new brewery looking at buying a dishwasher, this one is on auction but ive never even seen one like this. anybody have experience with one similar/any commentary on whether or not its a pain in the ass? thanks yall

I see bartenders in Chicago shake a vodka martini let it rest then add more ice and shake again and serve. Is there a name for this technique?

I’m a classic guy struggling on the apps. Everybody says you gotta meet someone in person these days, but that’s tough to do when you’re at work when everybody else is mingling at a happy hour. My days off are a classic industry weekend when most other spots are closed, and I don’t live in a city with great nightlife besides.

It’s been years since I’ve gotten a number at work, I don’t think it’s professional to earnestly flirt with customers on the clock, and my clientele at my spot doesn’t really consist of single women my age anyway.

How are you guys meeting people?

Both of these spots offered me a job to bartend around the same time. Who should I go with. I have no experience when it comes to bartending but I do have serving experience.

I think I used too much oil in my whiskey and now it's cloudy. I froze it and cleaned off the puck of solidified fat but it's still cloudy liquid. Refreezing it didn't work either. Any ideas?

Edit: I have ran it through a filter as well.

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻

I have never bartended before but I do have 2 years of serving experience from Red Lobster. They know I have no experience and they are offering to train me. I of course plan on saying yes and working there. Any advice from you guys?

I’m a 25m bartender in a small town. I’ve worked at this spot for about five months, really nice place, they host live music and events a few times a week. The other day there was some event in the back room, and basically all the attendees brought their kids with them. At some point about 10 kids ranging from ages 3-12 had filtered into my bar, completely devoid of a parent. They were super loud and disruptive and mildly destructive, caused a whole ruckus. After about 45 minutes of chaos I found one of the parents outside and asked if they would please take their kids. They did, but it really annoyed me.

Is this some common new thing that happens? I feel like up until like last year I never experienced anything like this but now it happens all the time, the other day was just of a different magnitude.

Hi all,

I have the opportunity to work at a cocktail bar/lounge 3 days a week, all 12 hour shifts. My previous restaurant gig the longest shifts I would work were like 5 hours. So this would clearly be quite the jump.

I’m currently working in healthcare doing admin work for 10.5 hours a day (30 min lunch so technically 10’s) so I’m used to a longer shift in that sense but I’m at a desk all day. But I’m bored. And 99% chance I would make more money at the bartending gig.

However, I will of course lose my benefits and 401k. If I can get on top of my shit and start saving myself that part wouldn’t be so bad. But in the future my goal is to get into remote healthcare data entry stuff, so I’m at least getting the experience right now.

Just curious on opinions and if you think it’s worth quitting and going to bartending for a while? Another thing I was considering was working part time at my healthcare job and picking up around 10 hours a week serving at a Mexican restaurant just to make some extra cash while keeping my current job. But there’s the possibility of burn out there too.

Thanks for reading my rant :)

This came from my FELLOW bartender who took a table on the floor. I said “Kasey… really” and she said “you know what I mean…. Don’t make me spell all that”

And to her credit…. Yeah 🤷‍♂️

I was out on Saturday and saw a bartender accidentally tip over an entire cocktail into the ice bin while placing a lime on the rim. She just picked up the cup out of the bin and carried on. Am I tripping or is that bad? I mean I definitely feel sorry for the lady, but I thought ice bins had to be cleaned out if stuff falls in there, especially an entire drink

There’s a video of someone making an AMF on instagram, and everyone’s in the instagram comments saying “did you just shake that?”

Why would you not shake an amf? Assuming you didn’t fill the shaker with soda… wouldn’t you want them to be mixed?

i.e Lemon/Lime/Curaco/Liquors? Are you supposed to taste each individually? I know it’s an AMF, so who cares anyways, but i’m curious?

Our old (really old) Halloween decors garments started turning to dust as we put it up this year. Any recommendations for a new one?

Heya, I'm new to bar backing (wanting to become a bartender with the training they'll be providing after the new year) but I can't reach the glasses as they have a one of those high-up bar setups. I can stand on the bottom of fridges but sometimes that won't even get me to reach/I can't properly balance & the glasses bounce back on me (must be very entertaining for the customers to watch me nearly shatter them over and over..!)

I was looking to get some non-slip shoes that have a chunky platform, and I've seen some options but I was wondering if anybody maybe in the same predicament can second some shoe brands for this. It's either I get these or I suck up the embarrassment and buy myself a fold up step stool for work which is really last resort.

Thanks!

Fifteen years behind bars and I have officially lived long enough to see the appletini come back around. Made two last week, both ordered without a trace of irony, both built with the good apple stuff instead of the neon Pucker. Real Simple is calling it the drink of fall. So settle this for me: is the elevated appletini actually good, or is this nostalgia doing pushups? And if you are making them, what are you building them with?

Newer bartender. I always had managers count the drawer, but at my new job I do. If my drawer is at $500 at the beginning of my shift and at the end its at $650 what is the extra $150?

I am currently a bartender at a dive bar. Recently, I was offered the opportunity to bartend at a Doubletree Hotel. They are looking for bartenders for the lobby bar and also to work events. Is this a good opportunity? Thoughts on working the lobby bar vs events? I’ve only worked in dives up until now, so I’m nervous about the idea of working in a different environment. However, I would like to expand my bartending experience and am always open to making more cash.
Note: I bartend p/t not f/t.

I landed a working interview at a bar in my college town, it‘s my first real job! It’s actually two bars in one (upstairs cocktail bar and a downstairs “club”) and barbacks will be expected to work both (but not in the same night). Just wondering if anybody has any tips (and also, I’m not sure what to wear).

The restaurant I work at has two wells and one is the service well and the other one is the bar well. So one bartender just does server drinks and the other is serving the bar and our two bar tables.

I basically only work the bar well as I prefer it and the other two bartenders both prefer the service well so it works out and don't like the bar well so it works out. Not that I mind working the service well, I just enjoy being able to chat with customers and move around more.

We split our tips 50/50 at the end of the night so I earn the tips from the customer while they earn the tipouts from servers. I'm honestly starting to resent this system as I feel like I am kind of getting screwed.

For example on Saturday I made 340 in tips and the server tipout was 70 dollars. So 410 dollars and after tipping out BOH and host/busser it was 333 dollars. So we both walked with 166.

Its super frustrating because I feel like I put so much effort into my shifts and I am always happy with how my shift went but then I walk with way less than I should have. Especially since the servers get the same amount of tips and don't have to split or close the bar (they work way less hours).

At the same time I don't really see how the situation can change at all or if there could be a better system.

Some people want it. Some don’t.

What I am here to talk about is why on earth are people so OPINIONATED about it?

“Who drinks a Blue Moon without an orange slice?!”
Lots of people

“Do I look like I put fruit in my beer?!”
I don’t know sir

These two pair fantastic. It's like a gingerbread house. But... Whiskey.

I’m currently in Australia and I’m trying to save as much money as possible in 2 months by working as a casual bartender and then quitting all jobs and travelling SE Asia.

i have picked up 3 jobs. One usually Monday to Thursday . next is Friday to Sunday 12 noon to 9pm and then again at a nightclub 10pm to 4am.

I haven’t started working this schedule yet (will start next week). It is scary as I’m not sure whether I’ll wreck my body. Do you have any tips to survive this? Or should I quit one of the jobs?