Do You Want to Start a Tab?

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So there we go. Everyone in the service industry has story Crazy customers, Wild Orders and WTU. Oh my God. W wtf moments. Do you want to start a tab? The podcast here to bring you those tales from behind the bar. My name is Carl and I'm fucked up. My name's Riley and I'm sober ish. Definitely, definitely sober. It's going to be one of those podcasts, ladies and gentlemen.

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We're just going to get that disclaimer out of the way tonight for you. So we're excited. We have another lovely get. Oh, my God. We are off the rails right now. You are off the rails. Well, you are married to me and we are an item, so I cannot control your trade. I cannot do it to you. So we have.

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We have a guest. Her name is Chandler. We met her through the Bartenders Rant podcast group. If I remember correctly, you are an entrepreneur, bartender and a chef, correct? Yeah, I will go with that. And so how are you doing this lovely Monday night? I would say I'm really in between where you two are not fully right and go, That's kind of I guess we appreciate on this channel or on this channel on this podcast.

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Right, right, right. So so give our audience a little little short story because we'll go more in depth with you on our passion. But just like a quick little 32nd elevator pitch of who you are and what you do. All right. I've been in the services industry for 20 years, started watching this, climbed up the ladder and ran and opened concepts across the world, transitioned to that and are really still doing stuff and created a big card game about nice, nice.

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Unknown
So we ordered ours, but ours is on back order, which is actually a good thing, right? Because that means you're having a lot of orders come through right? So it also means that even like you get there on the bench. Oh yeah. Everything those guys touch is like probably already four months old. It's already expired. They're already past the fucking expiration date.

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Those guys do, but they're amazing. Gentlemen. Actually, what's kind of cool is I'm going to New York in a couple of months in June for a bartender convention, and I'm going to take a train from New York down to Baltimore and hang out with Steve for a couple of nights. So I'm Mahalia. We probably neither of us are gonna remember both those nights.

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I'm just hoping he comes back alive or at all. Yeah. Does I'd say or no this is a call from the Baltimore police. The police department letting you rot. Do you accept the charges contract with us? You? That'd be hilarious. He's in my fucking carry on. You go, Steve. You have bedroom for you. Good Lord. Oh, my God.

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Okay, so, ladies, what are we drinking? And I guess first. Hmm? Oh, this is the one with the most cocktails goes first, and that is you. Okay, well, then I don't them. But I have a 30. There you go. Perfect. But we did have number of coffee for today. After my cocktail, I actually put the question to people that follow me on my Instagram what I should make.

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And one person was super spicy. And so it's like that person ever. I was just so I decided to try and make the really most impact and has a taste. I'm not mad at it. You do it right, but it stays nice. That is so. I've been bartending now for, I don't know, 11, 12 years. I even know what aroma Joe Genovese was until maybe like three or four years ago.

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Unknown
Maybe maybe five. And I still have never made that cocktail or have never or I've seen our menu once or twice, but I just like they're not doing the the correct way, so I've never ordered it yet. So I know that's something we're going to tackle our YouTube channel for sure, but I love it. Yeah, I mean, I know I'm going to love it.

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Unknown
You know, it's like everyone's like, it's like an orange creamsicle. This is what everyone says it is. So. Oh, I made one with Lucas out once as the base, and it's this beautiful sky blue color, right? And then I did like a strip. So it was this the iced orange US? Yeah. Yeah, it was so funny. I guess you should say blue care.

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Unknown
So last night we went to hotel to work out. We were. I'm going through the new menu with our other bartenders, and they're all really fresh bartenders. Like, this is the first bartending job, and they're less than a year old. And then I was like, Someone had blue care on the bar for a drink the other day. And I'm like, You guys understand that this is triple SEC, right?

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Unknown
Like, what I got is this triple SEC with blue dye in it. I go is supposed to make it. We got super popular in the eighties to make cocktails look beautiful and it just blew their fucking mind. I'm like, Why do you think there's orange is on the goddamn bottle for We weren't, you know. Well, maybe they do some fucked up things there in Dallas, you know, I don't know.

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Unknown
I will say this. We were in Dallas in November for a wedding. One of my eyes law. What? Probably my longest friend they still talk to on a kind of regular basis. Right? And anyways, we're like, fuck, man. Limes are like $0.20 down here. They're really hazy. But yeah, so, uh, what are you drinking, Miss Bush? Yo, you know, she did not take my last name, and I love calling her Mrs. Bush sometimes.

