for slightly unusual/obscure gin cocktails? I'm tired of drinking G&Ts or occasionally Tom Collins and I'm looking to branch out a bit. Looking for something easily drinkable and hopefully not too fruity. A martini 
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Derek Agony posted:Anybody got any suggestions for slightly unusual/obscure gin cocktails? I'm tired of drinking G&Ts or occasionally Tom Collins and I'm looking to branch out a bit. Looking for something easily drinkable and hopefully not too fruity. Floradora. It fits the obscure criteria, although the fact that it's named after a Broadway musical and is named the Floradora might be a little high on the fruit quotient for you. You might wanna look at Pimm's Cup, too. Pimm's & soda with cucumber was a nice summer drink of mine for a while. Perdido fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Jan 21, 2014 05:45
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Derek Agony posted:Anybody got any suggestions for slightly unusual/obscure gin cocktails? I'm tired of drinking G&Ts or occasionally Tom Collins and I'm looking to branch out a bit. Looking for something easily drinkable and hopefully not too fruity. Go with the Negroni man
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Jan 21, 2014 05:51
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The Bees Knees. Dumb name. Seriously simple and tasty drink.
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Jan 21, 2014 07:25
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I'm a fan of pink gin. The Negroni is also good, but overhyped, and it's harder in the Midwest to find a bar with Campari than a bar with Plymouth.
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Jan 21, 2014 09:16
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nrr posted:I've never been in a bar where I've seen a tip jar and considered the place a bad bar solely because of that. I think it says more about the bar's crowd than the bar itself. The bar I work at, tips jars are on the bar. Our crowd is a mix of frat/sorority types and Midwest down home country folk, all between 21-24. The bars I hang out in, a tip bucket is on the back bar or somewhere under the bar. Their crowds are a lot of industry employees, people who are more interested in a good cocktail or beer rather than a packed bar, and generally people over the age of 25. If I walk up to a bar and I don't see tip jars my immediate thought is "You lucky fucks.." and if I do see them then "Yeah, I feel your pain.."
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Jan 21, 2014 10:11
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I'm a fan of Aviations. Very classic cocktail, but maybe a little impractical to make at home. So I'll go with Negroni because a bottle of Campari is not a bad thing to have in your bar.
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Jan 22, 2014 02:25
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We have tip rocks for our bar. It's an outside tiki bar on the beach so it's usually windy and it helps to have rocks on the bar to keep cash secured, at the same time we have TIP ROCK written boldly on each rock to remind people that we work for tips. It works really well. We also have a bucket to put the tips in, and we hang it from the ceiling just high enough to put the money in and make it difficult for someone to try and walk away with it since we're out in the open and it would be really easy to disappear.
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Jan 22, 2014 17:52
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There's also stuff like this that you can't get your thieving grubby hands into but has a screw top bottom so you can dump easily at the end of the night or intermittently into your main jar behind the bar. http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Plastic-Bartender-Tip/dp/B001CDTMHQ Probably doesn't help you American dudes though who are predominantly getting tipped in notes and would probably fill one of those up really quick or clog it at the neck.
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Jan 23, 2014 02:05
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Yeah that's way too small. On busy nights our bucket will overflow and we have to keep mashing it down or count it up for bigger bills, but if it's busy there usually isn't time to count it up in the middle of a shift.
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Jan 24, 2014 01:34
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Derek Agony posted:Anybody got any suggestions for slightly unusual/obscure gin cocktails? I'm tired of drinking G&Ts or occasionally Tom Collins and I'm looking to branch out a bit. Looking for something easily drinkable and hopefully not too fruity.
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Jan 24, 2014 06:44
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Cantorsdust posted:A martini I'm not nearly hardcore enough to describe Martinis as "easily drinkable". Perdido posted:Floradora. It fits the obscure criteria, although the fact that it's named after a Broadway musical and is named the Floradora might be a little high on the fruit quotient for you. I think the raspberry in the Floradora would put me off but Pimm's is a good shout. Never had it with soda though, over here it usually comes with lemonade and fruit/cucumber/mint. I'll try the Negroni through popular demand and also probably the Bee's Knees.
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Jan 27, 2014 07:05
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Pimms cup + 7up is the greatest thing. Its so basic but so nice. Way to easy to drink because its like no alcohol.
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Jan 27, 2014 21:46
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Slaapaav posted:Pimms cup + 7up is the greatest thing. Its so basic but so nice. Way to easy to drink because its like no alcohol. If you like that here are some other drinks without much alcohol: Virgin Martini - olive or lemon twist, served in martini glass New Fashioned - Sugar cube muddled with water Mormon 75 - Lemon juice, sugar White Russian - Kahlúa, vodka and cream
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Jan 27, 2014 21:55
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Cloks posted:If you like that here are some other drinks without much alcohol: One of these things is not like the others...
