06/16/2026
🗣️ After being in the hospitality industry for well over two decades, 23+ years to be exact, I feel like I’m allowed to say this. If you have to bully or beg people to tip you, bartending is NOT for you. If you have to inbox or message a customer because they only left you a dollar or two, bartending is NOT for you. If you have to pass your number out to every male or female that comes in the bar to get extra tips, bartending is NOT for you. It doesn’t matter how cute you think you are, how big you think your b***y is 😂, how popular you think you are, or even what kind of clothes or shoes you have on. Most of us wear comfortable clothes and ugly crocs so we can move around quicker 😂
Bartending is a service based industry. It’s all about how you greet your customer, the relationships you have established with your clientele, how you acknowledge your customer, how you remember faces, remember what they drink, what their boyfriend/girlfriend drinks, do they like their drink neat or on the rocks, do they take a beer on the side, did you place a napkin under their drink, did you use the proper straw (short vs tall)… it also depends on your speed, your accuracy, your hygiene, your cleanliness and how well you mix drinks. You have to be able to balance out ingredients. And if a customer comes in and asks you to make them something good, you need to know what questions to ask and what to do with the kind of liquor they are asking for.
Lots of these girls now a days lack the bare minimum and expect to make a couple hundred dollars a night, with little to no prep, stock, clean up or dirty work. They can’t take constructive criticism, they think they know everything, they don’t ask questions, they do what they want, they talk back, don’t know what their true job duties are, and blame others for their mishaps without taking any accountability. And unfortunately that doesn’t always work out because they don’t have the proper tools, knowledge or experience to pull it off. And that’s when things usually go left. They are too worried about making money. Some will even over serve when customers are visibly intoxicated because they want a couple extra big bucks. Nobody’s life is worth a $20 bill in my book. AND when you’re good at what you do, the blessings and money flow in naturally. I’m just saying 🤷🏽♀️💟💯