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Unknown
I mean, I don't blame them. Yeah, I don't blame her either. I am drinking the distilled, wild, sour dragonfruit mango mango. So it still is one of our favorite breweries out of normal Illinois. And they do a lot of sour beers. It's we love it here. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. It's they're only like 4 hours from us. We went there one time.

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Unknown
Yeah it's they're solid sours. I don't think we've had a bad one, but we haven't tried the pickle one yet, so I will not try to pick one. He doesn't like pickles. I What do you talk? I love fucking pickles. I just the one of my goddamn beer. I forgot that you. That's why I just always eat your pickle right?

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Unknown
Right. Scratch that. I mean, not scratch that. Reverse, right? Take me a pickle eating bush If I put my pickle in your bush. Like I said, this. This podcast is off the rails. I rarely take long and I am drinking a rum Old-Fashioned. I got some little Demerara Orange bitters. And then, I don't know, half let's say an ounce and a half of plantation's a mocha.

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And then I wanted a half of the diplomatic co rum. So yeah. Jimmy, let's go. So. All right, so if you are still listening to this podcast and we're, you know, 5 minutes, they do. Congratulations. You have unlocked the secret code. We apologize. So if you're not aware of what we do on this podcast, we read stories off the Internet, we discuss it, give feedback of how the situation could maybe been better, you know, differently.

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And then we tell you who we think the asshole is. And possibly if there is a hero, then we rate the story from 1 to 5, one being your average story and then five being a unique situation that you don't see happen a lot. And then since we have a guest, they supply us with one of their crazy more possibly crazy stories.

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It could be pretty lame. Steve's story was pretty lame last week, So it was so lame. So lame. I got drunk, I blacked out. Okay, good. Sorry, bro. Some of the words. Are you all right? So is going to have a story ready for us. I think, correct? Yes, I have a story. I need to go find more story since my subreddit that I you take all my sub or stories from is no longer.

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What am I looking for on that on. But the this is something I got close to because it was unmoderated which is a problem. I guess now I have to actually work all right. So this comes from the subreddit. Fuck you, Karen. I already love this. And the username is kapow blam boom. This from two months ago. I love them.

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Unknown
I do that to you later. Shut the fuck up and put your fake blood in the booth, baby. A name of awesome band pickle in the bush. Let's go see Pickle in the bush. Fuck up. I will go see that. Don't encourage him. Anyway, this story is called New Year's Eve. Karen mad that her kids aren't allowed at the bar.

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Unknown
Oh, my God. I already I. Well, I already have so many things about this. And just a reminder, we do read these stories as is. So grammatical errors are not my problem and in person and yeah, that means that we struggle with reading insight because we don't know how to read is like we're trying to figure out how.

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Well, if you struggle with reading, it could be 5050. You don't know how to read. I barely pass the third grade, right? I'm alone. Anyway, eating dinner last night at a nice regional casual dining restaurant with a bar in the center of the dining room. The restaurant was located dead in the middle of the area. The city was having its first night celebration and it was 50 degrees and moderate, steady rain.

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Suddenly a family walks in the busy restaurant and goes straight to the bar. Mom, dad in for grade school slash middle school kids standing in a park between our table and the bar all soaking wet. I hear the dad tell the kids, Look, you got to behave. People are eating here. We need to get out of the rain and mom and dad are going to have a couple of drinks.

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Josh They are taking group selfies and generally clogging up the flow of the entire bar area walking pets. The kids were being kids. Mom was trying to flag down the bartender and then it happened. Manager approached Mom to tell her that they cannot have children in the bar area but could be put on a wait list for a table.

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Karen erupts, But we are just here to have a drink. It is New Year's Eve and it's raining outside. So many A's, so many A's and I and I and G-d as I manager, had obviously had enough with the evening. And so it's pointing towards the door. We must have seen 25 people from first night trying to just come use the bathroom in the hour.

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Unknown
We were there. Karen started shouting, Oh this is bullshit. And her children aren't technically in the bar. Karen and her embarrassed family were walked out by the manager and she was bitching the entire way, was glad just to be a spectator. Was it? That's it. So the asshole or the parents? Absolutely. It didn't seem like the dad. He told us to sit down and shut up while they drank.

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Unknown
I mean, they took they, they both took them into the bar and told them to sit down. Shut up. We're going to have a couple drinks. We're not going to give you anything, but be quiet, okay? That's good. Yeah. See? I mean, like because they didn't Dirty Shirley or not Dirty Shirley. So. Shirley Temple. So this happened. This shit happens to me all the time at the hotel bar, right?

