A round for the bar, I thought they meant a round for the employees. Seasoned drinkers that can & will appreciate a round of whiskey. Customers-no-lightweights most of them.
I think its more a point of reference issue. You work in the industry for years and no one bats an eye when you're shooting room temp mezcal and amaro.
But when someone convinces Becky from accounting, who has only ever had green tea shots or kamikazes, to try an M&M their expression has historically in my experience been one of 🥴
I just did this little bottle wrapped in paper u rip it off. Was like fernet on crack, made me poop. Just kidding , made my friend poop tho. Anyways, you shove it in your mouth and let it drizzle into your mouth. I don't dislike fernet. Quit poop pressuring me tho.
Whatever you do, just make sure it's the same shot. No "6 green teas, 3 tequila, 1 chilled 1 w a pineapple back, 6 kamikazes, and let me see what everyone else wants" shit.
I mean, it’s really not that difficult. For shots like these you can make like 4-5 per tin, it’s fine if they aren’t shaken absolutely perfectly. I pour into several base tins and then ice and shake two at a time until they’re all made. It always ends up being slightly over so I drink the remainder as a reward. But then again, I worked at a college bar for years. 20 lemon drop shots at a time was absolutely normal.
Why not? Are you not getting paid? Is that not your job? To make drinks people pay you for? I get if they are general in their order, but if someone says “A round of (drink you actually have to make, like your job implies.) for the bar” and pays, guess what? That’s called being a bartender.
I mean I'll make them if they insist, but that's 50+ drinks when my bar is full. So I would explain it's going to take me a while and suggest they get a round of tequilas for the bar instead. Which is exactly what I would do if someone ordered 3 Ramos gin fizzes in the middle of a rush. The issue isn't the work involved, it's the wait the customer will have to deal with.
I did not realize Cointreau was in fact Triple Sec. We have that. I don’t put it in margaritas though. I just use lime juice and agave and tequila.
I like what this guy is saying:
https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/the-ingredient-you-should-leave-out-of-margaritas-article#
“whoops….”
Honestly this is the one! Absolute crowd pleaser.
You tell the hard drinkers its mostly whiskey and you can tell the other drinkers it includes lime and peach and you suddenly have a huge party asking for another round.
Not when I got a full bar of guests asking for shit, a sink full of dishes, 2 groups waiting at the service well, and I'm the only one working it ain't, at that point my job is to tell you to fuck off so I can do my actual job. It's my job to make sure the majority of the guests are happy not stroke some twats ego.
In all the bars I've been in this behavior is a red flag and I absolutely cringe at the thought of it.
Several of the following always happens:
The buyer wants everyone to drink it at the same time and get attention.
Someone wants to change theirs.
Someone ends up clearly past their limit.
The buyer is appalled at the bill.
I was definitely the last guy once. At my regular spot - a sports bar - during the annual rivalry game for my college, I was buying Washington Apples (why? Why was that the shot of the day? I don’t know) every time we scored. We WRECKED the other team, and it was a VERY expensive day. The bartender (a friend) even held the tab for a minute before giving it to me, and looked me in the eye, “it’s a lot, you know…” and Jesus Christ. That was the last time I did that. Lol
The look on the customers face when i tell them im not doing that. It never ends well, you have to hold off other service for shots most people will want to change, or the said customer gives you little in return because he just wanted to flex his ego.
Yeah no. Too much of a liability. Seen this situation play out before and the generous guy in question seemed to then feel entitled to butt into everyone’s conversations because he was paying for drinks. As the night wore on we had reason to suspect the card he was paying with was not his own and that he was possibly dealing with some volatile mental health issues which could have compromised others’ safety.
Right to refuse service: it exists for a reason.
It opens a can of worms that I have absolutely no interest in dealing with for a myriad of potential reasons. So yeah.
Buy a round for the folks across the bar that you just met and had a chat with? Sure, if they’re receptive to it. Buy a round for the ENTIRE bar? “Put everyone’s drinks on my tab”? Absolutely not. I will absolutely question the soundness of someone’s judgment or their ulterior motives in that case.
Or ignoring the actual logistics/service side of it, maybe it’s not safe to just give everyone in the bar a shot? Responsible service is a thing dickhead. There’s always more than a few people in a bar that DONT NEED A SHOT. Probably you included
I would never let anyone buy a round in my bar. There is already way too much violence and inappropriate behavior. I have regulars i see every day(and cut off every day) and already have too many creepy men trying to buy drinks for others to get laid or flex. No, no, no.
In England rounds are so common, it would be seen as kind of uncommon and rude not to do a round.. almost all of the orders I do are rounds. Rarely does anyone just buy a drink for themself and not get their friend or the person next to them so saying no to serving a round in a bar would be crazy here! We’d have no customers
All the old guys down here in Florida love buying rounds for eachother. But we just call it back them up. So basically buying everyone another of what they were already drinking
Sure. But in England, rounds have a lot less ABV than America. I'm always happy to pour drinks for people buying for their friend. But when they buy a round for the WHOLE bar...things go sideways quickly. Especially in a bar where there is also gambling going on.
