Skip the blender, get the slushy mixers
― calstars, Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
FRIENDS: Ooh this place has a frozen daiquiri machine!ME: Don't do it. Don't do it. There is a zero percent chance it will be any good.FRIENDS: <order frozen daiquiris anyway>Ten minutes pass...FRIENDS: We should have listened.
But on the topic of blenders, stand-up (spindle) blenders are totally legit pieces of equipment for flash blending: https://punchdrink.com/articles/flash-blend-way-better-frothy-drink/
― ernestp, Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
ooh, interesting, thanks ernestp
I want to be able to make frozen drinks, but I don't want to be roped into making only frozen drinks. Maybe I could treat it like the H&F Cheeseburger, ring the bell once a night and the first four customers who claim it can get one.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
i was going to suggest doing it once a week as a special on a manageable night.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Sell 'em by the batch/carafe...?
I rarely make frozen drinks but I sometimes pull out this recipe for a frozen banana daiquiri - just blend everything together (I use one of those small Magic Bullet-style blenders):1.5 oz rum0.5 oz Grand Marnier1 bananajuice from one lime1 tsp sugarhandful of ice
― ernestp, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
Wednesday was so, so bad. We were at 110% capacity near as I could tell, with only me at the bar and everyone wanting drinks that took a while to build – margaritas, Sazeracs, sours – rather than just highballs or beers. I will start looking for an escape route from the job before going through too many more of those. So last night, a night off, I went to the bar and just sat and had a beer so I could experience the place without hating it or feeling like my hair was on fire.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
WmC, where are you bartending that the bar gets at capacity during a pandemic?
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
Northeast Mississippi, where pandemic precautions are something we strongly consider and then totally ignore.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
damn dude. hope yer double-masking it and that we all get outta this hellscape soon.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
Had a covid denier in last night, a trucker who's stuck in town for a couple of days while he waits for tie-down equipment to be delivered by other truckers (who are in the middle of their mandated 34-hour reset in Knoxville). Anyway, he was nice enough but completely convinced that covid is a hoax -- the medical community is using it as a massive cash grab. "Lung cancer? Call it covid and get real paid. Pneumonia? Call it covid and get real paid." etc. I was pretend-smiling and shooting eye-lasers at him and said "Ohhh, I should tell my mother about that -- OH WAIT I CAN'T, BECAUSE SHE DIED FROM IT." Didn't faze him a bit, he just kept rambling on. But he did change the subject pretty quickly.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
You have the patience of a saint.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
anybody who pisses off the person who make them drinks is an unintelligent person
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
In all other respects, he was a nice guy, tipped well, which in a way just pissed me off more. They're out there! The pod people! They look just like our friends and neighbors! Don't go to sleep!
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Sunday, 14 March 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
WmC, i only just found this thread and read the whole thing. it's a great read! glad you've stayed healthy--would read a book full of your bar thoughts.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
also i'm so sorry about your mom
would read a book full of your bar thoughts.
same
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
what did you end up doing with the pomelo juice?
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
??? pomelo juice ???
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Monday, 15 March 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
that bitter orange thing?
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Monday, 15 March 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link
I'm still drawing a blank. Something from another thread or Facebook? I did find a jar of grapefruitcello last year that I stuck in the pantry 2 years earlier and forgot.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Monday, 15 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Keep waiting for the other shoe to drop on WmC's trucker:
"Did he... did he mention waiting on trucks in Knoxville? Oh, God. That's the guy who shows up here every February 24. Turns out, it's the anniversary of his dying from typhoid out on Highway 278!"
― pplains, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
"But yes, at least he does tip well."
― pplains, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
lol
He said he lives out of his truck and just has a little storage unit in Missouri for some personal effects, so whenever he finds himself with mandated idle time, he finds a bar/restaurant and just stays there all day long until closing time. He said he's going to remember Amory and be back at our place someday. ("SOMEdayyyyyyy")
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Monday, 15 March 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
I have been bugging the shit out of Kroger's produce people about when rhubarb would arrive, but since I never catch the produce manager it's all "sorry, dunno." Then I remembered I had 3 vacuum sealed packs of it in the freezer. So now I have rhubarb syrup to play with for a while. Gin + rhubarb syrup in almost any formulation is Instant Classic.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
my bartending trick was putting a pint of blueberries in a plastic container, then filling it with gin and letting it sit overnight, then serving like five or six of them in a ramekin as an amuse bouche
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
When I worked for Wetherspooons in my 20s (very much not bartending, but still) I once got called up in front of management because someone had called head office complaining about the Deicide inverted pentagram I'd drawn in the top of their Guinness. Still the most metal thing I've ever done.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
Was that a common practice of yours or were you serving satan?
― calstars, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
I had been practising it a bit. This was Hallowe'en so it seemed OK.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
i agree!