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Unknown
Like parents, especially, like when baseball tournament weekend, you know, they're all traveling and they want to sit at the bar, get shitfaced, and their kids get bored, sit in the hotel room. I've have kids come in, like with wise ignorance, so I can't play fucking Call of Duty. I don't give a fuck, man. That's it's not my problem.

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Unknown
And then, like, they're just running around being obnoxious. And then in the state of Iowa, the law is after 9:00. If your establishment doesn't sell 50% of the sales of food, kids under 21 or anyone under 21 is not allowed. So usually about 830, we tell all these parents, Hey, in 30 minutes your kids have to leave and they cannot come in like, well, we paid a lot of money.

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Unknown
I go, Your hotel stay does not cover the cost of our liquor sales that we would possibly lose because you guys want to see you get trashed, right. And you don't care about your kids running around like we're not their babysitters. Right. So I wonder if that's being right. It's New Year's Eve. They either forgot to make plans or couldn't afford a babysitter for kids.

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Unknown
Right. But I mean, there's high schools everywhere, right? Like maybe $40. You're going to spend that on booze just pregame at home a little bit. Maybe they have a reputation of having shitty fucking kids and no one wants to babysit them. Well, no wonder with parents like that. Right? Also true. I mean, in Texas, minors can sit in our if it's like a restaurant.

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Unknown
Yeah, for as long as they are in eyesight of their already for however late most places in general we'll cut it off around nine but it's not legally they don't have to They don't want to. Yeah and again 9:00 it's like, why do you want your fucking 12 year old hanging out at a bar area after 9:00 like now, Like the whole with the whole joke.

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Unknown
Nothing happens after good happens one after midnight or one. Yeah. Like after nine. You're like, I used to think the same about, like, parents who would come into family video at midnight, like right before we closed with three kids into like, Listen, I know you're trying to get a movie, but it is midnight. I mean, it makes me think of the commercials from the nineties like it's 9 p.m. right?

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Unknown
Yeah, because they're with me and I'm at the bar. A All right, Just teach your kids how to bartend and save our money. We just had them bartend for you at home like you did back in the day. I feel like I feel like one of my cousins knew how to say, drink a beer before you could say anything else because they would make him go get a beer.

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Unknown
My first kids. My first kids. Word was old fashioned. Not even mom or dad. It was old fashioned. No, it wasn't. I know, but I'm just saying it would be hilarious if that was the thing. But yeah, I don't know. Like I hate. And also when people get mad, we're like, Your kids are not supposed to be here.

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Unknown
They get mad. So mad, like, dude, like, this is our business, not yours. Right over here, citizen. What's that? They're not full size. Right? Exactly right. And then they just let them run amuck like there was a possible solution where they got put on a waiting list for a table. And then one parent stands at the waiting space and the other does shots, and then they turn on and then, yeah, or one parent orders two drinks, takes it to the waiting area.

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Unknown
Right now you don't have to do it in the bar area, right. As long as you are in the building, you can have that drink with you because I'm sorry. No matter how well behaved your kids are, that's for kids. They're going to be like kids. They're just they're going to be in the way. You're going to like exactly who's going to do that?

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Unknown
Don't say, hey, dad, don't. It's called foreplay. So what the fuck? Oh, so yeah, that story. Because I see it personally all the time happening, you know, extreme at the hotel. You know, I. I gave it just the one five, you know, I guess New Year's Eve is what's kind of, you know, giving a little bit like, damn, you kind of fucked up.

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Unknown
And I said, they probably just forgot to ask for a babysitter, right? Because. Because what? New Year's Eve was on Saturday this year. Right. So that's like extra crazy, right? So yeah, yeah, they just fucked up and they're just like, I mean, if you can't find a babysitter for your kids, it's not hard to go buy a bottle of something and make sure you're home.

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Unknown
Stay home, get drunk, get home, celebrate with your kids, make some sparkling cider. Right. Because we're going to double down on the asshole here and know that those parents are both drinking and driving their four children home, Right? Well, true. There's not going to be a sober one. Maybe they do. The whole one. Kids on the pedals, one kids on the steering wheel.

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Unknown
Things get worse. And me, you never know. I said the left total that is that is that is child abuse. Maybe one of the children was trying to get his license. Yeah, that's said they said elementary middle school aged middle schoolers middle schools 14. Yeah. Yeah. But you can't legally be a dad until you're 18. That's true. But it did You have to be.

