Bartenders. What do you think of them?

[Bartender No.11074620]

Okay, /ck/. I know a lot of you are "industry" people (by that I mean you work or have worked in the restaurant or hospitality business). I want to know what your outlook is on our profession. I am a bartender. I want to know. Do you hate us? Do you think we're lazy? Do you think we have any talent? I've got some serious stories about my encounters with kitchen folk. I just want to get an honest perception on your feelings towards us.

[Anonymous No.11074631]

why do they all have tattoos?
i've never seen one without any tattoos
does being a degenerate just cause you to choose a shit career?

[Anonymous No.11074633]

I think they're bartenders.

[Bartender No.11074645]

>>11074631
Most of them do, you're right. I, however and a coworker of mine, do not. Its something that my father instilled in me at a very young age. Even at my drunkest, going out with friends getting a tattoo, I've never been tempted.
I wouldn't call my career very shit, desu. I find it fulfilling. I'm a great people person and humor is one of my strongest character points.
>>11074633
Right. That is very vague.

[Anonymous No.11074650]

the older male bartenders are usually very chill
older female bartenders are usually horrible
same as any older female working service
the young ones are all insane
not one of them has less than two DUIs

[Bartender No.11074674]

>>11074650
>the older male bartenders are usually very chill
I agree. I am 29, so I'm almost a boomer. I consider myself extremely chill. I am pretentious to THOTs and I love to tell them that we don't carry Malibu or Rose's lime juice. Everything we do is fresh daily. Everything made in-house.
>older female bartenders are usually horrible
By older, how old do you mean? I work with a 36 y/o and she is a complete rockstar. Super energetic and eager to learn more.
>young ones are all insane
Yes, I would agree, but I don't work with many "young ones" the youngest that tends bar with me is 25 and she is really chill, conservative type

[Anonymous No.11074686]

>>11074674
yeah best bartender I knew was a 35 ish woman. She made killer cocktails and was really stuck up but because she knew how to mix right and apparently wasn't willing or able to train the rest of the crew.

[Anonymous No.11074690]

>>11074674
>how old do you mean
depends on the individual but i've found most women get shitty to work with around their mid 40s

[Bartender No.11074710]

>>11074686
Sounds like someone I'd love to work with
>>11074690
Oh yeah. They are salty, burnt out as fuck. They don't move fast, and if you mention that, they get pissed. Its fun working behind a bar with attractive, proficient females. We have only two male bartenders; the manager, and myself. I'ts difficult to date a chick when all she thinks about is "hmm, I wonder what its' like for anon to work behind a bar with such hot ass." That jealousy is a total red-flag. Don't screw the crew (unless its the hostess).

[Bartender No.11075151]

bump

[Anonymous No.11075175]

>>11074674
>I am pretentious to THOTs and I love to tell them that we don't carry Malibu or Rose's lime juice

You get lots of thots asking for gimlets?

[Anonymous No.11075184]

>>11074674
you're still a bloodsucking millennial. Get a real job, loser

how's your retirement looking?

[Anonymous No.11075187]

they're mostly fucked up, one guy I know was raped by his dad, another's dad was gay and killed himself. Or they're depressed underachievers, but I generally like them if they're cool, that is ok for a chat and serves me when I'm fucked up

[Anonymous No.11075195]

>>11074620
>Do you hate us?
No

>Do you think we're lazy?
Lazy no. Wasting time yes

>Do you think we have any talent?
No

> I just want to get an honest perception on your feelings towards us.
I dont see why you guys get paid more than baristas

[Anonymous No.11075295]

I like making cocktails but I would never be a bartender. It's a dead-end service job. I appreciate what they do, but I would hope they have some longer term career ambitions. The only bartenders for which I have no respect are the ones that just crack open bottles of beer all evening, groan if asked to make anything more complicated than spirit+mixer and then act like they deserve a tip.

[Anonymous No.11075389]

>>11074620
Im just over the NY flyover border so its all middle aged women with nothing else to do. I have only ever seen one bartender that was not a woman in the 35-50 range.

[Anonymous No.11075397]

The ones at nicer bars are generally fine.
The ones that are girls who fish for tips by half-flirting with patrons leave a bad taste in my mouth and don't get tipped. I knew a girl in college who worked at a freshman club/bar and would wear low-cut shirts and squish her tits together whenever she prepared drinks, frat guys would tip her $50s all the time and she'd bring home hundreds of dollars even on slow nights. Part of the reason I tip bare minimum to w*men now

[Anonymous No.11075418]

>>11074631
Is it legal to not have tatoos in the "west"? It would seem like it's some kind of law. Or maybe being retarded is a norm now.

[Anonymous No.11075422]

>>11074620
Same as everyone else. Some are fine, other are douchebags.

One thing I have noticed though: In the world of food industry, bartenders are the only one's who are always "right" (as opposed to restaurants etc., where the customer is always right).

This gives them a slightly different attitude, but my impression of bartenders are mostly alright

[Anonymous No.11075430]

>>11075397
>t. jelly incel

[Anonymous No.11075443]

>>11075430
>Paying someone money because they were born with two X chromosomes

[Anonymous No.11075464]

All the bartenders I used to work with were way too fucking professional even though the bar we worked in was a shithole.

