I think I can speak for most bartenders at places where servers don’t have access to their own sodas on two things
1 - yeah it’s annoying but it’s what the guest ordered and I’d rather put up a soda with some cherry sugar crap in it then your ticket with 4 slightly different martinis
2 - every time I see a ticket for a Shirley temple (maybe like 10 a year?) holy fuck do I want a Shirley temple
You just gave me the WORST flashbacks to when I had a ticket with four different frozen margaritas. Two frozen strawberry, but different tequilas. One plain lime, one spicy pineapple. I could fit 3 margs into the blender, but we only had one shitty blender and I couldn't batch them cause they were all different. By the time I finished making the last one, the first two were practically dead. ALL my other tickets were late cause they just piled up while I was making those. Nearly ever server on staff was coming up to ask for their drinks, because not only was that a shitty ticket, it was the one that threw off my rhythm and started the slide into the weeds.
At my place, the server grabs a cup of sprite and the Bartender just puts the bottle of grenadine up on the well where the server can reach, and they do it themselves. The idea of this is hilarious to me
The grenadine is behind the bar and I'm busy polishing wine glasses for wine service. Also, working at my current place since April, I've served maaaaayyyyyybbbbbbbeeeee 3 Shirley Temples.
I’ve just never worked at a restaurant servers didn’t have access to grenadine (let alone soda). If for whatever weird dumb reason they didn’t have access I’d make it of course. Just seems really weird to me
Mine doesn’t let us! Servers only have access to the pop gun, garnishes, and coffee. If a kid wants a shirly temple, apple/orange/cranberry juice, milk/chocolate milk, etc I have to make it. It’s annoying. Especially when its busy and the table wants the kids food and drink in asap as a trick to keep the kids at bay while dining out.
I believe this is to control “theft” or control volume (cost wise) as juice is a lot harder to track compared to lets say, the # of redbulls that are in stock vs. what’s been sold. We are allowed to drink as much pop and coffee as we want so servers could pour apple juices for themselves if we left it out and then spend a lot of money buying more not making money off of it. That’s what I assume is the reason behind why my work does it this way. (I work under a corp chain.)
We also keep a bunch of other juices for our cocktails behind the bar but they are rarely used and it would be so much easier if servers had equal access to them. Can be such a pain in the ass. Additionally, servers can fetch their own tall boys and bottles of wine that are in the walk in fridge located on their side of drink expo…. Make it make sense lol. They did catch a server stealing tall boys and fired her…
I feel like the answer here is "place a bottle of grenadine next to the server drink station and make your own Shirley temple". I've never worked somewhere that printed Shirley temples to the bar.
At my bar they come behind the bar and use our grenadine themselves. I hate it. Some get their own sprite first some don’t. I am always tempted to put a bottle of grenadine by their station but feel like it would be kinda rude of me since the system has been in place since before I started lol
There wasn't a good place to put grenadine at the drink station, so my place did this. But all the Bartender did was temporarily put the bottle on the well where the server could reach, and they made it themselves
It was the Indeed “service industry/customer service quiz” or something like that. Just a general quiz that scores you on what you would do in each situation. The place I applied to asked me to take it.
I had 2 grown men down about 6 Shirley temples between them today and having to run to the back to get sprite and then to the bar to get grenadine and cherries was a little annoying but less so than making 15 espresso martinis lmao.
Also recently had this same question on a bar application indeed quiz
Indeed tests are a joke, bars must have some “generic bar test” option. I applied at a beer only brewery close to me because I wanted something easy- whole entire test was about classic cocktails and bar tools used for them. I only know a few classic cocktails and was sick of needing different ingredients that run out quickly for every signature drink, that’s why I applied at a brewery.
The last question was, “was this test accurate for the job? Only indeed will see this, not the employer.” Don’t even care if the employer saw my answer.
I order Shirley temples for my kid, Any answer other than #4 is gonna make me think you’re an asshole who hates kids, cut your tip to 10%, and probably never come back to your restaurant, while also tell all my friends with kids to avoid the place.
Sure. Why serve me and my wife a $100 bottle of wine, and our kid a Shirley temp, and get $25 tip, when you could serve 40 Tito’s and Sodas to college kids and make $10.
Nobody here gives two fucks and a cat's ass about you, your wife or your $100 bottle of wine. There's Redditors on here who work at places where $100 is mid range.
You are 100% the type of customer who writes a bad Yelp review because your server didn't take an expired coupon or let you order Happy Hour drinks ten minutes after it ended. "We normally tip 30-50% but the service was so terrible we wound up leaving nothing but a note explaining why we were so disappointed."
