Saturday, May 16, 2009

Payment...

When you go to the grocery store you don't buy your items one at a time? Nor do you eat them before you purchase them... I would also hope that when the cashier gives you the total that you wouldn't sit there on the phone and yap away, making her wait as everyone else behind you is also waiting to check out...

Customer #1.) I actually had a guy tell me to hold on and wait for payment as he sat there texting... Yes, he even held a finger up as he barely looked me in the eye... I couldn't help but wait to see how long he would take. ...A minute was unacceptable considering it was midnight on a Friday night. This particular guy open and closed his tab a total of four times in the course of the night. Each time I would ask him, "Is this your last round?" Each time he would reply with a yes. ...On the fourth time he had the audacity to tell me that I looked mad... Common sense never appeared to dawn on him so I figured, why waste my breath? I just smiled at him and said no... Not at all...

Customer #2.) Grabbed his shots, walked away from the bar to do them with his friends on the dance floor then proceeded to stand there and talk oblivious to the fact that someone behind him was waiting for cash or at least a credit card (which he'd probably close right out to reopen again later)...

Customer #3.) Ahh... the guy who pulls crumbled bills out of his pocket and drops them on the bar for you to sort... By the time you straighten & sort them, he's long gone and you realize he left you a one dollar tip an a $29 order...

Customer #4) The one that actually opens a tab from the very first order, waits patiently when he needs more drinks without flagging his hand in your face or leaning over the bars center point into your well, orders all his drinks at one time, looks you straight in the eye, cell phone in pocket, says thank you, offers you a shot (which I had to graciously decline since I was not up for drinking) and upon closing his tab, tips you over 20%, hands you his signed copy along with the pen, gives a sincere thank you and a good night...



And some people wonder why they get ignored...

5 comments:

  1. I love this Dana, I wish we had this when I was bartending dammit! I hope you're well girl, you look great.

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  2. Reminisce baby! Reminisce!!! :)

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  3. Other irritations include co-workers who perform relentless imitations of certain muscle-bound movie-stars who like to talk about "tight bodies" and the like. What a dreadful existence!

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  4. Haha! It's the fun we have behind the bar that makes it all worth the while!

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  5. I cant wait to vent... MANY stories to come...

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