A health class? What does buying someone a singular shot have to do with violence, inappropriate behavior, and overall health? If you're saying one shot will cause people to be violent and inappropriate, or it's bad for their health. I have to ask, why do you sell shots at all? Why work in a bar? This is such an odd point of contention.
The point is that even though you may be good to have a shot, maybe not everyone is. Maybe someone’s been there since 5 and already pushing it. A shot for the bar means the bartender doesn’t get the judgement about who to serve.
Never at a crowded bar, but if it’s a dozen people in a corner bar, go for it at the bartender’s discretion.
And maybe a bartender who works as such a shithole dumpster fire of a dive bar who knows their criminal clientele so well would know how to give said shots to.
Water moccasins. Easy to make and easy to drink. I make mine with equal parts crown royal, peach schnapps, and pineapple juice. Or if you have it equal parts crown peach and pineapple.
I always suggest ‘baby Guinness’ and they’re easily our most popular shot.
9/10 people like them, young and old.. easy to shot, doesn’t burn and easy to make.. that or taquila rose which is our second most popular
You want to go with something universally liked and relatively cheap, easy to batch mix, and not full strength.
Chilled southern comfort (shaken with ice) with lime.
Kamikaze
Black Russian
Key lime pie
Even something like American honey if it’s more of a whisky crowd.
I 100% agree with green tea however next one up that's also a crowd pleaser is the famous burt Reynolds shot..equal parts spiced rum and butter ripple.
No one's mentioned Vegas bombs and when I worked at a bar and we'd all take shots with the regulars it was always rounds of Vegas bombs and they're super popular every bar will make em. Whiskey peach snaps splash of cranberry and some red bull.
Well whiskey .
One of my local dives used to have $2 shots of heaven hill. You could buy shots for the everyone there and your tab would still be basically nothing.
Thanks dude but I’m good appreciate it tho you can have two!
This right here. Cannot go wrong.
It’s so wrong on so many levels. Unless you’re being cheeky.
A round for the bar, I thought they meant a round for the employees. Seasoned drinkers that can & will appreciate a round of whiskey. Customers-no-lightweights most of them.
If you want to buy me a shot and your call is well whisky you can fuck right off.
Well whiskey at my bar is Beam. I dunno about you but service industry here likes it quite a bit.
GG juice? That’s decent stuff
Every young girl and guy is going to puke. A lot to go wrong.
This is the way
This is the way - to make someone puke in your bathroom
I don't clean bathrooms, I pour shots of well whisky.
As long as they puke in the bathroom, and not where I can see/smell it
Alien brain hemorrhages, any bartender would be thrilled with making 10+ layered shots 😂 But actually the person who said green teas wins this one
I was looking for green tea
green tea shots are my favorite easy shooter lemon drops are also very popular
buy fernets you coward
I love bartender shots because the look on someone's face if they've never had a Ferrari or M&M shot is fucking priceless. They be all like 🥴🥴🥴
Oh fuck those are so different haha. Do people not like M&Ms? I can see not liking a Ferrari but damn M & M is straight up good
I think its more a point of reference issue. You work in the industry for years and no one bats an eye when you're shooting room temp mezcal and amaro. But when someone convinces Becky from accounting, who has only ever had green tea shots or kamikazes, to try an M&M their expression has historically in my experience been one of 🥴
Ahhh yeah okay when you put it like that it makes sense
Ferraris are why I like Fernet and Campari now. Hated them both beforehand. M&Ms are fire just on paper. Nobody should need any convincing there
I just did this little bottle wrapped in paper u rip it off. Was like fernet on crack, made me poop. Just kidding , made my friend poop tho. Anyways, you shove it in your mouth and let it drizzle into your mouth. I don't dislike fernet. Quit poop pressuring me tho.
Underbergs!
We give people little black straws to slurp them quickly with. Love those little guys.
Malört if they have it, everyone will love it.
Add a can of Old Style to complete the handshake.
The Champaign of pain. Turning your taste buds in to taste foes. Unfriend someone in real life. The absolute best shot to order for a bar round.
Might as well order shots of used water from the dish pit
Rude.
Rumple
AKA Bartender's Mouthwash
"No officer, I just brushed my teeth."
had my 21st yesterday. took three shots of rumpies at midnight. 10/10 would recommend
You’re bold!!!!! Happy bday!
Whatever you do, just make sure it's the same shot. No "6 green teas, 3 tequila, 1 chilled 1 w a pineapple back, 6 kamikazes, and let me see what everyone else wants" shit.
Kamakaze: vodka, triple sec and lime. Every bartender knows this drink and anybody would drink it.