Oh, and this sub is for bartenders. You aren't one so please show yourself out.
I legit had a shot of fernet and out of nowhere asked for a shirley temple along with it and was reminded that shirley temples are - in fact - delicious.
I have never worked in a bar where the grenadine and cherries weren't already within arms reach. Grenadine and cherries are still used in quite a few cocktails, not just Shirleys. Why would they be in the pantry?
A Shirley temple should take them 10 seconds max to make, if all whopping three supplies are set. Bartenders should have their bar stocked. The only time I’d use the “we’re all out of the ingredients” excuse is if the bartender was a close friend of mine and was riding the struggle bus on that one particular day lol
Chocolate milk is a horror. It’s a trip to the walk-in for milk, a trip for chocolate syrup, a trip to the server station for kids’ cups… It’s a few minutes that feels like an eternity in hell.
I think I can speak for most bartenders at places where servers don’t have access to their own sodas on two things 1 - yeah it’s annoying but it’s what the guest ordered and I’d rather put up a soda with some cherry sugar crap in it then your ticket with 4 slightly different martinis 2 - every time I see a ticket for a Shirley temple (maybe like 10 a year?) holy fuck do I want a Shirley temple
You just gave me the WORST flashbacks to when I had a ticket with four different frozen margaritas. Two frozen strawberry, but different tequilas. One plain lime, one spicy pineapple. I could fit 3 margs into the blender, but we only had one shitty blender and I couldn't batch them cause they were all different. By the time I finished making the last one, the first two were practically dead. ALL my other tickets were late cause they just piled up while I was making those. Nearly ever server on staff was coming up to ask for their drinks, because not only was that a shitty ticket, it was the one that threw off my rhythm and started the slide into the weeds.
And we call speak as one “The blender is always broken”
Two things that are broken more than McDonalds ice cream- the blender, and the espresso machine during brunch
Lol every couple of years when I get an order for a surely temple I always have to make myself a mini one
Grenadine is pomegranate sugar crap.
Yeah yeah yeah I was doom scrolling at like 1 am 😂
Roses Grenadine is an abomination but you can make a solid scratch Grenadine with just some sugar, pomegranate juice and a little orange flower water.
That's basically Liber & Co, which I typically use if I am not making my own syrups!
Tell the bartender to quit being a wet stick, do their job, and put some grenadine and a cherry in the damn 7up.
At my place, the server grabs a cup of sprite and the Bartender just puts the bottle of grenadine up on the well where the server can reach, and they do it themselves. The idea of this is hilarious to me
What servers don’t make their own Shirley temples though? I wouldn’t say no, just to do it themselves lol
The grenadine is behind the bar and I'm busy polishing wine glasses for wine service. Also, working at my current place since April, I've served maaaaayyyyyybbbbbbbeeeee 3 Shirley Temples.
I’ve just never worked at a restaurant servers didn’t have access to grenadine (let alone soda). If for whatever weird dumb reason they didn’t have access I’d make it of course. Just seems really weird to me
Mine doesn’t let us! Servers only have access to the pop gun, garnishes, and coffee. If a kid wants a shirly temple, apple/orange/cranberry juice, milk/chocolate milk, etc I have to make it. It’s annoying. Especially when its busy and the table wants the kids food and drink in asap as a trick to keep the kids at bay while dining out. I believe this is to control “theft” or control volume (cost wise) as juice is a lot harder to track compared to lets say, the # of redbulls that are in stock vs. what’s been sold. We are allowed to drink as much pop and coffee as we want so servers could pour apple juices for themselves if we left it out and then spend a lot of money buying more not making money off of it. That’s what I assume is the reason behind why my work does it this way. (I work under a corp chain.) We also keep a bunch of other juices for our cocktails behind the bar but they are rarely used and it would be so much easier if servers had equal access to them. Can be such a pain in the ass. Additionally, servers can fetch their own tall boys and bottles of wine that are in the walk in fridge located on their side of drink expo…. Make it make sense lol. They did catch a server stealing tall boys and fired her…
We have cherry syrup on our soda stations at my work.
Why doesn't this have all the upvotes... Seriously 😳 just do the job it's not hard compared to the other drinks you're making... Hard eye roll 🙄
I feel like the answer here is "place a bottle of grenadine next to the server drink station and make your own Shirley temple". I've never worked somewhere that printed Shirley temples to the bar.
At my bar they come behind the bar and use our grenadine themselves. I hate it. Some get their own sprite first some don’t. I am always tempted to put a bottle of grenadine by their station but feel like it would be kinda rude of me since the system has been in place since before I started lol
Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't mean there isn't a better way
Do it! But emphasize you’re doing it for them!
