![]() The part they never show takes place right before that, when the bartender makes change from a filthy ten-dollar bill. ![]() A customer walks up to a bar, the bartender fills a glass with ice, mashes it down with his hand, and then looks expectantly at the customer and says something like, “What’ll you have, Mac?” I’m talking about smashing the ice down in the glass with the palm of your hand after you’ve scooped the ice into it, and before you start pouring liquor into it.Ĭome on, you’ve all seen it in the movies before. But someone pulled me aside and told me how disgusting it is, and I’ve never done it again. ![]() I’ll admit, I did this on my very first night working with hard liquor. You don’t even have to pay for the drink first. Oh, and if you see him scooping the ice with his bare hands, just get up and leave. The ice scoop is there for a reason, and it’s made of metal or plastic for a reason: to keep the ice and the glass separate. The really sad thing about this practice is that your bartender had to work around his perfectly good ice scoop to do this. Either way, somebody is going home with a chunk of broken glass in their stomach. There are two possible scenarios here: either it’s now in your drink, or it’s about to be in someone else’s drink. And now there’s a little piece of broken glass floating around. So, let’s imagine that the glass he used to scoop the ice for your drink chipped a little when he dipped in the ice. Glasses tend to do that, because they’re made out of glass. The one thing I hate about working with glass is that it’s always breaking. He (I’m just going to assume it’s a guy) grabs a glass from the shelf and plunges it right into the ice, scooping out the ice for your drink. You order your gin and tonic, and the bartender proceeds to make it. Here’s what it is: you sit down at a bar and you order a drink. It’s also stupid and completely unnecessary. Seriously, it’s my biggest pet peeve, and whenever I catch any of my bartenders or waitstaff doing it I scream such bloody murder that you’d think someone was torturing a small animal.īut you know what? It’s dangerous. So here they are, the seven things you should never catch your bartender doing. I’ve worked in a lot of bars, I’ve seen a lot of shitty bartenders in my day and I feel there are certain things that you, the customer, have a right to demand of your bar staff. However, the truth is that I’m much harder on other bartenders than I am on customers. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.You may think I was a little harsh in my previous post, Eight Things You Should Never Say To Your Bartender. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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