Anyone here a bartender?

[Bikini Mod]

<---former bar owner and bartender. Luv'd it. It was a blast and I disagree with needing to be hot. It's all about being able to hold a conversation/being witty.

Alcohol cures the uglies but can't make you any smarter.

Me too LOL (Well my parents owned the bar so it was a family business but I tended many years thereafter in other places too.)

My husband has owned clubs, restaurants and hotels. So for the both of us if the bartender sucks, we will not go back to that establishment. You have to be witty, accomodating, charming and EXCELLENT memory. If I patronize your place once, you should remember what I was drinking if you waited on me personally.

Being hot is not remotely mandatory. It doesn't hurt but it is NOT necessary.

I LOVED tending bar, most of the time. Other times I wanted to jump over the bar and slap the shit out of drunk (and many times sober) dickheads.

 

[Spartacus]

works in dive bars. But in clubs, dance clubs, etc. - there's no time to have conversations. plus the music is way too loud to talk to anyone.

plus can't put 'witty conversation' on a resume.

r

that's true and I spent most of my "career" in high volume dance clubs
but you can still have flair and panache

I was faster than the other bartenders as I would add up the drink order in my head while making the drinks and present the drinks with the price on the spot

instead of wasting time to go to the register to ring up the total
and then returning and telling the price

that's valuable time when the bar is covered up
club in cincinnati I worked at would put 2500 through the doors on the weekends
16 bartenders
that's about 150 per bartender
it was nonstop form 9 until closing
they ran a 1 dollar long island tea special from 9 to 10
I'd make a dozen at a time
pouring 4 bottles simultaneously
skipping the tequila
rum,vodka,gin and triple sec

 

[Spartacus]

and be willing to work. then id smile and act nice to EVERYBODY (and hang as much shit on them as possible).

never prejudge the customer
I prided myself on pulling tips out of the kind of people you wouldn't expect to

lesbians though were tight
they pick up the quarters

I'd try to richard simmons them
not even that worked

so fuck it
here's your damn michelob light

 

[needtogetarmy]

I hear college can get you places in life.

an education takes too much time, costs too much money, and it overrated.

Real world experience >> college >> trannys

 

[EZ_E]

I've been bartending on and off since '95. Here in New Jersey, it depends on where you work;

Hot trendy club: hot chick or who do you know....Hell, they take your picture @ most of the open calls

anywhere else: be in the right place @ the right time

the big problem here is that there are about 100 bartenders chasing down every 1 job.

and 4 bottles @ once while making a LIT is child's play.....

 

[Spartacus]

I've been bartending on and off since '95. Here in New Jersey, it depends on where you work;

Hot trendy club: hot chick or who do you know....Hell, they take your picture @ most of the open calls

anywhere else: be in the right place @ the right time

the big problem here is that there are about 100 bartenders chasing down every 1 job.

and 4 bottles @ once while making a LIT is child's play.....

I'll take you on
I won a fastest bartender in cincinnati contest that ran for several weeks

you had to make a
B52
LIT
margarita
martini
bloody mary

the catch was once you picked up a bottle if you set it down you couldn't use it again
so you had to order your pours

how would you do it?

 

[Spartacus]

I used to drink like a fish when I worked
and my drawer would be off 50 cents

those other clowns would have to spend an extra half hour tracking down a missing 20 bucks
I was gone

but I didn't steal
drinking was tolerated
2500 X $5 is 10 grand plus just at the door

the Jewish owners brought in spotters
fired all the bartenders but me and a navy seal guy
offered me the managers job

I was 28

 

[fistfullofsteel]

I used to drink like a fish when I worked
and my drawer would be off 50 cents

those other clowns would have to spend an extra half hour tracking down a missing 20 bucks
I was gone

but I didn't steal
drinking was tolerated
2500 X $5 is 10 grand plus just at the door

the Jewish owners brought in spotters
fired all the bartenders but me and a navy seal guy
offered me the managers job

I was 28

i'm suprised the jew owner didn't fire you for 50 cents

 

[EZ_E]

I'll take you on
I won a fastest bartender in cincinnati contest that ran for several weeks

you had to make a
B52
LIT
margarita
martini
bloody mary

the catch was once you picked up a bottle if you set it down you couldn't use it again
so you had to order your pours

how would you do it?

OK, 2 questions about this:

#1, what kind of martini?
#2, do you have the bloody mix pre-made?

I'd line up 4 glasses with ice, a shaker, chill a martini glass, pour the vodka in the LIT, Bloody, and the shaker, pour the tequila in the marg and the LIT, add the triple sec to the lit and marg, add the rest of the ingredients and mixes, shake, pour, and garnish everything. Then I'd make the B52 and laugh @ the attempt to stump me. (Bailey's, Kahlua, Grand Mar in a pony glass)

Hoo Ahh....

Also, did you work @ the Red Cheetah in Cincinnati?

 

[fistfullofsteel]

OK, 2 questions about this:

#1, what kind of martini?
#2, do you have the bloody mix pre-made?

I'd line up 4 glasses with ice, a shaker, chill a martini glass, pour the vodka in the LIT, Bloody, and the shaker, pour the tequila in the marg and the LIT, add the triple sec to the lit and marg, add the rest of the ingredients and mixes, shake, pour, and garnish everything. Then I'd make the B52 and laugh @ the attempt to stump me. (Bailey's, Kahlua, Grand Mar in a pony glass)

Hoo Ahh....

Also, did you work @ the Red Cheetah in Cincinnati?

that's it!!!!! it's a walk off zoolander style!!!!!!!!! walk the runway while mixing different drinks without spilling anything or messing up your hair and you have to walk a straight line then do a turn and walk back doing the same. it's game time, bitches!!! http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/061020/15711__zoolander_l.jpg and the winner faces AAP for the bartender of 2008.