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Unknown
So your parents. Iowa. My Iowa. Okay. At least in Iowa you can. I mean, honestly, I don't know. Yeah, but a lot of a lot of states won't let you be a dad until you're 18 because you're not supposed to be around alcoholic beverages until you're 18. Like serving them. Well, it's just it's just because the reason why you have an adult in the car is because they're sober and understand what's going on.

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Unknown
If they're drunk and that's it, you might as well not have anyone in the car and be driving by yourselves. So I give 215. Like I said, it's just it's dose it's so funny when this shit happens at the hotel. It's just like because we already know even my door guy, Brett, we both are like, God is going to fucking suck because he get mad at us and he's trying to sneak in.

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Unknown
It's like, All right, you know, like you could you can tell the underage it's a small building there. It's just like it's, it's a small area. You can see everybody who walked and were sober. We can see everything. Are you mostly seniors? It's all right. My my boss is does not listen to his podcast. So I'm sorry for him.

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Unknown
So it. Chandler, what do you give us a story. Um hmm one being average run of the mill every day. Five being a wild ride. So certainly not wild. No pretty common. I'm going to say it to just be that. Is that is New Years, right? So that's a lot of estimate. And usually when I see things like this, there's not four children in so right right.

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Unknown
It's like well one obvious amount of right to bring with you. Well maybe they created a fifth child and they have their own fucking basketball team in nine months. That's halfway to the game, right? Yeah, they have their own. Yeah. They can run their own little, little French brigade, right. All right, line cook, rally wanker, dishwasher, first. Right buzzer And obviously the parents of the bartenders obviously, obviously, their drinks are guaranteed for sure.

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Unknown
Just the audacity to we want to drink, but our kids are with us. Why would she drink at home? Bring up. That was new. It was that. That it was raining. Yeah. She brought up that it was raining. Then go somewhere else right? Like, just like damn Jackie threat. Whether it's Tam, Jackie, it's Afro. It's about 77. Oh yeah, that's right.

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Unknown
Yeah. I'm Jackie. I can't control the weather is awesome. Oh, so going to I'm going to give it a 1.75. I'm going to split the difference. We're doing hundreds now. Yes. Oh, you and fucking AJ can go second. God damn. First one was like a 1.03 or something. So we have we have friends. You. Have you ever heard the podcast Confused Breakfast?

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Unknown
It's a it's a movie review podcast. So we're friends with them. And this one guy, he always does like the decimal. He started the whole 8.74 right? And so sometimes it's like, Fuck you, AJ And you're God damn, I love the decimal system. Yeah, I, I all the time like, yes, it's going to be there. I also give you an 1108 to 710 like, I'm not going to be there 710 I'll be there at eight.

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Unknown
So then you have to try really hard to get there by 708. Like, is it a point of pride at that point? Oh absolutely. Because it would be for me. Like you arrive at 704, you just sit in your car for 4 minutes just to be back in 708. I would absolutely be happy. Yeah, I could stand at the door where they can see my face and not walking seven or eight just Hey, hold your hand.

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Unknown
They're waiting to knock until the right time. Open the door. Close it right there. Watching you on the door. Ring bell the entire time to like, what is this bitch doing? Oh, so I was some exciting news, right? That you don't even know. Yeah, well, we have our first pregnant. Yes, I am. I'm literally always six months pregnant, and we have our first picture.

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Unknown
I remember. Oh, we do assumption. Guess who it is? The ice man. No, it's a trailer. Okay. Thank you. Really? Yeah. So if you want to be as awesome as her, you can go to our page. And it's for $3 a month. It's less than a beer at the bar, and it's. It's happy hour. It's less than the beers that we drink at home.

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Unknown
Yeah, exactly. So what we do is we interview all our guests for an extra 30 minutes, what we call last call. We just talk about their lives and what they do in the hospitality industry or anything extra they got going on. And so, yeah, if you want to support the show, that's a great way. Another way to support the show is go in your favorite podcasting platform and give us a rating of whatever you want to give us.

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I don't care. Just something, just a little bit of something helps us out. Share this podcast with your friends or family. Tell them that they have to listen to us or seven years back, like, I don't fucking know and then also if you have a story that you want to share with us, we do have a subreddit is in the description of any podcast platform that you're on.

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Unknown
Do you want to start Taps subreddit? Just leave a story and we you will read it on the I was going to see the air, but this is not the radios. It's not the radios. God damn, this is going to be a really hard podcast. You are devolving into nothing. You just put shit on places. Quit rambling. Let's move.

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Unknown
Okay. All right. Chandler, are you? I guess I would say, are you ready to indulge everyone to your lovely story? Are you ready? I'm trying to think of a name for it. Doesn't need a name unless you want. Unless you want it to have a name. Otherwise, this is going to go on my spreadsheet like I am sorry.