[Anonymous No.11075532]

>>11075443
By this logic it is the patrons you deem idiots. But still, it is the female bartender you aim your frustration at ("I tip bare minimum to women now"). This is why I know you are an insecure beta fag

[Anonymous No.11075547]

It seems like something you do until you find something better, like working in a store or a warehouse but it requires more charisma. Unless you actually own the place it looks like a pretty shit job.

[Anonymous No.11075567]

>>11074620
I really only like the ones over 40, especially if they are men. They've been doing it forever so they know a bunch, they're not going to flirt with you for tips, and are generally unpretentious.

[Anonymous No.11075636]

>>11074620
Thinking about it now, I've had my best experiences with female bartenders, but that's just all anecdotal anyway.

I find that for the most part, my impression of them is this
>>11075422

Having said that, what I consider as the better encountered bartenders answer my questions about drinks if I ask, (or answer it to the best to their abilities; I sure you know more than me given you're surrounded by drinks all day, but I don't expect you to know everything).

The worst ones have this strange vibe of pretentiousness and all seem to fit into this weird category of 'I could see this guy selling me coffee at that new hipster joint'. One stand out memory of that is this one guy who spent a good amount of time talking to me about japanese whisky- just some one sided conversation, framed like I had literally never heard that the japanese made whisky. At some point I lament on how some suntory lines are being rebranded/reshuffled and he just objects and says no I'm wrong all the age statements that were there are still there and nothing is changed. Also asked him about a the flavour of a cocktail and his description was that 'it tasted like sex'- I'm not asking if it's 'good' you doofus do your job and tell me what the flavour profile is etc.

Anyway, I've since learnt to avoid that place, and others that seem to market themselves to the hipster crowd and things have seemed to be a lot more pleasant overall. I fact, I'd say that my favourite bars aren't so much bars but pubs.

[Anonymous No.11075705]

>>11074690
>>11074710
>Sounds like someone I'd love to work with
>Oh yeah. They are salty, burnt out as fuck.
Only the ones who fell for "career is better than starting a family" meme.
Looks are gone, nobody wants to fuck them, cats are the only option, they are lonely & horny, and on some level they realiase they have been fooled by the jewmedia.

My wife works with a lot of women, and told me storries....

[Anonymous No.11075772]

visible tattoos = no tip.

[Anonymous No.11075780]

>>11075184
Yeah, I'm sure you got your 401k all sorted out.

[Anonymous No.11075783]

>>11074620
Most bartenders in my tourist town cant even make a decent long island so I think you all fucking suck.

[Anonymous No.11075800]

>>11075184
This isn't helping you fit in.

[Anonymous No.11075813]

I want my beer poured and a refill sitting there before I'm done with it. That's it. I generally like bartenders, but I must give off a vibe that I don't tip or want to socialize because they avoid me the first time I go in somewhere. The bar will be empty and they'll be doing jack shit. Some are really chill, but others don't have the personality for it. Maybe it's just daydrinking on a retail schedule that does it.

[Anonymous No.11075878]

>>11074620
Is it true that most od bartenders are functioning alcoholics?

[Anonymous No.11075938]

>>11074620
how can i into bartending if im basically a shut-in

[Anonymous No.11075947]

>>11075878
I think this is also true of old staff at liquor stores

the old country dude at mine was stumbling and slurring his words but could still recommend a good malbec

[Anonymous No.11075963]

>>11075532
Roastie detected

[Anonymous No.11075987]

>>11075705
>bartering
>career.

Ahahahaha.

[Anonymous No.11075989]

>>11075813
I want to be left the fuck alone and I don't want anybody to touch my goddamn beer until I drink every damn sip of it.

[Anonymous No.11076026]

>>11074620
to me, bartenders are less whiny and backbiting than the rest of the waitstaff. they're usually not as stupid as most the waitstaff (and especially hosts, the lowest rung) and seem a little more charismatic. although, i have known bartenders that are quite the opposite, constantly whining and very willing to backstab other people. those ones are incredibly self-centered and only care about their own tips, and are a goddamn nightmare to work with.

[Anonymous No.11076036]

>>11075184
his take home is likely more than yours, wagie.

[Anonymous No.11076053]

Frenchfag here, worked as one 10 years ago when I was still a student and had to pay for my rent and food. So I might be biased. I feel that during happy hour or saturday nights at a popular club/pub your work gets a lot more intense than let's say waiters yet people rarely tip, except when they're drunk as fuck and tell you to keep the change and it's a rich fuckboy handing you a 50 for 2 jack daniels and you're like damn food for the week. Do bartenders even get tipped in America? If not then damn it must be shit.

[Anonymous No.11076066]

>>11075783
>decent
>long island

pick one, Agnes.
long island is a garbage drink for menopausal spinsters.

[Anonymous No.11076077]

>>11076053
bartenders usually not only get tipped from every drink they make (even if it goes to a table they're not attending), if the place serves food, they will earn tips on top of that. in a restaurant, the bartenders will usually have the highest take home among the entire waitstaff.

but they will still gripe about not getting enough money.

[Anonymous No.11076084]

>>11076077
Oh, here in Frogland tipping isn't mandatory (but on the other hand the minimum wage is way higher) so establishments say that tipping is included in the price and compulsory if the customer really liked the service.

