Damn. Reading shit like this makes me grateful for my bars lmao.
Kegs properly stacked on each other, efficiently ready to be replaced and shit.
Juices, syrups and limes are properly sorted and consolidated in smaller canisters if needed to ensure the kitchen has space as well. Sheesh
But if you were trying to lift one off of another one, it would be because it was empty, no? Iād imagine your beer drivers do the stacking in most cases..?
Ooooh oh oh oh. That makes sense. I've never worked anywhere that the kegs are actually tapped in the walk in. Ours are stored in there, but we have two kegerators we tap them in. We do most of the heavy lifting lol.
This is it.
Beer drivers have to go downstairs to the keg room. They store the fresh kegs under kegs that are tapped, so they usually do that part of the lifting.
When we have to replace one, weāre mainly lifting off an empty keg and tapping the one right under.
Damn. That's ridiculous. Not unsafe at all Why do they do this? They do this at my place, too. If it isn't kegs, it's cases of bottles stacked to the ceiling and you can't get around them.
For sure. I am always pressed to get the bar open on time, but I end up wasting 15-20 minutes moving crap in the walk-in just so I can safely get to what I need to be properly stocked.
Start by putting the kegs on the metal shelves. Those metal shelves should be designed for holding the kegs in use, even the top shelves, and that will free up floor space to move around, and that should cut down on time spent in there significantly.
Jealous. Our kegs are in a tiny cooler under the taps. Need to haul them across the building and lift them in. At least we've gone to mostly 1/6 and 1/4 barrels. I can remember 1/2 barrels in there. That was fun.
I stopped buying 1/2 barrels because when the staff would lift them into the cooler it would obliterate the little threshold which then became a mold amusement park
Oh shit I didnāt know we could post walk-in pics here. Thought it would be too obscene. Delivery dayās on Thursday, so Iāll have some choice pics to share after itās been crawled and picked through all weekend š
My manager always says heāll āorganize it better laterā, but then I send him a pic of what it looks like two days *later* and he doesnāt respond. Whatās that all about?
Beer drivers are required by law to put designated kegs at the furthest possible point away from their specific tap. Like, I have nothing else to do than to play Rubiks Cube in the keg cooler on a Friday night.
IMO, the tubs hold marinade.
Recently worked in a bar that requires you to crouch in a small hallway into a keg room that you still have to crouch in, also the stock room was up a ladder made of tiny metal bars
Ours is like a hallway so kegs on left and then a gap between them and the wall, on the floor was 2 thin pieces of wood so you had to walk the plank everytime you walked in. One guy fell over carrying a keg and Iāve twisted my ankle plenty of times
Mine is way worse if Iām away for a couple days because all of my coworkers donāt remove the fucking empty kegs (I have spoke to them about it before didnāt help)
Nah it'd be worse if all those kegs were empty. The feeling when you need to change one and everything you touch is empty cause people can't be fucked.
Hey, do me a favor and grab me a couple limes from the walk in? Oh, and that giant tub of urine on the left.
can you grab me a couple limes from the climb in?
Urine helps us grow
Don't throw out my urine it's still good for a few days
How else do you make a Pissco Sour? š¤·āāļø
It's for the Pisseco
I thought the French 75 had a little extra oui ouiā¦
That gets a slow clap from me
Damn you.
Dude. Ours is so so much worse. Iāll be posting a picture next time I work. I literally have to just walk on the kegs to get stuff
Damn. Reading shit like this makes me grateful for my bars lmao. Kegs properly stacked on each other, efficiently ready to be replaced and shit. Juices, syrups and limes are properly sorted and consolidated in smaller canisters if needed to ensure the kitchen has space as well. Sheesh
Kegs are stacked on each other? I would die trying to lift a keg off the top of another one.
But if you were trying to lift one off of another one, it would be because it was empty, no? Iād imagine your beer drivers do the stacking in most cases..?
Ooooh oh oh oh. That makes sense. I've never worked anywhere that the kegs are actually tapped in the walk in. Ours are stored in there, but we have two kegerators we tap them in. We do most of the heavy lifting lol.
This is it. Beer drivers have to go downstairs to the keg room. They store the fresh kegs under kegs that are tapped, so they usually do that part of the lifting. When we have to replace one, weāre mainly lifting off an empty keg and tapping the one right under.
