So Your Bar is on Twitter… I’ve been running bars for eight years now and I’ve only very recently discovered how good Twitter is for business. It took me a [ … ]
Category: Rants
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Mystery Guest Myth.
The Mystery Customer is the absolute most pointless exercise in the modern bar and restaurant industry. Having a checklist of being greeted in a specific number of seconds, being offered [ … ]