How to Be a Crappy Bartender

The big key is ignoring your customers
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 2, 2010 10:35 PM CST
How to Be a Crappy Bartender
You'll usually find the crappiest bartenders at the farthest point away from you at the bar.   (Wikimedia Commons)

Having woken up with a burr under his saddle (if not also perhaps a hangover) after a bad night at the bar, Derek Brown brings some tips on how to be bad bartender:

  • No need to give customers what they really want. “Nothing says first class like treating the customer second class,” Brown writes for the Atlantic.
  • All customers really want is to get drunk. “People don’t enjoy the taste of alcohol and don’t care about a well-made drink. They’re out to get sloshed.”

  • Your time is much better spent chatting with co-workers. “You’re an actor, musician, or struggling artist. Getting drinks is beneath you. You work hard and you’ve earned a break. Lean like you mean it.”
  • Measured, shaken, stirred, swizzled? Nah, none of the above. “Just put it in the glass and give the customer a stirrer while mindlessly parroting ‘Enjoy,’ or, better yet, say nothing.”
(More bartender stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X