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
xpost Ha.. I once got called in at a winery for writing Black Sabbath in a layer of frost on a fermenting chardonnay tank... "We have tourists coming through here, you know.." etc.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
I thought I’d seen some Andy the grasshopper tags in Oakland
― calstars, Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
there's a whole lotta tags in Oakland
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
Cinco de Mayo is the worst and stupidest thing in the world for a bartender. I went through 4.5 liters of tequila last night in a four-hour shift. I told the owner "you bit off more than I could chew" and I wasn't smiling when I said it. He apologized for not trying harder to get a 2nd bartender for the evening. I woke up from a making-margaritas nightmare at 2:30am and just chewed out my dayjob client. Bad, bad night that will take a few days to recover from.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Thursday, 6 May 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
Cinco de Mayo feels like months ago now.
The other bartender gave notice. I couldn't be sore about it -- she has a new boyfriend a year after an ugly divorce, and coaches both of her boys on their baseball teams, so ditching the bar job was an easy choice. Plus she doesn't drink, has little interest in drinkcraft. I'm doing a bartending training session Tuesday for the new bartender and all the waitstaff. The Imposter Syndrome is kicking in hard for me. How can I go from starting my first bar job to training bartenders in less than a year?
Ingredients-wise, I'm keeping rhubarb syrup available all the time now, and the rhubarb martini is starting to get a solid rep. I developed a riff on the Trinidad Sour (called the Tobago Road) using Amaro di Angostura instead of the bitters, and it might be the drink I'm proudest of. I have an idea for making orgeat using toasted pecans instead of almonds, and sweetening it with a blend of Golden Eagle syrup and dark Karo instead of regular sugar; in theory it'll have the flavors of pecan pie. That + bourbon or dark rum = ?
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Monday, 24 May 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
How can I go from starting my first bar job to training bartenders in less than a year?
because you know yr shit, ask for a raise ;)
― sleeve, Monday, 24 May 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
lol, the owner/GM hasn't deposited his last eight paychecks yet, I should tread carefully there.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Monday, 24 May 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
A couple of weeks ago I dealt with a bunch of early-20somethings who come in regularly for loads of Bud Light and Vegas Bomb shots. This time they were clearly fucking with me when I was trying to take a break, getting a round of pints and then calling for a round of shots as soon as I finished getting those, and then getting another round of pints as soon as I finished the shots. One of them said "get us another round of shots, ok?" and I turned around, told one of the owners "I need a break. I NEED a break." and walked out the back door and sat on the curb in the alley for a few minutes.
So they all came back in this past Saturday and tried to do the same routine. I heard the word "shots" while my back was turned; turned back to them and said "Vegas Bomb shots are for children, drink your beer." So they hoovered up several dozen wings and chicken strips and more beer, and paid up like nice little kids. I guess I passed some toughness test, because the main instigator tipped better than usual.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Monday, 24 May 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
― horseshoe, Sunday, March 14, 2021 4:34 PM (two months ago)
Thank you! Also, it was rude of me not to acknowledge this sooner, I apologize. I do wish I'd kept better notes over the last year.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
How do you guys deal with the music question ? Or is it pre determined my Mgmt
― calstars, Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
Sp0t!fy business acct, owner picks the playlists.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Saturday, 29 May 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6UPb4sO.jpg
I bet Death & Co. never gets straight-up garbage from their citrus suppliers.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
yikes
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Uggghhhhh! I can imagine how nasty that smells
― Jaq, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
barf emoji
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
I inhaled a lot of mold today. Washed and juiced what I could of the limes, washed/dried and moved the lemons out of cardboard -- they weren't in as rough shape, but they smelled worse. On the bright side, one of the new bartenders is doing great and I get two nights off this week.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
I would raise holy hell with whatever company delivered that nonsense (not yr job but still)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
i've heard of scratch and dent sales but that's basically frame damage
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
Lol, I'm having flashbacks. My first job was in the produce dept. of a grocery store and had to sort through stuff like this sometimes.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7:30 PM
The owners sent the pic to their sales rep and I think they got credit for that case. I should have known these cases would be crap -- the previous ones were nearly perfect, 3 limes and zero lemons lost to rot.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
i don't know your bar's receiving set-up WmC, but someone ought to be around to check stuff in and make sure stuff doesn't get delivered like that. like it's kind of critical imo. that is terrible that you had to work with that and it didn't get sent back/replaced (am not dissing you at all, obvs, it's not your bar). It makes me think there must be other things being delivered that are not being done "up to code" as they say. I worked as purchaser/receiver for a few years and i can see how a mistake like this could happen from a reputable distributor. mistakes get made. also, if a company knows nobody is every gonna check their deliveries, *maybe* they might try and pull this shite.
― scampos sacra fames (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link