[Anonymous No.11076085]

>>11074620
>spends 30 seconds making a cocktail
>pay out of the ass for it
>expects a tip
millennial entitlement: the job

[Anonymous No.11076196]

>>11074620
Bartenders are usually the only cool people out of all FOH.

[Anonymous No.11076293]

I never trust a woman bartender. Never got a decent drink from one.

[Anonymous No.11076543]

>>11074645
Not sure if larping or not, but I won't even drink alcohol. It's for disinfecting

[Anonymous No.11076554]

>>11075987
Heh, yeah...
But I ment in general.

[Anonymous No.11076565]

>>11076543
>tattoos are forbidden
>alcohol is forbidden
you can leave now maqmoud

[Anonymous No.11076595]

>>11074645
Is this picture from Butchertown Grocery?

[Anonymous No.11076605]

>>11074620
99.9% single mothers addicted to drugs who smoke too much.

.1% fags who for some reason can mix a drink correctly without smelling heavily of cigarettes

I've literally never encountered the single mom drug addicts

[Anonymous No.11076620]

Entitled shit bags

[Anonymous No.11078021]

>>11074620

I don't because I'm able to mix my own drinks at home.

[Anonymous No.11078029]

>>11075175

The gimlet is the thinking THOTs cocktail of choice.

[Anonymous No.11078093]

>>11074620
>>11074620
I'm a bartender in Japan. Spent a couple of years traveling through Canada and the US and bartenders are fuckheads over there.
Drinking in bars there sucks too; cant smoke, sports on a TV is distracting, bartenders dont drink on the job and are usually too busy to entertain guests, billiards/pool tables take up too much space, cramped seating and the worst part is people dont talk to each other. They only go to the bar with their 1-3 closest friends and only talk in that group. Cash registers and receipts bring unnecessary paper and ink into it too. Dont get me started on the servers and tipping.

[Anonymous No.11078099]

>>11075783
eh not a big deal though. the Long Island is the budget "get me fucked up for as little money as possible" drink, let's be fair.

[Anonymous No.11078105]

>>11075878
Where I live, bartenders are expected to match pace of drinks with the customers. If it's a Monday night and you're my only customer and you order a tequila, I'm pouring one for myself too.
On a normal night I'm often wasted by 10o'clock and dont remember coming home. On a busy night though I'm usually too busy to get that drunk.

[Anonymous No.11078111]

>>11075938
If you live in a country with tipping you're fighting an uphill battle. If you're not a big-tittied blonde chick you need to do mixology courses, bartending classes and get certificates then apply as kitchen staff or a server to some place and hope you stay there long enough that one of the bartenders quits or gets fired.

[Anonymous No.11078114]

>>11076026
if a bar has any staff other than the 1-2 bartenders it's a red flag

[Anonymous No.11078133]

>>11074674
female bartenders that have hit the wall love to bring their baggage to work with them and love to make shitty drinks with tons of alcohol and no measurements

[Anonymous No.11078151]

>>11078093
Plz commit sudoku

[Anonymous No.11078168]

>>11078133

I like VA-11 Hall-A too, but you forgot to mention that everyone the bartender interacts with is secretly bisexual or a lesbian.

[Anonymous No.11078179]

>>11074620
Male bartenders can be all right, but are usually either insufferable hipsters or douches. All female bartenders are thots, without exception.

[Anonymous No.11078206]

>>11075532
>But still, it is the female bartender you aim your frustration at ("I tip bare minimum to women now")
More like he knows they're making mad dosh, so no use throwing his hard earned money at them because the usual "muh poor minimum wage servers" argument doesn't apply.

[Anonymous No.11078210]

i think you are all fags and should get a real job

[Anonymous No.11078252]

>>11075430
Anyone who unironically uses the term incel as a comeback is a confirmed redditor, I hope this is bait.

[Anonymous No.11078256]

>>11078093
Are you a Jap or a filthy gaijin?

[Anonymous No.11078380]

>>11078256
Gaijin, getting a job in a bar here is as easy as piss if you're gaijin. You need to speak at least a bit of Jap though.

[Bartender No.11079460]

>>11075195
>wasting time
How is that? Every move you make, there is potential to make more money. You have to hustle.
>>11075295
Don't go to dive bars.
>>11075422
There is a little more of a power trip behind the bar as opposed to being a server.
>>11075464
>too fucking professional
What does that mean? No drinking on the job? I'm guilty as fuck of that.
>>11075567
I agree 100%. Also, they really don't put up with a lot of bullshit.
>>11075184
>get a real job
I "had" a real job and I quit it. I used to do underwriting for Beazley in London. I got sick of the insurance world and wanted to do something fun.
>>11075783
>Tourist town
There's your answer, dumbfuck
>>11075938
Go to a bar you really like and ask questions... but don't be annoying about it.
>>11075989
Good. I hate people who pay cash as they go and just leave it on the bar. I HATE THAT. They are usually all old fucking boomers that drink piss water beer
>>11076085
>spends 30 seconds making a cocktail
I'd love to see how long it would take your ass to make a Tito's and soda. I bet you would spill the ice all over the place you fucking faggot.
>>11076196
Pretty much this. You have to be. If you're a fucking dolt, you won't last long. Fuck, even as a barback I would be fun and charismatic, even though that job sucked ass. So much back work and little recognition.
>>11076293
I think you're incredibly biased.

