at the bar 2023

Different price points

Still here fml

*lol

Couple making out at the bar while eating wings with blue cheese vomits

Who walks into a bar on a Sunday at 525 with kids and a stroller

https://i.imgur.com/suqGnuf.jpg

The smallest table

Bartender drinking on the job
Not sure that’s the best idea

Not this early anyway

Starting a campaign of excessive tipping

Bartender refills glass of water w/out asking is solid, imho

Buying a cheaper drink and tipping the bartender more is real class solidarity imo

Greasy looking fellow having an interview for the bar back position, talks the ear off the bartender. “Just so you know, the chances of you becoming a bartender here are slim to none’l

barback has that just woke up at 4 am because it’s an emergency look

Getting change in scotch-taped 10s

I gave them back to pay for the next round

barflies:bartenders::hitters:pitchers

A pickleback and a guinness

barback is a replicant

tipping average over the last few weeks is above 50% drink price

This 1 seems to have no clue what a buy back is after 4 at 50% so I will have to decrease my tipping sorry

I don't get this tipping 50% business. So you've paid the price of six drinks, have been served four drinks, and are hoping for the bartender to graciously serve you a fifth drink?

Right

And your response to that is, I'll show that bartender, I'll pay for another drink and tip them a regular amount

Right

Yeah maybe just buy things that you want and intend to consume

The buyback white whale

“Cheers homie” not a phrase spoken to me much but it is most welcome : )

“Are you alright?” when entering also not often heard, this one a little less welcome

The WiFi went out so the bar is quiet. Wonderful

Adding songs I hear here to my at the bar playlist, which is played at the bar, circular reference warning

I can’t wait to start the 2034 thread

too soon

lol

#lifegoals

The drunk Nihonjin are here again, talking to and hitting on anything that is sentient

Classic or dud: bartenders who offer shots in lieu of buybacks

Depends on the shot I suppose:
something tasty that I've never had before or wouldn't have ordered myself = classic
My choice = oddly transactional but still cool
Something gross like jager= dud
***Bonus points*** if the bartender does a shot with you

When I bartended at a chain restaurant in the 90s, a cocktail waitress once told me a previous bartender there would make a special shot called the "fuck in the forest" for annoying drunks asking for free drinks at the end of the night - he would just dump the bar mats' contents into a shaker with ice and strain them into shot glasses.

Almost time for a new thread lads!

In the meantime I’ll have another porter, please