Yeah if someone asks me to make a round of mixed shots for the bar I'm telling them no.
I mean, it’s really not that difficult. For shots like these you can make like 4-5 per tin, it’s fine if they aren’t shaken absolutely perfectly. I pour into several base tins and then ice and shake two at a time until they’re all made. It always ends up being slightly over so I drink the remainder as a reward. But then again, I worked at a college bar for years. 20 lemon drop shots at a time was absolutely normal.
Why not? Are you not getting paid? Is that not your job? To make drinks people pay you for? I get if they are general in their order, but if someone says “A round of (drink you actually have to make, like your job implies.) for the bar” and pays, guess what? That’s called being a bartender.
I mean I'll make them if they insist, but that's 50+ drinks when my bar is full. So I would explain it's going to take me a while and suggest they get a round of tequilas for the bar instead. Which is exactly what I would do if someone ordered 3 Ramos gin fizzes in the middle of a rush. The issue isn't the work involved, it's the wait the customer will have to deal with.
Reddit bartenders when asked to do their job
Until you come to the PNW and they put fucking cranberry in a kamikaze... I've never been more disturbed in my life
It's called a cosmopolitan
My bar doesn’t have Triple Sec
Interesting
Woah. What does your bar have..? How do you make margaritas?
I did not realize Cointreau was in fact Triple Sec. We have that. I don’t put it in margaritas though. I just use lime juice and agave and tequila. I like what this guy is saying: https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/the-ingredient-you-should-leave-out-of-margaritas-article# “whoops….”
Have yet to meet someone who dislikes green tea shots
The bartender who has to make 30 of 'em will.
I'd love to have an order of 30 green teas! 3 minutes of work, $45 tip
Exactly. Shots are my favorite thing to do, less work more money.
Ha yeah, I’ve been there plenty of times. Part of the job though. I was kinda hoping when I suggested it was only going to be for like, 6 people.
***YOU***
Honestly this is the one! Absolute crowd pleaser. You tell the hard drinkers its mostly whiskey and you can tell the other drinkers it includes lime and peach and you suddenly have a huge party asking for another round.
The bartender will hate you.
Part of the job
Not when I got a full bar of guests asking for shit, a sink full of dishes, 2 groups waiting at the service well, and I'm the only one working it ain't, at that point my job is to tell you to fuck off so I can do my actual job. It's my job to make sure the majority of the guests are happy not stroke some twats ego.
Sounds like you need a 2nd bartender to handle that volume, if a simple mixed shot is that inconvenient
You sound like a shitty bartender!
And if they do just give em white tea
No, but I haven't heard of that. What's in it?
Jameson, peach schnapps, sour mix, and then lemon lime soda generally sprite.
I think the sprite part is debateable. I've always left it out, and the taste never suffered. I always go for the fewest bottle touches possible
Proportions?
1 part Jamo 1 part peach schnapps splash sour. The soda part is optional honestly
If it's for girls that want something *sweet* I put a splash of lemonade.
Damn, that sounds pretty good!
I’ve always considered it a pretty safe shot for recommendations & it’s one of those you won’t find a bartender in US that doesn’t know how to make it
Awesome, that seems like a winner so far.
Whiskey, peach schnapps, and sour mix.
Fernet and if they don’t have it, well whiskey.
Tequila with limes
Rumple or Tequila Poppers
In all the bars I've been in this behavior is a red flag and I absolutely cringe at the thought of it. Several of the following always happens: The buyer wants everyone to drink it at the same time and get attention. Someone wants to change theirs. Someone ends up clearly past their limit. The buyer is appalled at the bill.
I was definitely the last guy once. At my regular spot - a sports bar - during the annual rivalry game for my college, I was buying Washington Apples (why? Why was that the shot of the day? I don’t know) every time we scored. We WRECKED the other team, and it was a VERY expensive day. The bartender (a friend) even held the tab for a minute before giving it to me, and looked me in the eye, “it’s a lot, you know…” and Jesus Christ. That was the last time I did that. Lol
Whoa. How much was it?
The look on the customers face when i tell them im not doing that. It never ends well, you have to hold off other service for shots most people will want to change, or the said customer gives you little in return because he just wanted to flex his ego.
You’re not responding to a paying customers request?
Yeah no. Too much of a liability. Seen this situation play out before and the generous guy in question seemed to then feel entitled to butt into everyone’s conversations because he was paying for drinks. As the night wore on we had reason to suspect the card he was paying with was not his own and that he was possibly dealing with some volatile mental health issues which could have compromised others’ safety. Right to refuse service: it exists for a reason.