[Anonymous No.11079482]

>mfw working as a poor lonely dishwasher and seeing bartenders making tons of cash by drinking with chicks all night long
Don't have the best memories about you lot.

[Bartender No.11079518]

>>11079482
I feel you, dude. I enjoy getting face time in the kitchen as much as I can, so I don't look like a pretentious asshole. I love the shit talking that happens there. I'm a total shit talker myself and the kitchen loves when I come in with the bantz even if I am just checking on tickets or telling the expo to modify something I fucked up. Its mad respect. I'm really the only one that does it.

[Anonymous No.11079536]

>>11075397
>tipping meme
Maybe if Americunts actually had workers rights that bullshit would disappear.

[Anonymous No.11079546]

>>11074710
>cash only bar
ohhhhh fuck that place in the ass

[Anonymous No.11079552]

Jesus Chris how did you end up in this place dude, you're way too nice to be hanging out in here
anyway, I've only had very short interactions with bartenders so can't say much, they do their job well, it looks horribly hectic when it's busy, and some are nice and chatty when it's quiet
I have an acquaintance who's a bartender in a kind of club, pretty much your age, and for the last 3-4 years she keeps doing the whole "girls just wanna have funxD" shit so I dunno
and yes of course she has tattoos. She and all her friends have richer boyfriends who take them on nice vacations
it depends on the country I guess
I think the possibility of tips change the profession quite a lot

[Bartender No.11079568]

>>11079546
Yeah. My mental math is really piss poor. I hate dealing with money. Especially the germs.
>>11079552
>you're way too nice
Dude, this place is a breath of fresh air. I work in a cut-throat industry. I am fucking shitlord. /pol/ is my true home. I honestly hate niggers, as I can predict exactly what they order to a tee. My co-workers this I'm profiling, but I'm just like "Hey, watch this. That darkie at seat 105? He is going to order wings and ask for hypnotic (which we don't carry) and then a shot of "henny" My banter with patrons is very well gauged. I am quick with a retort and I have nearly memorized a book of dad jokes (chicks love cheesy dad jokes).
>whats forrest gump's favorite type of pasta?
............. PENNNAYY

But thanks for the compliment I guess.
I date chicks and they leave me cause we have "scheduling conflicts" or they think I'm sort of fuccboi and can't be trusted. Dating life sucks in this profession.

[Anonymous No.11079602]

>>11079568
>bartender
>mental math is piss poor
I see why you became a bartender then.

[Bartender No.11079616]

>>11079602
If you didn't read before, I was an underwriter with Beazley in London at Lloyd's.
Go ahead, laugh it off. I'm drinking some fine Spanish brandy.

[Anonymous No.11079635]

>>11079616
>he ended up being a bartender

[Anonymous No.11079650]

>>11079635
Office work isn't for everybody.
t. archivist turned welder

[Anonymous No.11079652]

>work in busiest and smallest bar in town
>place is a dump, walls are covered in black scuff marks, dents and random holes in the wall, clock doesnt work, floor hasn't even been mopped in living memory (customers think it's a black painted floor but it's actually concrete)
>upstairs is a fancy wine and jazz bar
>they have bad signage
>every so often when we're busy we get a couple or a small group of people in suits come in and order some fancy cocktails or a glass of wine
>they look visibly disgusted at the state of the joint but amazed that it's packed
>they sip their box wine until one of em check's their phone and realises they're in the wrong place
>mfw 30min later they come back down because the wine bar is boring compared to the sleaze and debauchery we have going on in our bar
Owner of the wine bar upstairs fucking hates us for it

[Anonymous No.11079654]

>>11079635
>not wanting a job where you're basically drinking at a bar like normal except you pour a beer or do the dishes every now and then
only shitty part is stinking like cigarette smoke and being hungover after work every day

[Bartender No.11079672]

>>11079635
I invested soundly. I have a house, a nice car, and everyone asks what the fuck am I doing behind a bar? Well, my answer is simple. All throughout my corporate life, I've loved going out, going to a bar, having a nice drink and food experience, and I thought I could provide that with people face to face, instead of trying to solve someone's insurance issues. Ever since college, I loved going to new bars / restaurants. I was fortunate to have the funds provided for me to live this lifestyle. I really don't have to explain myself to you, but I want you to at least gain perspective as to what it is to leave a comfy lifestyle for something more challenging on many different levels. Added bonus, when corporate types come (in shitty suits), they are really surprised at how educated I am. Although its funny when someone says "Oh! I work in insurance too!" and they are a fucking State Farm Agent. lol.

[Bartender No.11079682]

>>11079652
Dude, I just laughed out loud. You serve boxed wine??
No offense, but I am going through sommelier courses now because I want to school people on wine. How the fuck do you do that behind a bar? do you leave the bags under the bar and pour it? Surely you wouldn't let anyone see that you are pouring "Bota Box" or "Fish Eye" If you do, I'd love to work at your place just to fuck with people.

