tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711067561118474358.post374003246979542138..comments2023-10-02T02:57:06.373-07:00Comments on These American Servers: Bartenders Beware! ©2012 by Joe Sixtop all rights reservedJoe Sixtophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08242065520511683288noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711067561118474358.post-88290535887570361012012-04-23T14:24:31.721-07:002012-04-23T14:24:31.721-07:00Damn dude, that what you just wrote could be its o...Damn dude, that what you just wrote could be its own episode of These American Servers™ only better than the 1 I just posted! Thanks for reading and commenting!Joe Sixtophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08242065520511683288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711067561118474358.post-84831016252891443502012-04-23T14:22:34.346-07:002012-04-23T14:22:34.346-07:00Hey guys thanks so much for reading and commenting...Hey guys thanks so much for reading and commenting! The industry is changing in a lot of ways and I don't care for most of them.Joe Sixtophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08242065520511683288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711067561118474358.post-53726089300258955552012-04-20T11:15:44.466-07:002012-04-20T11:15:44.466-07:00Things like this always crack me up. Corporations...Things like this always crack me up. Corporations long ago decided that their hourly employees were brain dead thieving twit who could not be trusted. This lead to the implementation of many of the procedures they have today. Now they are showing that they think the same of their managers and should manage the store from their corporate offices (which in the case of the previous commenter is right up the road from me). I think if they weren't paying their managers the same salary they were a decade ago, they wouldn't have to invest in an overhyped/underdelivering piece of technology to do the manager's job. We had a way to do this when I managed. If draft beer was high, I would watch the bartenders and count to pours versus the pmix by hour. I never had a tough time catching the source of the problem. I also didn't have to worry about it much because I treated my bartenders and professionals and respected them. Maybe these corporations could find an app for that.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14682849750698802450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711067561118474358.post-38594742834953422602012-04-19T21:03:42.044-07:002012-04-19T21:03:42.044-07:00I usually don't comment but I had to on this s...I usually don't comment but I had to on this subject. I recently quit my job of six years. I started when I was 16 and worked my way up. I don't drink so I never really wanted to bartend but one day about two years ago they found themselves suddenly bartender-less and kinda threw me in there. The company I worked for, let's call them Crapplebee's, fired more bartenders than I can count because of their "TapDynamic" system. By the time I started to bartend I knew that the system was b/s and kept every single one of my receipts from the night, as well as a written log of beer sold and times (yes it was a total pain in the ass, but the money was pretty good) so when I came in the next shift to a write up and the Dynamics sheet I had plenty of proof to back myself up. The problem was that our tap system was older than I was and not to mention the fact that the beer had to travel the length of the store to get to the bar. TapDynamics doesn't account for foam, a line flush, or a keg change. If a customer didn't like the beer and it was taken off their check, the system still counted that as a beer that wasn't rang in. God help you if a customer wanted to try the new Sam seasonal beer. Instead of just giving them a taste you had to run all over hells creation to find a manager to approve it, then put it in our shift log along with the time, date, and the customer had to initial it! Our area director and her boss were in having lunch and she told me they were taking out the system. She wished they'd never agreed to install it not because of how many long time bartenders in many of her stores that she lost, but because of all the paperwork that came with firing them. When I asked her if they were going to be offered their jobs back she looked at me like I had three heads and said, "No, I just hope they don't f...ing sue us." I put my two weeks in the next day.Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08900529512616652955noreply@blogger.com