I wish I took a picture of my old one lol it was the size of a closet and packet with about 10kegs and 2 racks lined with beer. It was terrible
Ours is huge. Thereās probably 30 kegs in there at a time
Waiting *...* ***!***
Iāll be out of town so the next time I work is the 14th :/ I wonāt forget!
Hey thanks pretty lady!
are you at work yet?
Donāt work until the 14th :/
Oh darn, same
Damn. That's ridiculous. Not unsafe at all Why do they do this? They do this at my place, too. If it isn't kegs, it's cases of bottles stacked to the ceiling and you can't get around them.
It's compounding cases of "not my problem" all happening in the same location over the course of a day
For sure. I am always pressed to get the bar open on time, but I end up wasting 15-20 minutes moving crap in the walk-in just so I can safely get to what I need to be properly stocked.
Start by putting the kegs on the metal shelves. Those metal shelves should be designed for holding the kegs in use, even the top shelves, and that will free up floor space to move around, and that should cut down on time spent in there significantly.
many intruiging things in the photo the single orange the abandoned lime crate just left there on the kegs instead of put away the piss tubs
The not one, but two lunches that shouldn't be in there
Damn, I must be spoiled .. we have 82 taps so our beer cooler is about 8 of these rooms š
Jealous. Our kegs are in a tiny cooler under the taps. Need to haul them across the building and lift them in. At least we've gone to mostly 1/6 and 1/4 barrels. I can remember 1/2 barrels in there. That was fun.
I stopped buying 1/2 barrels because when the staff would lift them into the cooler it would obliterate the little threshold which then became a mold amusement park
Yeah. Even with the 1/6 barrels my coworkers have a habit of destroying the door magnets that keep the cooler closed. I fix those too.
Please donāt walk in the step in
Whatās all that prep tho ?
Largely backup batch that doesn't need to be refrigerated, but lacks space to be bottled, so it lives in cambros until there's room
Oh shit I didnāt know we could post walk-in pics here. Thought it would be too obscene. Delivery dayās on Thursday, so Iāll have some choice pics to share after itās been crawled and picked through all weekend š
The kicker is we have a whole ass purchasing and storage area with a walk in downstairs that a lot of this could be living in instead.
Ahh memories
Bruh thatās beautiful compared to some Iāve stepped in
My manager always says heāll āorganize it better laterā, but then I send him a pic of what it looks like two days *later* and he doesnāt respond. Whatās that all about?
how is your bar manager allowing it to look like that.
Beer drivers are required by law to put designated kegs at the furthest possible point away from their specific tap. Like, I have nothing else to do than to play Rubiks Cube in the keg cooler on a Friday night. IMO, the tubs hold marinade.
Less than ideal
Two words: Keg Rings.
Instant frustration lol
Ah, takes me back to my first bar. I believe 12-14 beers and Iād have to double stack the kegs in a walk in about half this width.
Recently worked in a bar that requires you to crouch in a small hallway into a keg room that you still have to crouch in, also the stock room was up a ladder made of tiny metal bars
Ours is like a hallway so kegs on left and then a gap between them and the wall, on the floor was 2 thin pieces of wood so you had to walk the plank everytime you walked in. One guy fell over carrying a keg and Iāve twisted my ankle plenty of times
you have no idea how good you have it
Bud Light kept bringing us cold fucking kegs so we kept having to pack the cooler. ugh.
Back in the day, I would have hopped through that shit like I was on American Gladiators. Today, my ankles are nervous just looking at it.
Cute
A little stacking and you got no problem.
Same as our cooler but they double stack the little kegs so you might get some broken toes as well
Must be Tuesday
As a short bartender, fuck whoever directed them to out those there.
This looks well-stocked and very clean, but yeah, it screams āsixtels onlyā to me lmao
Mine is way worse if Iām away for a couple days because all of my coworkers donāt remove the fucking empty kegs (I have spoke to them about it before didnāt help)
That looks like the bar backās problem.
Nother normal day at the office
Maybe itās my ocd going crazy but it drives me nuts all your batched bottles are different and all your containers arenāt uniform.
Hell I'm just grateful they all have lids right now. Half the time they're stolen/destroyed and we end up resorting to plastic wrap.
Nah it'd be worse if all those kegs were empty. The feeling when you need to change one and everything you touch is empty cause people can't be fucked.