[Anonymous No.11079766]

>>11079682
The boxes straight up sit on the shelf below the bourbon & rum and above the fridge. Someone asks for wine, we pour it into a glass. $4, thanks cunts.
Occasionally we might have a bottle of something nice if a regular or a friend of someone brought one in.
The owner makes really fucking good sangria though, usually when someone orders wine we ask em first if they'd prefer the sangria.
Overall wine's not that popular in this area anyway and wine-focused bars usually go out of business. The one upstairs is only still in business because of the live jazz music they put on.

[Anonymous No.11079807]

>>11079568
/pol/ is my home
sorry then, I misspoke, I hope you get stabbed on the job with a broken bottle of the cheapest liquor you have in stock
you take care now anon

[Bartender No.11079831]

>>11079807
Why? you some stupid liberal faggot?

[Anonymous No.11080204]

>>11076595
502fag?

[Anonymous No.11080769]

Will maybe abandon my NEETdom for some bartending business soon. Just got interviewed at a temp agency and spoke about starting in September. Only have to pass this stupid hygiene license thing they mostly demand in here now, but it should be a breeze.

>>11078093
>cant smoke

This was the single most best thing to happen to bars where I live. Clothes don't smell rancid anymore after a night out and the hangovers are far milder.

>>11078380

Stop it waito piggu, you're making my inner "I wanna move and work in Japan" zoomer weeb wake up again. I speak some nip and hung out with them ryuugakusei in college. Great memories, greatest time in my life.

[Anonymous No.11081803]

>>11079460
>too fucking professional
I almost got charged for a drink I spilled on a customer
I had to chug a beer after hours (that I paid for) to avoid being caught by the manager because they didn't like staff hanging out around the bar for reasons unknown to anyone
None of them ever told the manager off even though he was an asshole cokehead who didn't even know how to do his job

make sense?

[Anonymous No.11081916]

>>11074620
Your pic related is not a bartender. Females can be beertenders at best.

[Anonymous No.11081927]

>>11075184
Boomers are going to be the ones in iron lungs, surrounded by people who benefit from pulling the plug.

[Anonymous No.11081932]

Bartenders is the scum of the world. They pretend to be your friend and when they dont get the amount of tip the they think they deserve, they backlash you.
No wonder most of them turned alcoholic.

[Anonymous No.11082064]

>people ITT keep shit talking bartending as a career
>meanwhile my friend texted me last week how he made 85k last year from bartending in vegas, easily could have passed 100k if he stayed a full 12months
most of you losers don't even clear 50k so why all the shit talk?

[Anonymous No.11082130]

>>11078380
Stop encouraging globalism, Jew.

[Anonymous No.11082231]

>>11076053
Tipping culture is insane, and I say this as someone who thinks it's a theoretically good practice.
You're expected to pay at least a couple of dollars per drink. $1 used to be the standard but now servo scum are acting like that's not good enough. Imagine a patron has 5 drinks at a bar, and leaves $2 each. 10 bucks right right there, for uncapping a couple of beers. Now remember that hundreds of patrons come through the bar on busy nights. Do the math.
Even worse when you consider that in college towns, there will be a handful of female bartenders who will (according to rumors) fuck you if you tip them enough, so you get drunken Chads telling them to keep the change on a 10 or 20 with every drink they get, regardless of the effectively 0% chance of anything coming from it.

[Anonymous No.11082326]

>>11082231

Who do you think started those rumors?

[Anonymous No.11082337]

>tfw really want to give the hip,easygoing bartender lifestyle, but I'm an ugly fuck with bad fashion sense and no money to improve it even if I could

Guess I'll just wageslave.

[Anonymous No.11082365]

I'm a patron whose never worked in a restaurant/bar.

They vary, in my opinion, quite widely. I like someone is mildly attentive, and good natured. I'm not of a fan of the rude and disinterested personality that so many appear to have(i'm in a large west coast city, so this is about 50% of bartenders). Evidently other patrons(especially boomers) think this type of treatment is funny/charming but I'm not a fan. I think many of you clearly have talent.

[Anonymous No.11082381]

Usually are failures in life, that's why they spend their weekend nights working. If they don't have the weekend shift.

I tip a large amount $10-15 or more after my first drink and it is usually appreciated. That way I don't tip after every drink but this one asian whore of a bartender apparently got upset I didn't tip her after tipping the previous bartender 15 bucks.

I spit on her face and got kicked out. Don't regret nothing.

[Anonymous No.11082397]

>>11082231
I tip 10 bucks when I buy my first drink. I don't like tipping after every drink, I don't care if the bartender has a problem with it either. After a few drinks I'll tip 5 bucks every couple rounds.

Tipping culture needs to be abolished in the USA, it creates entitled fucks who think they deserve your hard earned money for simply pouring a cup or moving a plate.

I wish we could have full self service bars and cut out these parasites.

[Anonymous No.11082408]

>>11082064
Your friend most likely is an alcoholic, and works nights and weekends. In the meantime, I eclipsed what your homosexual whore of a friend made by simply buying ETH last year.

Tell your friend its a shame he didn't catch a stray bullet during the vegas shooting.

