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That makes sense in Denver especially. Did have a party of 6 get up and leave because we didn't have Natural Light on draft...
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I am envious and also scornful of places that have enough cooler space to where they have Bud Light on draft (why?!) AND in bottles.
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navyjack posted:I love when people get so affronted that we only have Coors Light and not their particular flavor of hillbilly pisswater that they LEAVE to find a bar that has it! Seriously. The quickest way to get on my bad side is to ask me, what kind of place doesn't have x? You don't like it, feel free to gently caress off. I work at a big restaurant with a large patio, and I also love when it's 4 pm on a Friday, I'm juggling multiple prep duties, making drinks for the whole patio, and somebody walks in, sees the inside empty, and says, "wow, not very busy huh"
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Sep 9, 2016 20:49
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Yo also sound off: what's the garbage beer you have on draft? Ours was High Life for 10 years, now it's PBR
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Sep 9, 2016 20:49
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Bud light and four different Sierra Nevadas, it's all garbage beer. People ask what do you have that's hoppy? loving everything.
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Sep 9, 2016 21:48
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I only have 5 taps, so the garbage would probably be the house made sangria that I make bank off of
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Sep 9, 2016 21:57
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I like running through the tap list on request explaining where everything is from and a general profile to hear "hmmmmm I'll have a Mic Ultra"
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mooyashi posted:I like running through the tap list on request explaining where everything is from and a general profile to hear "hmmmmm I'll have a Mic Ultra" This is the worst poo poo especially when standing in front of the taps. I like talking about beer, but go to hell if you were just quizzing me. Garbage beer is Coors Light at one bar, Hamms or High Life at the other. E: also sometimes Shock Top. Holy poo poo poo poo is that beer bad.
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Sep 9, 2016 22:17
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Well I do sell tall cans of pbr for $4 so I guess that'd be it for me.
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We sell $3 PBR tall cans from opening to close. From 9-11PM, we have $1 Budlight, Miller Light, and Blue Moon, and we also have $1 well drinks (with the exception of tequila, which is $3). We also have $3 lemon drops. There's also a 25% chance every time somebody asks how much a shot of Fireball is and we tell them that it's $5....that they scoff and walk off disappointed.
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Sep 10, 2016 11:04
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We put on draft on sale until we ran out. Thank god we're not using them again. Our biggest sellers are Bud Light and Mic Ultra. All domestics are $2.50, but $5 for a domestic/well shot combo, which includes Fireball. Wed/Thur is $1 domestics all night.
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Sep 10, 2016 18:24
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Welp never had to kick people out for aggressively recruiting an orgy before, but there's a first time for everything
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mooyashi posted:Welp never had to kick people out for aggressively recruiting an orgy before, but there's a first time for everything I work at a swinger nightclub and playing grab-rear end is whatever. Problems occur when someone starts getting fingered right in front of the bar. We've interrupted blowjobs in the back corner, so now that section has the lights turned up.
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Sep 11, 2016 09:50
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Username checks out
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Sep 11, 2016 16:51
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Sticky Nate posted:*looks at bottles behind me* There's a cool bartender I work with who will just rattle off like 15-20 mixed drinks he knows that we can make with the ingredients we have, and then asks which one would you like
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Old Man Pants posted:There's a cool bartender I work with who will just rattle off like 15-20 mixed drinks he knows that we can make with the ingredients we have, and then asks which one would you like It's a lovely question, but that's a worse response unless it's a high volume place where wasted time equals lost sales. You should at least be able to take 10 seconds and ask "Beer, liquor, sour, sweet ???" to get someone started - a response like that just aggravates customers. But if it's high volume, yeah, gently caress anyone who walks up to the bar, flags down a bartender and doesn't have their order ready.
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Sep 16, 2016 20:00
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I work at a bar in San Diego with 36 craft beers on tap and damned if we don't sell more Kirin Ichiban than any other beer. I've got every style you can be looking for and flat out saying "It's pretty much a Dos Equis" is the best sales pitch I've got and damned if I don't sell 4+ pitchers at most big tables.
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Sep 16, 2016 23:21
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Shooting Blanks posted:It's a lovely question, but that's a worse response unless it's a high volume place where wasted time equals lost sales. You should at least be able to take 10 seconds and ask "Beer, liquor, sour, sweet ???" to get someone started - a response like that just aggravates customers. But if it's high volume, yeah, gently caress anyone who walks up to the bar, flags down a bartender and doesn't have their order ready. That's when you get a ghosting. Wave my rear end down and then turn around to your friends to figure out what you want, I'm already gone when you turn around.
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Sep 16, 2016 23:35
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My favorite is when someone waves at you, just wave back
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Sep 16, 2016 23:36
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TGG posted:I work at a bar in San Diego with 36 craft beers on tap and damned if we don't sell more Kirin Ichiban than any other beer. I've got every style you can be looking for and flat out saying "It's pretty much a Dos Equis" is the best sales pitch I've got and damned if I don't sell 4+ pitchers at most big tables. It's not my favourite, but after a decade of overhopped and/or high alcohol craft brews, I'm finding that I'd much rather just have a well-executed lager/pilsner. I've got wine if I want to sip and savor, and I've got liquor to get alcohol in me fast. Not that there aren't good craft beers in those styles, but they're disappointingly rare, especially in a lot of bars.