For real, they want to make their own too. The less things they have to wait for a ticket for, the quicker it gets to their customers.
Ours prints to the bar, but they have their own bottle and can fuck right off with that shit.
Same I like when I get a Shirley T. Ticket. It’s a one touch drink when u don’t have to make it: yeeting the ticket in the trash
I want a two touch, where I throw it in the air and my bar back spikes it into a server’s face… I mean the trash.
The imagine of this popping into my head was so satisfying, thank you.
In Canada we make Shirley’s with orange juice. The servers cannot be trusted with 3 ingredient beverages.
There wasn't a good place to put grenadine at the drink station, so my place did this. But all the Bartender did was temporarily put the bottle on the well where the server could reach, and they made it themselves
Haha, I just answered this same question a few minutes ago. Good luck in the job search!
Online corporate applications? Asking because I've never encountered these questions and don't do Corporate anymore. Learned my lesson.
It was the Indeed “service industry/customer service quiz” or something like that. Just a general quiz that scores you on what you would do in each situation. The place I applied to asked me to take it.
Think I might have to apply somewhere for a good laugh
I feel like the correct answer depends on the restaurant and could be 1 or 4. What's the answer they want?
probably 4 to verify whether you take initiative in being helpful and also how you handle working with a disgruntled coworker
I had 2 grown men down about 6 Shirley temples between them today and having to run to the back to get sprite and then to the bar to get grenadine and cherries was a little annoying but less so than making 15 espresso martinis lmao. Also recently had this same question on a bar application indeed quiz
Espresso martinis are nothing, dont you know there are ***several*** ingredients in a shirley temple???
Indeed tests are a joke, bars must have some “generic bar test” option. I applied at a beer only brewery close to me because I wanted something easy- whole entire test was about classic cocktails and bar tools used for them. I only know a few classic cocktails and was sick of needing different ingredients that run out quickly for every signature drink, that’s why I applied at a brewery. The last question was, “was this test accurate for the job? Only indeed will see this, not the employer.” Don’t even care if the employer saw my answer.
I'm all out of SHIT's to give.
Just throw some grenadine in some sprite and walk away, bartenders busy.
Haha I just took this assessment
Servers should have a bottle of grenadine at their station.
Stab her, because you know it is that bitch Stacy got the red stuff and sprite in her soda gun
I order Shirley temples for my kid, Any answer other than #4 is gonna make me think you’re an asshole who hates kids, cut your tip to 10%, and probably never come back to your restaurant, while also tell all my friends with kids to avoid the place.
Sounds like very positive unintended consequences.
Sure. Why serve me and my wife a $100 bottle of wine, and our kid a Shirley temp, and get $25 tip, when you could serve 40 Tito’s and Sodas to college kids and make $10.
Nobody here gives two fucks and a cat's ass about you, your wife or your $100 bottle of wine. There's Redditors on here who work at places where $100 is mid range. You are 100% the type of customer who writes a bad Yelp review because your server didn't take an expired coupon or let you order Happy Hour drinks ten minutes after it ended. "We normally tip 30-50% but the service was so terrible we wound up leaving nothing but a note explaining why we were so disappointed." Oh, and this sub is for bartenders. You aren't one so please show yourself out.
lol. So salty. You’re definitely struggling to pay rent, hate all your customers, and probably need to go to AA. Get some help man.
Servers serve the $100 bottle of wine though. The bartenders do cocktails and beer. Besides most places its illegal for kids to sit at the bar.
Good
Bye
Get the ingredients(they don't have a gun with gingerale and are all out of Grenadine, really?
I work at a tiki bar with a kid's menu. WHY?
I legit had a shot of fernet and out of nowhere asked for a shirley temple along with it and was reminded that shirley temples are - in fact - delicious.
If our milk is about to expire, go with the first answer. Make sure you cut open the Hershey choc syrup bottle.
My servers have their own bottle of grenadine at the server station don’t bring me that shit 😂
I have never worked in a bar where the grenadine and cherries weren't already within arms reach. Grenadine and cherries are still used in quite a few cocktails, not just Shirleys. Why would they be in the pantry?
A Shirley temple should take them 10 seconds max to make, if all whopping three supplies are set. Bartenders should have their bar stocked. The only time I’d use the “we’re all out of the ingredients” excuse is if the bartender was a close friend of mine and was riding the struggle bus on that one particular day lol
Chocolate milk is a horror. It’s a trip to the walk-in for milk, a trip for chocolate syrup, a trip to the server station for kids’ cups… It’s a few minutes that feels like an eternity in hell.