The Bartender’s View

The Dirty Secret of Bar Entertainment Every bar manager knows the deal: you pay an outside vendor $150-200 per week to run trivia night or music bingo. That’s $7,800 to…

Nobody Taught Me This Stuff When I started bartending, the training was three shifts of following someone around, memorizing where the bottles were, and getting thrown to the wolves on…

Stop Buying Bar Kits on Amazon Every year, thousands of bright-eyed bartenders drop $200+ on a shiny Amazon bar toolkit with 47 pieces, a bamboo stand, and a muddler they’ll…

Every bar has regulars. The ones who sit in the same seat, order the same drink, tell the same stories. Then there are the ones who walk in like they’ve…

There’s something about 1:45 AM that turns strangers into philosophers. The music’s winding down, the lights are coming up just enough to remind you where you are, and suddenly everyone’s…

You know what surprises me? That people still say this. After twenty years of hearing “surprise me,” I’ve learned that what they really mean is “make me something I already…