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• Bottle Service and Moguls – Ginormous Gratuities

  

  Living and working in the headquarters (arguably) of the financial, cultural, and entertainment worlds – New York City – I’ve often thought that I do pretty wel... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tip Pooling 101 – Bar Math for Dummies

  

  In the bar business, few things cause me more angst than the topic of money; I mean my money. It’s my main reason for emerging from my man-cave isn’t it? Come... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tipping Tips – Slider Edition

  

  I was driving the wife and meatbally pre-K daughter around my old neighborhood the other day, stopping at my favorite Astoria destinations: Sweet Afton, Brookly... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Harsh Realities of Bartending

  

  So you want to be a bartender, huh? Reality is not the movies. Tom Cruise you are not. Review this checklist then let me know if you’re still up for the job.... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Bartender Relationships – P.B. & J. Edition

  

  Fellow bartender and laureate Caveman, nails what will go down in history as the most accurate description of bartender relationships ever. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Ten Ways to Sink Your Bar

  

  Having been on the forefront of small business battle-lines, working tirelessly to ensure somebody else’s success, popularity and profits, I’ve obtained some... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Types of Bar Customers – Part Two

  

  Part I can be found here. 1. David Copperfield: Mr. Copperfield believes he’s your BFF and that you’ll do just about anything for him. He walk-runs to the bar o... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Soda Gun Cleaning Brigade

  

  See this thing folks? Know what it is? It’s Wunderbar’s commercial soda gun dispenser. It’s the source of all things carbonated at 99% of bars. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Paying the Hospitality Dues – Early Life Choices

  

  Life’s funny, ain’t it? Weird happenings and stranger choices often conspire to drive us in odd directions that can only be honestly evaluated, and... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Supersize Wine Glass

  

  This lovely evening has graced the New York City area with Mother Nature’s finest imitation of shit London weather. I fucking love London. I don’t love... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• So How Much Money Do You Make?

  

  I get a lot of seriously dumb-shit questions. Many genius customers throw unabashed inquiries out there with such ease and candor, you would think I’d known the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Epic Tips on Endurance Drinking

  

  Giz speaks. Epic tips on endurance drinking… Read on… Drinking all day is an endurance event. You are literally slowly poisoning yourself all day and seeing... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Management Fail – P.J. Clarke’s Barkeep Fired for Ejecting Problem Customer

  

  Doug Quinn. He’s an old-school, good-looking, NYC classic bartender of Irish descent. Umm… or rather, he was a bartender – at the infamous P.J. Clarke’s on Thir... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• TTAB Zeitgeist

  

  One of the more interesting aspects of being a blogging bartender is poking around on the back-end (no pun intended) of the WordPress platform I use to run... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• 86 This Booze – Les Cochons Edition

  

  Les Francais – ahhh! I heart most things French. I’m fluent in the language. I’ve been there several times. Many relatives of mine call France home and I’m... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION