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Originally Posted by AnnieK
But his main responsibility is to serve drinks. How would you feel if a barman said "sorry mate, you'll have to wait to be served till some dude I dont know finishes in the bathroom as I've got to watch his drinks?"
All it takes is to go to serve someone else and someone could swipe your drink.
Sorry Parm, I don't agree with you on this. The moral is.....go before you buy or take your drinks with you, for me at least
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Agree with this.
I also think if the bar was dead as it seems, rather than a nod you should just have..asked the barman if it was ok to leave your drinks. He would probably have put them beind the bar incase he was distracted, then gave them back when you came back. Problem solved. I was asked this kind of thing regularly, and it was never an issue plus the customers (usually women, men just randomly left drinks and went for wanders, where women were more careful for obvious reasons..) knew everything was fine.
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As for being able to just replace, or just chuck someone out or whatever..
It really depends. I have worked in very busy bar/nightclubs and also 'little old man' bars which were frequented by the same few drinkers day after day, and everything inbetween tbh. The clubs we would have been able to chuck anyone out for no reason, also would have been technically able to just replace drinks for randomers to avoid scenes and write down as spillage but we would have been fired for doing so if caught, would have been able to replace drinks to regular customers who moaned though as we had a little discretion with those who spent enough cash. Very quiet places, there was hell on for chucking people out regardless of reasons..even when one guy sat and pissed himself all over the bar seat..apparently I was too harsh for telling him to go home, I didn't even bar him which I really wanted to given I had to clean his mess up..but even throwing him out was wrong apparently
In those bars, if a customer kicked up a fuss we would mainly be told to just replace too given it was literally the same like..8 men on rotation each day. Middle ones though, no replacements ever. And awkward customers were just chucked, no questions asked. As there was a steady enough stream of customers to replace and as TS said, generally getting rid of someone who causes a fuss will increase your take, not reduce it. Spillage was also very closely monitored there..like, they used to watch back random shifts just to make sure that nothing was being written as waste that wasn't
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