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Unknown
Damn. Oh, that'd be all right if it helps. Steve Sorry was called licking sharpie, so I'm going to preface this that I might be reading herpes patients. This. This is the only time I've ever done, so I just want that on record. Okay, So the story goes that I was in a city or to visit a friend's. My boyfriend was in town and we went to this bar that I selected.

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Unknown
It was newer to the area kind of prohibition style. And I really wanted, you know, most everyone in the group there, about 6 to 8 of us were all drinking classes with the exception of like one of us having. So we were in the house and it was $10 and it was to get the worst. Wow. So it was really bad.

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Unknown
It was like half a bottle of bitters per cocktail, so much fucking sugar and I don't even remember. It wouldn't have mattered. All right, so we're all drinking these ashes and they're like, This is awful. I was delivered to them from the group and they're like, We really want to go faster than, Can you just go tell the bartender how to make it?

00:25:19:15 - 00:25:46:09
Unknown
Like, Ooh, that's good and not the good thing to do, but I don't want this right? We suffer through it. I think the task of doing the ordering for me now I get this one bartender. She was not very cordial the first time. He was very frustrated that we didn't order something from higher. So he kept asking if I wanted to try something different.

00:25:47:04 - 00:26:17:17
Unknown
No, I'm ordering for six people. I want to write. I come back. She's not happy to see me. They are busy but not crazy. Slammed. And I got a bottle of American prairie bourbon on the bar. It's not on a high, so I've had that whiskey before. I'm familiar with the portfolio and I know it's not a crazy expensive whiskey, so I was like, This will make you right.

00:26:17:19 - 00:26:51:12
Unknown
It's a decent price anywhere I've ever ordered it. And I just ordered. I was like, I was like, were six American, Very old fashioned. Could we do Angostura Bitters? Maybe like ashes and just put them on top? She's like, Right. So it's making them take the drinks. They're much better. Everybody's happy. And then I go to close my tab and she had Charlie $27 for each American area.

00:26:52:04 - 00:27:21:17
Unknown
And I was very upset. So then I did something I've never done before where I asked to take my reasoning to the manager. One is if this is the price, that's well and good, but I've never seen bourbon cost that much in a location. I feel like it's not a big ask to have a bartender check in before serving something if the price difference is $17.

00:27:21:17 - 00:27:59:01
Unknown
Absolutely. It's I mean, the drinks that I saw and he's like, oh my gosh, this is unacceptable. Or he's like, that definitely should be that expensive cleaner and it was like not a deal. He's also been really. So how does your tipping is like, Well, it's a general rule because like, right cool. So I asked him to move the first order to a separate and I tip to the bar on that like 20%, right?

00:27:59:02 - 00:28:21:01
Unknown
And then I had him take all very expensive old fashioned and move them to a table in a section where there was a server who had got you real traffic. Right. And then we just closed that with our let's get system and he leave it at the 27. They adjust it he adjusted it but we figured as if the toll would be 20.

00:28:21:13 - 00:28:47:18
Unknown
Right. So you don't like it at that person like 40 plus dollars and. Right. Oh 27 times $630 times 680. So I'd be like, okay, fuck, man. Like, let me go. So I've done this up to like where people as we don't have like a super a lot like I'm more of what we're trying to do. My most expensive pour is a macallan 12, you know, two ounce pour.

00:28:47:18 - 00:29:07:15
Unknown
But if you order that, you know you're you're paying $20 for Macallan 12. But when someone orders the Don Julio Anejo, I'm like just, you know, $14. Like like I know it's not that much, but it's also I don't want you to be sticker shocked when, you know, when I give you this fucking bill, right? Like, I just want to make sure it sounds like it's not that much.

00:29:07:15 - 00:29:21:22
Unknown
I go, I understand. But that's that's higher than most of the shit we have around. So I'm just going to let you know, right? Because it's not like you're ordering Don Julio, what was it, 1942 or whatever it is, You know, like, but $27 for an old fashioned. I mean, it better come with a reach around or something.

00:29:23:03 - 00:29:43:17
Unknown
It it's not even and it wasn't even that good that it was in that line. Right. It was one of our insured, not entry levels, but it was one of their like Yeah. Instant shot of that or that in that city averages ten bucks. Right. And then in Texas, depending on which city, I've never seen more of that customer.

