The Definition of Bartender
bahr-ten-der Person who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar. – Dictionary.com This doesn’t even come close. While Dictionary.com list this as an Americanism, from around 1830-40, Bartender, at least in the UK, tends to be the definition between the...
Christmas Special – How would you like it?
This article was submitted by a successful nightclub manager, all about the delights of working in the late night trade and how it would seem in any other scenario. If we treated your job the way you treat ours… This year is my 11th Christmas working in bars....
Flair Bartending and its image in society.
For the flair bartenders out there, I’d love to know what reaction you guys get when you tell people you meet what you do for a living. What do the public think of flair bartending, what do they think of us, and are those reactions positive or is it something we...
Why the UK Needs the Same Tipping Culture as America.
In the USA, it is very much the norm to tip your bartender each time you order a drink, or if you run a tab to tip a decent percentage when you cash out your bill. In the UK however its quite the opposite, and while the UK has some of the most skilled bartenders in...
