MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Last week I had to endure a case of mistaken identity and this week people cannot be bothered to even remember who I am. Given, my bar is high volume and turns a lot of customers but I can damn well remember every regular, every story, and every drink. I...
BARTENDERS DESCRIBE THEIR WORST CUSTOMER
If there’s a more thankless job than that of a bartender, we haven’t heard of it. You have to work terrible hours for bad money and you constantly run the risk of dealing with human nightmares who don’t know how to handle their alcohol. Bartender stories are some of the...
WHAT YOUR DRINK SAYS ABOUT YOU?
Consensus? Basically that anyone who orders a Jager bomb is an idiot. But apparently, so are people who order Blowjobs! 1. You’re just ordering this because you heard it in a rap song, aren’t you? I find that people who aren’t “real” drinkers order drinks that they’ve heard in rap...
10 Things I Hate About You!
1. Waving. Why not fire off a sea flare while you’re at it? I know you’re here. I’m gonna be with you in a minute. 2. The celebrity who’s going faux low pro. That’s fake low profile, and it’s false modesty. This dude, and it’s almost always a dude, is...
Bartender conIdential: Anonymous stories of evil from behind the bar!
Although they’re often misunderstood, most bartenders are genuinely good people who would never put their in a beverage. But when a bartender reaches their breaking point, all bets are off. They can become vengeful, conniving home-wreckers who take liberties with their positions of power, and are excellent at satisfying...
5 Shocking Stories From Behind The Bar
1. After I commented on the fact that two women sitting at a table across from the bar were wearing the same exact pair of designer heels, my co-worker, who had been serving them, told me that the women had met up there to confront their cheating boyfriend. Both women...
Top 5 Tricks of the Bartending Trade
Think bartenders are superhuman and remember all the drink recipes known to man? Think again. A good bartender won’t tell you he or she hasn’t heard of a drink you’re ordering. Instead, the bartender will tell you, “I know several ways to make this drink. Which is the one you...
Bartending and Flirting
As I have previously discussed being a bartender isn’t just about pouring the drinks. It’s a complex dance of flirting, strong will and oftentimes loose morals. You have to have the power and control to take over any situation that may arise at your bar. A weak personality will never...
20 RULES OF BARTENDING
Bartenders have no adjudicating body that can tell us all the right and wrong way of executing our jobs. Every bar is different, just as every person is different, and it is impossible to devise a system that works for all the various bars in the world, the hordes of...
DOs & DON’Ts
DOs & DON’Ts of Facebook Bar Marketing. Marketing your business without Facebook? That’s like making a Manhattan without whiskey. Today, Facebook bar marketing is a must: 4 out of every 5 American adults use Facebook – and 76 percent login daily. The secret is mixing up the perfect Facebook bar...
