13 Bartenders Reveal Jaw-Dropping Secrets and Unforgettable Nights Behind the Bar
Sunday closing shift – huge family party is the last table in the place. Two servers and me – they bring the bill and whoever organized the dinner apparently drops on the family that they are all going Dutch – it begins as an argument about money and turns into a brawl – we were a seafood restaurant bar and someone took a plastic fish off the wall and used it as a weapon – they finally paid the bill with like 8 cards – luckily it was a automatic tip on the bill.
Two of us working, watch this couple walk up to the other bartender. The person ordering was phenomenally hot, the partner is giving the bartender a sign to cut them off with a silent wave to the throat. Bartender is enamored with phenomenally beautiful customer and sees it as an opportunity to hit on them. Bartender tells their partner, it’s not their place to determine what’s best for them, says you seem controlling and pretty insecure. Has a laugh with the hottest and takes a shot with them.
2 seconds later…
It looked like Mexican food and corn dogs, and it was all over the bar the bartender it was everywhere. It was an absolute disaster.
The pukening. Worked for a guy that would get aggressive if you cut people off. Group of ladies comes in more than tipsy from bottomless brunch and orders a round of tequilla rose shots and long island ice teas. One lady downs two shots, and her long island then goes suspiciously quiet. A minute later, she throws up on herself and her friends and keeps throwing up. I run for a bin bag and ended up standing there holding this ladies hair while she’s sick in a bin bag and her friends are trying to call someone. Meanwhile, the owner is standing there yelling at me. Had to work the rest of the shift, smelling vaguely of sick. I didn’t quit, but I did report him to both the tax man and the licensing authority. Shortly after that, we got a new owner.
Guy was on a Tinder date at my bar. The girl was actually a high school classmate of his, they hadn’t spoken in years, but they knew each other.
After two hours of drinks and food, he went to the bathroom leaving his phone/wallet/keys in his jacket pocket draped over the chair.
She immediately found them and booked it out the door. She then stole his BMW and went on a shopping spree.
And the schmuck at the bar? He lamented for an hour that “it must have been an emergency…she’s going to come back” before I forced him to call the cops and file a report because at that point, he couldn’t pay his $200 tab either.
I often think about him five years later.
I was a bartender in Montreal in 2009. Jay Burachel came in with Sarah Polley, Seth Rogan and two English brothers. Well dressed older English guy gets rip roaring drunk, gets belligerent. Threatens to hit the female waitstaff and throws an empty tumbler at her after she cuts him off and has to be restrained by his brother and seth. They get him out the door, the brothers start fighting in the street because the older guy gets man at younger brother restraining him. You brother handles him to the ground and out of frustration knees him right in the head, and Seth Kicks him in the ribs. Younger brother pushes Seth and starts threatening him. Older brother gets up and falls back down. Gets up one more time, dusts himself off, asks his brother if he’s good and them walks off arm in arm with brother.
Just a recent one, not a crazy one…
A few months back a couple in their early 20s came into the bar, told the bartender they were going bar to bar and drinking whatever the bartender’s fave drink was – cue three shots of Jameson. Thankfully they made it to the street before the lass…experienced the shot a second time!
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