[Anonymous No.11082426]

>>11078093
>the worst part is people dont talk to each other. They only go to the bar with their 1-3 closest friends and only talk in that group

THIS the few times where i've struck up a good conversation with someone new at a bar, it's been great. We were almost euphoric like we were seeing the code of the matrix thinking "oh this is actually enjoyable!"

[Anonymous No.11082434]

>>11082397

Damn, imagine having one of those new digital soda fountains, except instead of a ridiculous selection of sodas, it has an entire bar's worth of liquors and mixers.

[Anonymous No.11082452]

>>11082434
This will anger these subhuman chromosome deficient entitled cum guzzling dick riding faggots we call waiters and bartenders in the Jew S of A.

[Anonymous No.11083234]

Tipping is not mandatory. The sooner you cucks learn this, the faster tipping culture goes away.

[Anonymous No.11083305]

>>11079682
Wine fucking sucks and is for faggots.

[Anonymous No.11083689]

>>11074620
What type of bar do you work in? I'm at a sports bar with 41 taps (some macro, mostly craft). Had training in cocktail bars and fine dining so I've slowly implemented some of those experiences into my current spot. Half of my coworkers are inefficient as fuck. One chick who claims to have been bartending for a few decades thought Martinis used fucking simple syrup, lol.

Fucking love how a decent chunk of my regulars are fellow industry folks, which I feel allows for a bit more candid banter. Always strikes me as funny how this line of work changes how one talks to others. I forget the last time I said 'okay' when acknowledging something.

[Anonymous No.11083698]

>>11082434
it would need to be a lot bigger since alcohol takes up a larger volume than syrups

[Anonymous No.11083706]

>>11082434
Waiting on indecisive fucks at soda fountains is hard enough, imagine that shit at a bar.

[Anonymous No.11083714]

I work in the French quarter in an upscale restaurant, used to not like the bartenders mostly because they made so much more than me, but when I got switched to being a bartender I loved it, loved the upscale piano dim lit aspect, also I just felt super fancy and it was always cool talking to the customers

Always take a break during mardi gras though, fucking hate mardi gras, so many fucking faggot outsiders come and think i'm some sort of weird specimen

[Anonymous No.11083720]

>>11074631
>why do they all have tattoos?
bartending is one of the few jobs in the US that actively hires people with visible tattoos. it's one of the only jobs where people being distracted by you and wanting to get your attention and socialize more with you is a good thing that leads to more sales.

[Anonymous No.11083729]

>>11083689
I'm the bartender in Japan from earlier in the thread. 41 taps? jesus fuck. I'm jealous as fuck. We have only 3 taps. Beer, Chuhai (alcohol soda) and Highball (whisky soda).
If someone wants beer that isnt just the Suntory we have on tap we have a couple of bottles of corona, heineken and bass in the fridge but I wish we had something more interesting.
Craft beer is just starting to take off here though in the last couple of years so here's hopin'.

My bar is only 8ft wide and maybe 20-ish ft long. Only usually 1 staff working per night, mostly English teachers who do it one night a week for extra pay/free drinks, a couple of Japanese, the owner herself works a night or two. The bar itself is small but on a typical fri/sat night we get 20ppl in easy, double that if some kind of event or it's someone's birthday.
Behind the bar is so narrow though, basically cant move more than shuffling 1ft left or right, squeezing past another bartender usually results in dicks touching butts but whatever. we just have to rely on teamwork, passing drinks/glasses/bottles/money back n forth. Kind of fun, in a chaotic way.

>martini's with syrup
eck, that sucks. to be fair though a martini is a drink no-one fucking orders. about the most complicated our cocktails get is maybe a Moscow Mule but usually 95% of our orders are beer, whisky or gin & tonic.

>regulars are industry folk
lucky bastard. mine are friends, friends of friends or "friends of friends of a guy they know who knows yadda yadda" of the owner or their friend circle. beyond that it's businessmen getting wasted after work, Foreigners or Japanese who come to practice English. Cant complain though.

>>11083706
Yea fuck that noise.

[Anonymous No.11083734]

>>11083714
Looks comfy as fuck anon. 10/10 would order a fine scotch and smoke a cigar with you.

[Anonymous No.11083759]

>>11083729
gunna continue, cuz we have a couple of funny regulars and I'm interested to hear about some of /ck/'s regulars:

>old whisky guy
he's this funny 80yo something guy that usually sits at the bar silent most of the night. he only exclusively drinks straight whisky, no ice but the glass filled to the very top. Guy basically gets half a bottle's worth of whisky in each glass. He sits there and sips it while chain smoking 1 or 2 packs of cigarettes. His English is fucking fluent though and once every now n then he'll chime in on some bullshit that foreigners or tourists are talking nearby.

>The Giant Jerk
a fucking 7ft 30-something Japanese dude, only ever had him order Long Island Iced Teas. He knows shitloads about cars and just talks AT YOU non-stop about cars, like some kind of Automobile Asian Rainman. I just kind of nod and pretend to understand wtf he's saying.

>Tranny
pretty convincing looking Japanese tranny, usually after midnight at least someone new to the bar gets wasted enough to think he's a chick. The tranny seems to come in like 4 days a week and sometimes brings cakes or bottles of wine for the staff/bar to all share. One night we had some Swedish guys on a business trip drinking and one of em was gay, told me he had a crush on the tranny but couldn't speak English. I hooked em up. Felt gud man, as weird as it was.