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Jan 27, 2014 22:58
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Everyone knows The Dude doesn't drink alcohol
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Jan 28, 2014 05:19
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Anyone else intentionally spill pints on the bar towards bar kissers to soak them in their own shame? It works a treat.
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Jan 29, 2014 20:31
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Faithless posted:Anyone else intentionally spill pints on the bar towards bar kissers to soak them in their own shame? It works a treat. No? Sounds like a good way to lose customers and piss people off. Depends on the venue though I guess.
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Jan 29, 2014 20:34
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Faithless posted:Anyone else intentionally spill pints on the bar towards bar kissers to soak them in their own shame? It works a treat. I find that politely informing patrons engaged in disruptive behavior about our preferences for our guests' behavior works even better. If they persist, the doorman can express the same sentiment more succinctly. rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 29, 2014 21:14
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I find "accidentally" throwing a beer is a good way to teach a lesson to girls who reject me too
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Jan 29, 2014 23:48
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Bar kissers are awesome because that's 2 less people I need to worry about maintaining orders from when I'm awash in walk-ins.
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Protip: if you fill your flask before you leave the house, the world is your bar and it's open. I had a tasting with the global brand ambassador for chartreuse today and found out something interesting and awesome that I wasn't aware of. Chartreuse actually continues to age after its bottled. As far as I know, it's the only spirit/liqueur that does so. What that means though, is that if you find an old bottle of chartreuse then snap it up. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of you had a bottle that's maybe 10+ years old in your bars. It really mellows out and gets a lot more delicate with age. NY crew might have known about this, as there's a guy over there specifically collecting chartreuse in his bar and selling a whole range of it dating back to the 40's or so. Either way, the concept itself is really interesting and I'm really curious what causes the aging to continue and if there's a way to replicate it. He said that the monks have discovered a way to get that natural green color extraction from the herbs/spices/etc that they use, without any added colorings at all, and they're the only distillery in the world to have discovered a method to do it. I'm guessing maybe the residual plant and vegetable matter from the color extraction might have something to do with it. Either way it's really cool and kind of exciting (to this nerd, anyway) to think that there is 30, 40, 50, even 60+ year old bottles out there that are not kept under lock and key by the distillery, but sitting in someone's grandmas liquor cabinet or something, just waiting to be discovered. So how do you date your bottles? On the metal seal just under the cap, there's a number printed. Take the first 3 years of that number and add them to the year the monastery/order was founded: 1084. That is the year it was distilled. The last three numbers are the day of that year. So a number of 926045 would be distilled in early march of 2010.
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Of course the last guy in the bar, so drunk that he couldn't hold his pen to sign his tab, bucks up at the door guy when asked to leave, sloppily attempts to fight the staff as he is being shown the exit, breaks the glass on the front door after you toss him in the street and lock the door in his face. Of course he does. Luckily I'm already on the phone with the dispatcher when this happens. They love us, so the squad car is there in about 90 seconds and my coworker already has him in a full nelson. Asked why he's being cuffed, and denying that he caused any damage, my buddy spins him around to look at the spiderweb fractures. "Oh poo poo," he says. Dude sobered up pretty quick after that. Enjoy your night in the drunk tank, dumbass. Any of y'all press charges for poo poo like that? To my knowledge we never do as long as they pay for the damage and understand they're permanently 86ed. Although one of our old door guys told me that while he doesn't think most drunk troublemakers need a criminal record, he did press charges against one guy with the intention of never going to court. Just made the guy hire a lawyer, waste his time and his money, and told them he couldn't appear in court for a while before dropping the charge.
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I wasn't working that night, but a drunk dumbass thought it would be a good idea to empty a fire extinguisher in the bathroom. I'm pretty sure the police were called and charges were laid, even though he paid for damages.
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mooyashi posted:Of course the last guy in the bar, so drunk that he couldn't hold his pen to sign his tab, bucks up at the door guy when asked to leave, sloppily attempts to fight the staff as he is being shown the exit, breaks the glass on the front door after you toss him in the street and lock the door in his face. Of course he does. We press charges if there is injury to staff. Otherwise, around here, your probably going to Detox which is like a 400 dollar medical bill and they won't let you go until you blow 0.00 on a breathalyzer. Get dropped at 3am Sunday morning with a .2 and you are gonna reaaaal lucky to make it to work Monday morning.
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odiv posted:I wasn't working that night, but a drunk dumbass thought it would be a good idea to empty a fire extinguisher in the bathroom. I'm pretty sure the police were called and charges were laid, even though he paid for damages. We had a guy pull our emergency system in the kitchen. That was a nightmare.
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Haha oh god, the door to the basement where the walkin, ice machine etc. were located used to be a handle. Said door was right across from the Men's room. After an unfortunate incident of a dude leaning on the door, dropping the handle with his butt and taking a drunken surf down the metal stairs, it was quickly replaced with a knob.
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