Do I need a lesson in proper bar drinking etiquette?

fdoosey · Post by **fdoosey** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:49 am

Hey, as long as it's on the house, why should I (or anyone) complain?

It could be the MacRotgut, it could be 150-year-old Grand Marnier. If it's free, and in a glass, it could be VX nerve agent, and we'd drink it.

Martini4TheLady · Post by **Martini4TheLady** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:02 am

Free drinks taste better.

Henry Chinaski · Post by **Henry Chinaski** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:21 pm

Tipping assuages your guilt and mollifies their anger.

Tip well and often and you can get away with a lot in most bars.

As a matter of fact, as someone who's rarely trying to get away with anything, that if you tip well and often you'll often be encouraged to do things in the bar you never would have considered on your own.

That's what the cheapskates don't understand. If you tip well, you end up getting much more booze than when you stiff. And ends up being a better experience all around. I try to tell people that but some of them just can't get it in their head.

DrunkenJackFlask · Post by **DrunkenJackFlask** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:15 pm

barcalounge wrote:...tip well and often you'll often be encouraged to do things in the bar you never would have considered on your own.

like topping off your chaser by yourself.

DrunkenJackFlask · Post by **DrunkenJackFlask** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:30 pm

fdoosey wrote:...it could be VX nerve agent, and we'd drink it.

I've been wanting to try that. I hear that it FUCKS YOU UP!!! With some vodka and triple sec, you could have a...a...Saddam-ikaze. Oooh, time to start a new thread under "Astonishing New Drink Recipes"!

Circling over Shannon · Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:51 pm

barcalounge wrote:Tipping assuages your guilt and mollifies their anger.

Tip well and often and you can get away with a lot in most bars.

As a matter of fact, as someone who's rarely trying to get away with anything, that if you tip well and often you'll often be encouraged to do things in the bar you never would have considered on your own.

By the way what percentage is considered a "good tip"? I usually consider myself a good tiper but I'd like to get some perspective on this

DrunkenJackFlask · Post by **DrunkenJackFlask** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:24 pm

Circling over Shannon wrote:By the way what percentage is considered a "good tip"?

Great question!!! I'm very interested in what people think here. Especially the overseas folks.

I've heard that "adequate" service gets 15% and if you're leaving satisfied and happy, then 20% is in order. I tend to take care to overshoot this (it nets me free drinks quite often). I always round up to the nearest dollar, or the nearest five, if the case may be. It seems that when I'm really shitfaced, the more generous I get, as I've woken up the next day to see some of my bar tabs at $200, and a $100 tip. But sometimes I get bartenders and waitresses pushing my money back at my drunk ass. Fuck I don't know. Money can't buy me love, but it sure buys happiness at a bar.

Frankennietzsche · Post by **Frankennietzsche** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:27 pm

At least $1 every other drink.

Circling over Shannon · Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:30 pm

yea depending on how much i order I usually tip around I guess 30%, but if I order like 2 beers at a place I usually tip bigger-- actually funny story, I was at a neighborhood joint the other night and I got this nerw waitress and when I ordered a stout (yummy dunkle's german stout grrrreat) as I usually do at this place the bitch carded me, I was quite offended and pointed her in the direction of a wqaiter who's served me many times. So I got my beer and she got the shittiest tip ever (bout $1 on a $20 bill) I really thought about that to before I did it because I"ve been a waitress but she was also an aweful waitress. Anyway so I saw her on the street today and aparently she remembered me because she gacve me a glare whew!

deadpuppiesandwhores · Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:13 pm

DrunkenJackFlask wrote:
Circling over Shannon wrote:By the way what percentage is considered a "good tip"?
Great question!!! I'm very interested in what people think here. Especially the overseas folks.

I've heard that "adequate" service gets 15% and if you're leaving satisfied and happy, then 20% is in order. I tend to take care to overshoot this (it nets me free drinks quite often). I always round up to the nearest dollar, or the nearest five, if the case may be. It seems that when I'm really shitfaced, the more generous I get, as I've woken up the next day to see some of my bar tabs at $200, and a $100 tip. But sometimes I get bartenders and waitresses pushing my money back at my drunk ass. Fuck I don't know. Money can't buy me love, but it sure buys happiness at a bar.

weish i was rich. no idon't. i lied. i don't desire monetary equivalence to happiness, but i eould like a free drink too.

DrunkenJackFlask · Post by **DrunkenJackFlask** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:27 pm

i used to be doing pretty well. then I just had good credit. then i had no credit but good income. now i better not lose my fucking job or i;m really screwed...

DrunkenJackFlask · Post by **DrunkenJackFlask** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:33 pm

Circling over Shannon wrote:...the bitch carded me

I have so given up on that. I haven't been carded since high school. Now i just pull out my ID to make them giggle at an old guy.

deadpuppiesandwhores · Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:39 pm

DrunkenJackFlask wrote:
Circling over Shannon wrote:...the bitch carded me
I have so given up on that. I haven't been carded since high school. Now i just pull out my ID to make them giggle at an old guy.

i think its funny when i gtr arde . thyer betteter hope i'm 21 or they're fuckjed cuz i been buyin frin 'em for a few yerears now.

Circling over Shannon · Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:50 pm

DrunkenJackFlask wrote:
Circling over Shannon wrote:...the bitch carded me
I have so given up on that. I haven't been carded since high school. Now i just pull out my ID to make them giggle at an old guy.

See I'm actually not 20 for another year and 4 days:) But I'm obviously not 17 years old and she has to know that if I don't get my drink she doesn't get a tip. When I waitressed if someone ordered a beer (not a group of rowdy obviously HS kids) and they could pass for 20+ then I'd serve them. And when I do get served I tip very well (this is the reason any other waiter in the joint would be willing to vouch for me)

Generic Jug · Post by **Generic Jug** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:53 pm

I get carded pretty much everywhere I go, because I look like I'm 16. Hell, I still get carded for cigarettes, I'd say more than half the time. I don't know whether to be proud or horrified. My doting relatives, of course, always say I'll enjoy it when I'm older, but why the fuck would I care when I'm older? Everything just goes downhill from here, and if I need to rely on youthful looks by the time I'm 40, well, there's a big problem.