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Sep 16, 2016 23:39
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mooyashi posted:That's when you get a ghosting. Wave my rear end down and then turn around to your friends to figure out what you want, I'm already gone when you turn around. I went to an awesome wine bar in Madrid where the bartender was basically the soup nazi. It was the best bar ever. I gave him a big tip, by North American standards, the last time I was there, for remembering that customer service means taking care of all the customers, not just the entitled dipshits with no clue. (He was actually very friendly and accommodating if you were polite and didn't have your head firmly up your rear end, but that didn't save him from many Very Upset Yelp-cunts)
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PT6A posted:It's not my favourite, but after a decade of overhopped and/or high alcohol craft brews, I'm finding that I'd much rather just have a well-executed lager/pilsner. I've got wine if I want to sip and savor, and I've got liquor to get alcohol in me fast. Non-bartender here, but I absolutely agree with the above. I'll have maybe one of the "big" beers on tap, but give me a nice lager, ESB, or hefeweizen and I'll probably put back several.
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Shooting Blanks posted:It's a lovely question, but that's a worse response unless it's a high volume place where wasted time equals lost sales. You should at least be able to take 10 seconds and ask "Beer, liquor, sour, sweet ???" to get someone started - a response like that just aggravates customers. But if it's high volume, yeah, gently caress anyone who walks up to the bar, flags down a bartender and doesn't have their order ready. We're high volume, and often have lines 100 deep. If you've been standing in line for 10 minutes and still have no idea what you want, gtfo. mooyashi posted:My favorite is when someone waves at you, just wave back I love this idea.
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Sep 17, 2016 02:31
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mooyashi posted:That's when you get a ghosting. Wave my rear end down and then turn around to your friends to figure out what you want, I'm already gone when you turn around. Old Man Pants posted:We're high volume, and often have lines 100 deep. If you've been standing in line for 10 minutes and still have no idea what you want, gtfo. I have zero issue with that response in high volume - when there are 20 other people who know what they want, yeah, skip the idiot who doesn't.
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Sep 17, 2016 23:17
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I mean I get it, maybe you're half drunk and weren't thinking about it; I just don't have any pity. No matter what line of work you're in people wasting your time has to be the worst.
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Before I bartended and would blow by people who didn't know what they wanted, I was a pizza delivery driver - we answered phones while waiting for a run. At prime time, if I answered the phone and asked what you wanted to order, and you said "hold on... hey guys, what do you want on your pizza?!", you got put immediately back in the queue and I moved on to take someone's order. I just don't understand what would make someone stand in line at a bar and wonder what to order. I knew what I was going to order when I got in the car to drive to the bar. What did you think about for the last 5 minutes while you tried to get my attention?
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photomikey posted:Before I bartended and would blow by people who didn't know what they wanted, I was a pizza delivery driver - we answered phones while waiting for a run. At prime time, if I answered the phone and asked what you wanted to order, and you said "hold on... hey guys, what do you want on your pizza?!", you got put immediately back in the queue and I moved on to take someone's order. Nothing. They were busy on their phones, talking to their equally airheaded friends, or watching the game. Thinking is not what those kinds of people do. Ever. And a big and hearty gently caress you to motherfuckers that grab asses in bars. There's playful flirty touching with someone you're already talking to, and then there's walk up to a bachelorette party you've simply been oogling all night grabbing a handful of a stranger's bum. That's sexual assault bitch. I dunno what our doorguy did about it, but he's big and soft until he isn't. Absolute scumbag. And his shithead friend tried to stand up for him and say it was cool! Two sleazy fucks. Ally McBeal Wiki fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Sep 18, 2016 19:03
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Not only a hearty gently caress you, you can't come back, ever. Ever. 90% about why you're there anyway is trying to get laid. And you came to my bar because there were women. And if you make the women uncomfortable, they won't come in. And if they don't come in, you don't come in, I don't make rent... and yeah honestly gently caress you for grabbing asses
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Sep 19, 2016 06:17
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Dang, looks like I unsubscribed from this last winter, when I was living in a basement office managing a bar for a restaurant and miserable about same. Life's much more rad on the supply side! And what up, Choom. Get yr PMs together, man.
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I like when you 86 them for grabbing asses and they throw a hissy fit like they've been wronged in some way. No guy, I'm not going to calmly explain to you why it's not ok to grab strange women's butts whenever you feel like.
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Sep 24, 2016 09:20
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I can't believe it, after almost making it seven years in Hospitality I am now getting paid 40% more to work a 9-5 Monday-Friday job which doesn't cause me physical exhaustion and pain and I am actually getting appreciated for the work I do.
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Sep 30, 2016 10:32
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I did it, you guys. I found the most obnoxious costume to bar tend in. Ordered.
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Oct 7, 2016 09:39
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"Top shelf liquor? Sorry, can't reach it!"
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Oct 7, 2016 09:56
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We divvied up the amateur nights this year. One guy gets Halloween, one guy gets NYE, I take St. Patricks. I feel I have chosen poorly, but honestly we stuck the single guy with New Years, because women.
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Oct 8, 2016 08:50
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Like go find that one girl and kiss her, make a thing out of it. I gotta do laundry and it's my turn on the litter box the next day.
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Oct 8, 2016 08:51
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I had a customer ask me what I was going to be for Halloween this year. The answer is "drunk."
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Oct 8, 2016 08:53
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I'm lucky enough to work all three! *fart* NYE has been far gentler to me than either Halloween or St. Patricks. NYE is mostly a short slog at the places I work, whereas the other two are loving grinds. Especially St. Patricks. gently caress that garbage day.
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Oct 8, 2016 16:40
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Pretty stoked Halloween is on a Monday this year. Although I just realized that means I'll be in at 9 am for inventory, and then also working the party. Just can't win
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Oct 8, 2016 16:57
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So glad I dont have to work st.pattys parade in nola anymore. On the flip side, looking for a new job across the country is not very fun either.
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So, recommendations for ink to stamp people's hands with that doesn't wash away very easily?
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