00:29:44:15 - 00:30:01:02
Unknown
Right. I mean like yeah no fashion. Yeah. Maybe 12, 13, even 14 you can see. But like once you hit that 16 plus mark, you're like, What the fuck? Right. Well, and I mean, but I mean, even if you're in, if you, if you're in a big city and you're looking at 15 or $16. Yeah, that's, that's a lot.

00:30:01:03 - 00:30:34:03
Unknown
But I mean, I guess I'll pay it. But 27. That's ridiculous. Crazy. What city in Florida. Saint Augustine. Where's that at? It's about an hour. Okay. See, I've only been to Florida twice. Once in second grade, when we went to the whole Disney experience. And the other time, no booze consumption. No booze consumption. I remember we went to the Budweiser, which is some sort of I don't know, Budweiser thing, and I just smell beer.

00:30:34:03 - 00:30:54:07
Unknown
And I thought was like when we're one of the worst smelling things ever. And then the second time was in Sanibel Island. That was like six months ago now, six years ago. And that's over by Fort Myers. And I heard it doesn't even exist anymore because it's past hurricane, right? So but yeah, that's fucking I hate bartenders. Like, they don't do that, right?

00:30:54:07 - 00:31:09:04
Unknown
Like, like you said, you ordered a bunch of ten oh drinks and then if she's going to triple trace you like, like, hey, just, you know, this is this much. You still want to go with it? That's if you're out there, you know, and you're thinking about hospitality. That's that's hospitality right there. Like, hey, right, I know what you want.

00:31:09:04 - 00:31:23:16
Unknown
This is what we charge. Are you okay with this? So the question is, why do we think she was such a bitch about it? Right? Like, does she not know how to make an old fashioned and she the only drink she knows how to make are the ones on the menu, which is why she kept trying to push them.

00:31:23:19 - 00:31:49:23
Unknown
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure you didn't want to make your presence on the menu and it wasn't bad, but from what I recall, this was several years ago. You know, most of their house cocktails were made to order. I do recall her trying to get me to order either off the happy hour menu or like one in like five sodas.

00:31:49:23 - 00:32:19:07
Unknown
Right? For all I know, they were understaffed. We just for the well, anyway, but she wasn't very well. And even the group came up. That's why they sent me. Is there ongoing? Oh, let's speak. Or tender. Oh, make her feel better. I don't know. Right, let me. I don't usually vote. People being in a bad mood. You mentioned you don't have to take it out on me, right?

00:32:19:07 - 00:32:39:07
Unknown
I don't fault you for being in a bad mood, but I'll fault you for taking it out on me. I'll fault you for being a dick all day. Yeah. And yet you're still married to me. I wish I could see your face more when I'm listening to you and my comment. Oh, all right. This all the time. Just imagine disappointment.

00:32:40:00 - 00:33:03:19
Unknown
Just very strange. It regrets all the love, all the. The letters of the letters of regret to God. But yeah, that's. Yeah. How was okay so how is the menu right. Was the cocktail menu like did it seem pretty standard or basic or did they have some cool stuff on it. They had some cool stuff. They were definitely not from focus on.

00:33:04:00 - 00:33:30:06
Unknown
It's a new distilleries and a lot of them. Right. But they did have other spirits, so it wasn't like you had to order right? They produced, but they definitely had that good mix of classic cocktails and riffs and then a couple like Original Creations. Sure, Yeah. I don't know if the bar team they had at the time was trained for that kind of effort.

00:33:30:07 - 00:33:50:15
Unknown
So fashion out of the whole. I mean, and that's that's going to be the downfall of a bar is if you have a bad old fashioned well I mean I think in your basic cocktails right like an old fashioned a gimlet, you know, an old fashioned a martini, like a dry martini. Right. Manhattan, Manhattan. If you can't make that, well, then why am I even right?

00:33:50:17 - 00:34:29:13
Unknown
Why am I going to assume you can make the super intense, involve cocktails better? Like, I mean, I was living with the people who are definitely not in the industry, right? A couple of them might have my rights and waiting. This is my out of high school. Right. But collectively, when they also offer grab and go to every conceivable, you can hear everybody well and you should have been her best friend because old fashions are easy to make and you ordered the same thing just with less of the shit in there.

00:34:29:13 - 00:34:47:19
Unknown
So you're speeding her job up, right? You are. You are. You're all ordering the same thing. She doesn't have to have multiple things going at the same time. You're making you have a literally a three ingredient cocktail, you know, you should be her best friend. I would never be put out from a six, like a six drink ticket.