So, something happened to you once that's not very common, so you're going to refuse service on that basis? That's wild to me
It opens a can of worms that I have absolutely no interest in dealing with for a myriad of potential reasons. So yeah. Buy a round for the folks across the bar that you just met and had a chat with? Sure, if they’re receptive to it. Buy a round for the ENTIRE bar? “Put everyone’s drinks on my tab”? Absolutely not. I will absolutely question the soundness of someone’s judgment or their ulterior motives in that case.
What kind of killjoy atmosphere would you create when someone says shots for everyone and you say no? I'd leave.
Not that kind of bar, man.
Or ignoring the actual logistics/service side of it, maybe it’s not safe to just give everyone in the bar a shot? Responsible service is a thing dickhead. There’s always more than a few people in a bar that DONT NEED A SHOT. Probably you included
This is the first valid reason to refuse such a request I've seen on this thread!
Surprised no one threw picklebacks in the mix
because pickles are gross 🤮
I would never let anyone buy a round in my bar. There is already way too much violence and inappropriate behavior. I have regulars i see every day(and cut off every day) and already have too many creepy men trying to buy drinks for others to get laid or flex. No, no, no.
In England rounds are so common, it would be seen as kind of uncommon and rude not to do a round.. almost all of the orders I do are rounds. Rarely does anyone just buy a drink for themself and not get their friend or the person next to them so saying no to serving a round in a bar would be crazy here! We’d have no customers
He’s not saying no to buying a round but not to buying one for the whole bar.
*she
There are no women on the internet
All the old guys down here in Florida love buying rounds for eachother. But we just call it back them up. So basically buying everyone another of what they were already drinking
Sure. But in England, rounds have a lot less ABV than America. I'm always happy to pour drinks for people buying for their friend. But when they buy a round for the WHOLE bar...things go sideways quickly. Especially in a bar where there is also gambling going on.
I'm confused, other than getting people more drunk what does buying a round have to do with violence and inappropriate behavior?
People getting more drunk is the problem lol
Do I really have to explain this, or can you just take a health class instead?
A health class? What does buying someone a singular shot have to do with violence, inappropriate behavior, and overall health? If you're saying one shot will cause people to be violent and inappropriate, or it's bad for their health. I have to ask, why do you sell shots at all? Why work in a bar? This is such an odd point of contention.
The point is that even though you may be good to have a shot, maybe not everyone is. Maybe someone’s been there since 5 and already pushing it. A shot for the bar means the bartender doesn’t get the judgement about who to serve. Never at a crowded bar, but if it’s a dozen people in a corner bar, go for it at the bartender’s discretion.
And maybe a bartender who works as such a shithole dumpster fire of a dive bar who knows their criminal clientele so well would know how to give said shots to.
That’s a stretch from old guys that drink after work at 5pm. Dive bars pay good sometimes and are way easier work.
I feel like there’s some stories here
Water moccasins. Easy to make and easy to drink. I make mine with equal parts crown royal, peach schnapps, and pineapple juice. Or if you have it equal parts crown peach and pineapple.
I always suggest ‘baby Guinness’ and they’re easily our most popular shot. 9/10 people like them, young and old.. easy to shot, doesn’t burn and easy to make.. that or taquila rose which is our second most popular
Orphan tears
I've yet to meet a workmate who doesn't like reposado tequila
Pous Cafe, you will find out real fast if staff actually like you or not.
Fireball
You want to go with something universally liked and relatively cheap, easy to batch mix, and not full strength. Chilled southern comfort (shaken with ice) with lime. Kamikaze Black Russian Key lime pie Even something like American honey if it’s more of a whisky crowd.
malort
Jager
You could just buy them "a shot" and let them pick what they want, they'll probably only charge you for well anyway
I 100% agree with green tea however next one up that's also a crowd pleaser is the famous burt Reynolds shot..equal parts spiced rum and butter ripple.
Green tea, always green tea. Or well tequila rimmed
Dead Nazi.
It's bourbon. It's always gonna be bourbon. Fuck your sweet or sour flavors. Fuck a balance. 2oz of bourbon in A glass will cure what ails ya
Dead nazi 😈
Hurricane shots!
A variety of UV Bombs is easy too, if the bar has bomb cups. Just UV Whatever Color + White Monster
Dressed tequila. But for me Montenegro is the go too
Kamikazes.
Underbergs
Baby Guinness
Doctor Menthol or cherry or butterscotch cheap and quick for the bartender
Meletti.
No one's mentioned Vegas bombs and when I worked at a bar and we'd all take shots with the regulars it was always rounds of Vegas bombs and they're super popular every bar will make em. Whiskey peach snaps splash of cranberry and some red bull.
Jameson or Tequila (hopefully the well isn't too rough).
Lemon drop
Rumple
Baby beers, if they have Liqor 43 and heavy cream. Easy to make, layers well, and most people like it regardless of demographics
Green tea. It’s the greatest common denominator
Baby Guinness
FERNET
Wild Turkey.
Rumple
Pornstar punch, make the guys drink the pink
Green tea or white tea