>a fat chick that comes in like 4 nights a week
>a businessman that flies internationally 3x a month for business trips, so he comes in to brush up on his English (while getting blind on G&Ts.

it's a weird crowd.

[Anonymous No.11083768]

>>11083734
Not my bar lol, worked at the Ruth's Chris in the warehouse district, but still very comfy, especially during rainy winter nights, loved it there, but sadly had to leave nola due to the place becoming a cesspool

[Anonymous No.11083770]

>>11083759
>>11083729
God I would love to work in an upscale tokyo bar, shit seems so cool, new orleans was great and I met people from all over the world, but I imagine Tokyo has some real fuckers there

[Anonymous No.11083788]

>>11083770
i'm not in Tokyo, i'm in the Japanese mid-west in a small city that gets a little tourism but is mostly quiet.
our bar is far from upscale but that's part of why we all like it really. it's dirty, it's nasty, there's holes in the walls here n there but it's a place everyone can let go and not have to worry about social hierarchy, looking good, public image or any of the usual shit Japanese have to put up with. It's the kind of bar that you can go to by yourself and stagger home 4 hours later with 10 new contacts on facebook and a new friend's circle.
>hi i'm drinking beer
>Hi! I'm also drinking beer.
>Cool, now we're friends.

there are like 4 larger, fancier, cleaner bars with better drink selection than us on our city block and we still pull bigger crowds because upscale posh leads to being uncomfortable which leads to a night that's not that fun for a lot of people. Though upscale has it's place.

I kinda wish our place was bigger though, we dont even have a sidewalk in front of our bar, you step out of the door and have to check you dont get hit by a taxi. A few nights we were so busy that customers just started drinking in the street blocking traffic. The police politely asked us to keep drunk people off of the road because taxi drivers were complaining we were slowing down their routes.

[Anonymous No.11083863]

>>11078093
>bartenders and entertaining guests
I really appreciated this when I was over there. Guy didn't have a huge grip on the english language but he had certainly had some tricks up his sleve

[Anonymous No.11083887]

>>11079650
>t. archivist turned welder
Oh cool, I'm a software dev looking at other options, welding catches my eye, also considering chef. Debt free, made some savings but I kinda knew that what I enjoyed about my job wouldn't last. Not sitting all day sounds good.

[Anonymous No.11083903]

>>11082337
>ugly fuck with bad fashion sense and no money to improve it even if I could
All these things can be changed, even the ugly. To a degree, a good personality will overcome the ugly, working on your fashion sense can also overcome it. Find a haircut that really suits you well, figure out some facial hair that suits if any.

Money, obviously go out there and get some money. If you're spending all you earn, figure out what you can cut back on. If theres nothing, find another job that pays better or get a second job.

[Anonymous No.11083914]

>>11074620
A good bartender is a profession worthy of not deriding. If you mix me a drink I order without fucking it up, that's worth the 20% minimum tip it took to learn the skill. If you can keep me served, while not overserving the guy that will fight me after his 9th Long Island, I will appreciate you immensely.

[Bartender No.11083965]

>>11083689
A high volume craft cocktail bar / restaurant.

The servers are shit and don't know what anything is and I hate having to explain it to them at service bar. I wish management would test them on cocktail knowledge like do the menu. Fucking pisses me off. Just got home btw. Drinking some 1792 bourbon to the face.

[Bartender No.11083971]

>>11083729
Yo. The bar I work at...
Here's a little hint. We have a Suntory Toki Highball machine. There aren't many of those in the states...
>pic unrelated. My personal collection.

[Anonymous No.11083979]

>>11083887
having a job where you're active and engaged is incredible
I got a degree in math and worked accounting for a while now I'm an electrician
I make probably 10k less than I would be making but I no longer dread waking up

[Anonymous No.11083993]

>>11083979
Off topic but yeah, I used to be a biochem researcher. That was cool but working in a fuckin lab all day waiting around for your experiments to finish got pretty old. Now I work at a coal/nat gas power plant lol

[Anonymous No.11083994]

>>11083971
Holy shit.

Is that your retirement fund?

[Bartender No.11084009]

>>11083994
Nah m8, I leave all of this at my parents place far away from me because if its at my house, it will be consumed by anyone. No way I could leave my precious shit at the bar.

[Anonymous No.11084011]

>>11082408
damn dude that (you) is way too edgy for a food and cooking board
u ok ?

[Anonymous No.11084017]

>>11083971
post time stamp u fuker

[Anonymous No.11084048]

>>11074620
Similar to how I think of servers. 90% of the time you are fine. But then you fucks come and fuck up my area and steal my damn knives. Paring knives do not go to the front of the house, nor do they go to dish. They stay back in prep. If you're "keeping them safe" because the servers are being retarded, then keep them safe by bringing them back. Believe it or not, they're useful for more than cutting lemons/limes.

If you can't tell, I work at a restaurant with a bar.

[Anonymous No.11084136]

>>11084048
A restaurant with a bar must be hard. My bar doesn't prepare food, we're just friendly with the restaurant next door. If someone in our bar wants fried chicken we call it into the place next door and 5min later one of their staff'll come in asking for the guy.
We get them extra food orders, they send us people who want to get drunk. It's win-win.