00:34:47:19 - 00:35:10:05
Unknown
That's all right. I would think Jesus, that's what it was like. Oh, I'm going to own a rough version. I'm sorry. Having served for what? I can make this faster than, like, a fucking bill. Yeah, it could have been in Jack and Coke. Singapore Sling, Zombie Ramos, Gin fizz, right? Yeah, But no, you have. You have six old fashioned.

00:35:10:23 - 00:35:42:09
Unknown
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Respect the right. And I'm going to go fuck you without lube in charge of $27 a piece. All right. If I saw that bill, I would just look at you like, fuck you. I was just like, I was like, Fuck you. There's no way. Absolutely not. But when I got the part out, I remember staring at the bottle because it was the 60 plus for the first and then 180 for the Sixers.

00:35:42:09 - 00:36:21:16
Unknown
Like you're looking at $230 plus Bill. Yeah, for two rounds drink right that I had offered to buy and so I think the ticket and I was like I'll be right now holding the ticket as if it's like hot And I was like, Dude, what the fuck am I looking for that budget? Listen to my vacation. So that reminds me, do you know who Do you know who the comedian Bert Crusher is?

00:36:21:16 - 00:36:42:02
Unknown
Yeah. Okay, so there's a story where he was out eating with Ralphie May, who is a comedian and was like, I'm going to I'm going to pay for this. Like he handed the server a credit. Currently I'm paying for us and they went out to sushi goes I fucked up because the bill he goes, This is before Bert was like famously Bert.

00:36:42:03 - 00:37:01:14
Unknown
He was like rising up and the bill was like $2,000. Because if you don't know who Ralphie May is, Ralphie was. He's a big boy, right? And he loves to eat. And then, I guess, like, if you listen to the story, good talks about, like, he had to convince his wife they had, like, move money around to pay for this $2,000 fucking sushi bill.

00:37:01:14 - 00:37:29:11
Unknown
He goes, I fucked up. But also I came up with a name for this story. I'm calling it a hot ticket. Hot ticket. And they're powerless to make a drink. Hot ticket? Maybe. I like this. What is so funny? Pickled in it? Yeah, but. Oh, yeah, man, that's. I mean, there was a time. Okay, so just this past New Year's Eve, we paid for our.

00:37:29:21 - 00:37:49:18
Unknown
Our drinks and our friends drinks, but it was like there were six. Six? Yes, six of us. I think we each got three rounds in, like a couple of shots, like. And it was like $200. But like, I was okay with pain that we're, we're idea of our budget. Actually, that was the Super Bowl. Yeah. Oh, Super Bowl, Not New Year's.

00:37:49:18 - 00:38:10:00
Unknown
I was like, I was working New Year's Eve, Super Bowl. I knew it was like that was also like I don't my spend $200 when I know we all got like three or four drinks shots and all. But yeah, like you said, 12 drinks. Like fuck off, right? It's $120. Yeah, there's a lot there's a thing. Everyone thought I was the asshole.

00:38:10:00 - 00:38:31:22
Unknown
Like my friend group thought I was the asshole because I separated track and tipped someone else. That had nothing to do with the situation. I mean, I guess I would be kind of like you're like, What the fuck is going on? Like, if you. Right. It's hard for me to, like, disassociate being in this industry now for like right on almost half my like a fourth of my life, you know?

00:38:31:22 - 00:38:57:09
Unknown
So it's like I get that now. It's like, if I was 20 years old, I'd be like, What the fuck is going on? You know? I mean, I can, I can see that. But also, it's not like you didn't give the bartender what she deserved, right? Right. And the original first order right at the bar. That's right. That's like the cool move, right?

00:38:57:10 - 00:39:13:09
Unknown
Because it's like you do like those drink specials and like, you're giving away shit. People tip you on the discounted price and not the actual price. I kind of like that's like, fuck is mean. It is what it is. But it's also like, man, if you're ordering like, I know you're coming here just because of were happy hour right.

00:39:13:10 - 00:39:43:15
Unknown
Get that. But it's also like I'm working my ass off more during happy hour than I am when During happy hour, right? I mean she still got tipped out. So you didn't just not tip. Where does an asshole know? But you also were generous to somebody else who needed it and made that service day? Probably. Right. They didn't do a single lick and they just got like, honestly, like a free $40 or whatever, whatever that dollar amount was and made her day or his day.

00:39:44:00 - 00:40:02:23
Unknown
Right? I don't know. I can I can see how they would think you were the asshole, but at least you didn't. Just like not to it, right? All right. So I give us man. Okay, this it's kind of like there's a lot of moving parts in the story, right? Like And it's wild. Her perspective matters because I wonder what I wonder if the bartender had submitted that story, what she would have said about him.

00:40:03:17 - 00:40:25:23
Unknown
This bitch came up to my bar, told me how to make an old fashioned after I already made her sex of them. Right? Yeah. Well, you don't know how to do my job. Sure. And then she spoke to my manager. When I charge the bottle price. The price I was in the system. It's just that you have to have been self-aware to like.

00:40:25:23 - 00:40:52:20
Unknown
She knows that drink is not a $27 drink. Like, you know, it's not you just try. Maybe she didn't is to the price. You just hit the buttons. I is American period. $27 old. Some bars will do that. And then she's like like a cold. But it was like. So it was probably like $25, right? $23. All right.

00:40:52:21 - 00:41:12:21
Unknown
Because that's what we do. You hit them, you hit whatever bourbon. And then there's an old fashioned up charge of like 350 that we charge, like a month ago. Yeah, I man that fucking if you paid that price out like you just, like, swallow your pride, took it like you just paid for, like, fucking the whole case of that fucking bourbon, right?

00:41:13:00 - 00:41:38:20
Unknown
How do I get. All right, so I give best story since we're going hundreds now, a 3.25. It's. She's doing that. No, what we're doing is we write all the numbers down, and eventually when I build our website better, you'll be able to sort our stories through an average of rankings. So you can see, like, what the craziest story is, too.

00:41:38:20 - 00:42:02:16
Unknown
Like the weakest story. Yeah. Eventually I put these into a spreadsheet and send the word document, but I'm going to give it. I'm going to go 3.5 and here's what I hope it gets the 3.5, because the manager took your side, right? I love that the manager helped you out. The manager was also equally appalled at the price of your old fashions and.

00:42:02:16 - 00:42:27:15
Unknown
Honestly, that person needs more respect on their name. So here it is. It's funny. There are people that I know now that used to work there, so I don't know if they worked there at the time at this point. Okay, So at some point they do a timeline overlap, right? Yeah. We find that bartender, she's like now the general manager.

00:42:28:02 - 00:43:00:16
Unknown
I mean, she said maybe she's just having a bad day and she learned from it. She learned from it, learn from it, learned from it. Do you do you do you have a rating for your own story? I give it as a paid for a 2.7. The stress people. And it was how we started. But it isn't the first like right but it and eventually the solution did get resolved which is great right.

00:43:00:16 - 00:43:21:11
Unknown
I love that part. You know? Awesome. So there is our stories for this podcast. I've never said anything like that before. Those. Right? That's I never say anything like that. All right. So what we're going to do now is we are going to talk with Miss Chandler a little bit more about her life in the hospitality industry and her a little side gig of Heard.

00:43:21:13 - 00:43:56:00
Unknown
And yeah, Do you have anything that you want to plug right now that you would like to tell all the freeloaders of this podcast? GO Yeah, I would love to love them, which is I would when I got my game on Instagram, called Her Card Game well, podcast option or a new podcast and the word tenders which is a play on words that they obviously listen to with the money just yet you're on it.

00:43:56:01 - 00:44:24:00
Unknown
So let's listen to it. Right. So yeah, go check out all those things of everything that she suggests will be a link in the description of what her platform that you're on. And Spotify does have a nice little pull system, so we will have a pull on there about something. So go check that out and vote. I'm rambling now because I'm some my drunk and just semi whenever word one go ahead.

00:44:25:22 - 00:44:59:06
Unknown
I recently found out about this book and they only have like five of them, but it's eggs 80 list X and it's like a metal hard orbit. And all of this from a restaurant related they're called I quit reservation. Okay, hold on spot x 80. Hold on. So it's like lowercase x, all caps is mixed with a dash in the middle.

00:44:59:08 - 00:45:51:00
Unknown
Yeah. Decal sandwich. All right. Crying in the walk in. Oh. Oh, here we go. All right. But so we love hardcore metal music. Oh, oh, there we go. Chugs. I love the chugs. I love this. It's so good. Have spicy. You all right? That is amazing. I want to. That's awesome. So what's funny is I'm actually going to the reason I'm going to go see Steve is, well, besides hanging out with him, there's a band called Between the Buried in Me, and they're playing in Baltimore.

00:45:51:00 - 00:46:05:04
Unknown
One of the nights I'm going to be there, I'm going to go and check them out because we both like the same type of music. So. So anyways, after all this rambling and nonsense and we never got back on the rails, just remember, don't be a dick. Tip your bartenders and drink responsibly. Yes.