[Anonymous No.11084141]

>>11074620
Almost always faggots. I don't respect them very much.

[Anonymous No.11084189]

>>11084136
>must be hard
No clue how it is from the bar-side, all I know is that some of them like to take my knives and leave messes behind. It's pretty damn annoying when I want a paring knife but all of mine are gone because bar/servers took them for one reason or another and never returned them. Cleaning their messes/hunting down paring knives wastes time I could use to get prep done.

[Anonymous No.11084268]

I think I left this thread with a less positive opinion of bartenders than I came in with. But then again it's 'bartender' + 'uses 4chan' so probably getting a specific demographic.

[Anonymous No.11084281]

>>11084268
Literally designed to be a bitching thread about bartenders. To expect anything but memes and bad experiences to be shared is idiotic.

[Anonymous No.11084346]

>>11084189
i say have a chat to em. a bartender shouldn't need a knife to cut anything. if he runs out of lime/lemon slices someone in the kitchen should be on that, i'd wager.

[Bartender No.11084370]

>>11084048
>useful for cutting lemons or limes
Yeah, no shit, kitchen fag. I bring my own knives for prep work. I don't want kitchen shits stealing my high end shit. Sorry you have to deal with that shit, but I call kitchen people out on the daily for stealing bar related items. Fucking spics.
>>11084189
Is your staff retarded and they don't know what kind of knife they have? Holy shit. That must be annoying. I label everything bar-related "BAR" the daft cunts get the fucking point.
>>11084268
Hey man, I'd love to make you a Negroni. Although, not what you would expect. I could write a dissertation on the Negroni cocktail.

[Anonymous No.11084400]

>>11074631
I am a bartender, and I do not have any tattoos.

Also larpers ITT who think they're craftier than they are

[Bartender No.11084448]

>>11084400
Dubs.
Based.
Greg.

[Anonymous No.11084452]

>>11084346
Usually servers slice up the limes/lemons. That said, when it got real busy some of the bartenders will steal a knife so they can slice lemons/limes on the fly behind the bar. On the bright side they haven't done this for the past 3-4 months. Was really terrible when I started but they eventually started stocking more slices and bringing back any knives they used. Currently servers are the only ones who still steal my knives, but they've been doing that less often too. Mostly the occasional new person.

>>11084370
>Yeah, no shit, kitchen fag.
Read again bar fag, I was pointing out that I also use paring knives. We don't have them exclusively for the use of bar/servers. Also, knives are not supposed to go to front of house where I work. Period. Since the bar is in the FOH, they shouldn't be taking the knives to cut lemons/limes on the fly.

>stealing bar related shit
I'm honestly curious what you have that they would want to steal. I really can't think of a single thing that our bar has that would be even vaguely useful to me (at least, since we got our own blender).

>staff retarded
Often they (mostly servers) are. They know what knife they have and who it belongs to. They also like to use, and then keep, my paring knives because they "might" have to use it again. That or they think it goes to dish, despite being repeatedly told that the kitchen knives NEVER go to dish. Bartenders have been better about this than the servers in recent months. But most of our bartenders have also been around longer.

Yes, I am a complete autist about having all of my shit in my area, it being organized, and relatively clean while working in it.

[Anonymous No.11084624]

>>11084452
Not him but I worked bar in a Chinese restaurant with a kitchen staffed by real, scary looking jackie chans and had the only knife that wasn't a goddamn cleaver. All the other gweilo servers would fight over that shit for prep.

[Anonymous No.11084663]

I'd unironically prefer a hunchbacked guy from Scotland over a tattooed girl as a bartender.

[Anonymous No.11084673]

>>11074620
Show feminine penis

[Anonymous No.11084739]

>>11082434
Now imagine all the dirty fucks that don't rinse it out after they're done pouring their drink. Enjoy having the taste of Fireball in your Single malt Scotch.

[Anonymous No.11085831]

>>11078093
You seen that anime Bartender?

Is it like that for you?

[Anonymous No.11085862]

The most overpaid people in the universe.

[Bartender No.11086776]

>>11085862
>overpaid
I technically make $2.50 and hour. So sure. Its a societal standard I get paid by.

[Anonymous No.11086790]

>>11078093
Sounds like you just went to shitty dives or sports bars desu. Or maybe you just weren't in the right cities.

[Anonymous No.11087421]

>>11078114
a large majority of sit-down restaurants also have a bar. there's no way in hell that could be managed by two people.

[Anonymous No.11087748]

>>11084400
I dont think I'm crafty at all. It's a low-paying job with the pay-offs being you get drunk for free and get to hang out at a bar (ie: chat to friends/people and hang out). The job itself is literally pouring beer into a glass, giving them their change back and doing the dishes occasionally.

[Anonymous No.11087761]

>>11087421
>going to a sit-down restaurant when you want to drink at a bar/pub

[Anonymous No.11087766]

>>11074620
I'm in love with a bartender
So I guess I kinda have to say I at least like bartenders

[Anonymous No.11087814]

>>11074650
>older unmarried and/or poor women are terrible
real insightful

[Anonymous No.11087837]

>>11087766
take a lap and re-evaluate your life, retard