Other dude is stealing glances at this girl and massaging his thigh ughhh
― calstars, Sunday, 13 June 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
5’ 4” The rock / vin diesel mashup finally relaxes and stretches his legs out, sitting across from lady bodybuilder
― calstars, Sunday, 13 June 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
What % do you tip on the buy back?
― calstars, Saturday, 3 July 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
Bartender smoking and dropping glasses ; )
― calstars, Saturday, 3 July 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
xp at least the price of the drink
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 3 July 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
Then it’s not a buy back. It’s a big tip.
― calstars, Saturday, 3 July 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
was at a bar last night, felt good tbh. One woman was wearing a mask but otherwise it was as it was pre-covid.
― buzza, Sunday, 4 July 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
xp I'm not sure I get it. My understanding is a buyback is the bartender giving me one on the house, not on them. If I am paying by the drink, wouldn't tipping the cost of the drink straight into their pocket be preferred?
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 4 July 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah a buy back is the bartender giving you one on the house, it doesn't cost anything.
I keep a tab going and always tip 25% at my local. I never get buy backs there, or anywhere else, but have had my whole bill comped on two occasions (my birthday and the first time we went there after my wife and I got married)
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 July 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
I kind of hate my local - don't like the decor, don't like the vibe (70s rock, metal, and americana) and the clientele that it attracts (one regular wears a leather waistcoat with nothing underneath and a cowboy hat), it's too hot in the summer but I like the staff, it's a neighborhood spot in contrast to the many breweries in the area, and it's 2 blocks away
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 July 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Monday, 5 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
new borad description
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 July 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
bartender seems experienced, and is friendly and nice to everyone, but never gives buy backs, no matter how well I tip. I thought I might ask him why, prefacing it with something like “don’t take this the wrong way…” but decided against it for now
― calstars, Monday, 5 July 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
I've only given a handful of buybacks since starting my bartender job. I would give more except this town full of shitty tippers don't deserve it.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, 5 July 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
one regular wears a leather waistcoat with nothing underneath
i'm afraid to ask how you know
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 5 July 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Famous non buy backer described above broke today. Good for him and his wallet
― calstars, Saturday, 10 July 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
One bartender I used to be regular with always, without fail, would buy the third drink. No idea now he kept track, the place was always hopping. I would tip between 2 and 5 bucks for that one. I just appreciated his effort. Otherwise wld tip a buck a beer for what was a 4 or 5 dollar beer at the Toronado back then.
― scampos sacra fames (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 10 July 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
It took 5 todayNot counting the past three months
― calstars, Saturday, 10 July 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
I got a buyback today from a well known Mpls bartender and musician and he said an appropriate tip was the cost of the drink 👀
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 11 July 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
The fuck?The idea is to give the customer a break. It’s not a break if the customer pays the same price as he would anyway Sigh
― calstars, Sunday, 11 July 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
Got to respect the hustle if nothing else
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 11 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
I asked the question on my fb with lots of barfly friends and front of house former co-workers and I think the answer you're looking for is not to tip on a buyback, but to order one more and tip on that.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 11 July 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
That’s a better answer. But I bet the bartender wouldn’t mind if you tipped on the buyback itself as well
― calstars, Sunday, 11 July 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
When I get a drink on the house, I increase the total tip by what I would have tipped for the drink, had I bought it. Not the full cost of the drink, that's nuts.
Also somehow I have never heard the term buyback. Is it regional?
I have heard the verb "house," as in "she housed our drinks." Or some form of "on the house" or "on me": "that one's on me"; "these are on the house."
― trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 11 July 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Washington, DC's The Black Cat has reopened. And redecorated....https://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-0/p180x540/215485693_10159198533464000_8067570099392114189_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=qzhzn6zFPYIAX_Sv5SQ&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl1-1.fna&oh=2cc603da6727d9f7009ed0226abcb61c&oe=60F13669
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 11 July 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
:3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 July 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
nice
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 11 July 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Happiness is a round after this one
― calstars, Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
I am currently at a bar. #blessed
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
Cheers fam
― calstars, Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
I am too.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 July 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
Junior manager keeps pacing around the place, stalking the customers. Overfriendly busboy takes my order
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
50ish couple working the jukebox. Carefully dipping their toes into early ‘90s nostalgia by playing The Sundays. No objection from the room so next we’re into Natalie Merchant’s first solo album. Emboldened by feelings, and with still no blowback from the Gen Z Colombians at the opposite end of the bar, they venture even further back to Concrete Blonde’s ‘80s hit, “Joey.” Female half of the couple knows all the lyrics of everything and sings along.
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 July 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
would kick it with this couple tbh
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 1 August 2021 12:21 (two years ago) link
Bumpin fists with the service
― calstars, Saturday, 7 August 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
Closing them all out
― calstars, Saturday, 7 August 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
Congratulations new bartender who doesn’t know what a buyback is, here’s a lifetime of dollar tips
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
Staring at recycling bins
― calstars, Sunday, 29 August 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
Deeply miss bars sometimes.
― Kind regards, Anus (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
Bartender shakes his finger at me. “We’re not open til 2 sir .”
― calstars, Monday, 6 September 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
to be fair, it was 6 am when you arrived
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 September 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
Plus de madames
― calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
des?
― calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 00:35 (two years ago) link
“He was a nice guy, he was just a loser…”
― calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
Now arriving: 80s David Crosby, 90s Harrison Ford and 00s Lena Dunham
― calstars, Sunday, 12 September 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
Bartender doesn’t remember my name but knows the color of my credit card
― calstars, Friday, 17 September 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
Guy in a sprinter van shows up and collects two kegs. Has a daughter who almost runs into the street; twice. She falls face first on the sidewalk and starts to cry.
― calstars, Friday, 1 October 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
Didn't get her favorite IPA huh
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 October 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
Runner in and out for the third time , now standing at the bar eating a hot dog
― calstars, Saturday, 2 October 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
Owner and hapless barback sidekick so creatively bankrupt that they put on “Toto radio”
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 02:04 (two years ago) link
Bartender looks like female Ozzy?
― calstars, Saturday, 16 October 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
A fun game is to develop little quirks at each oasis. Here, I’m the guy that pays with a card but leaves cash for tips. This other place, I order a drink in a non standard glass. At that one, I always show up at a certain time and have a cheap shot/beer combo
― calstars, Sunday, 24 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
Girl humblebragging “I didn’t do any drugs yesterday…”
― calstars, Sunday, 14 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Barback looks like napoleon dynamite
― calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
At a bar in Gowanus, Brooklyn tonight. The darkest bar I've ever been in. Maybe that's good, maybe we should all hide our faces in darkness like the weird creatures of the benthic zone in the sea
― Josefa, Sunday, 12 December 2021 02:44 (two years ago) link
Curly hair? CheckBuck tooth? CheckOversized glasses? CheckY’all
― calstars, Sunday, 12 December 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
impromptu afternoon session yesterday, first one since 2020, instigated by wanting to watch the F1, just me on my own and then by the time Everton game started I'd met lots of friendly people and even an old work colleague I hadn't seen for about 8 years.
five stars would session again.
― Ste, Monday, 13 December 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
Creepy Thursday night lurkin’
― calstars, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Cheap beer is cheap beer but even I draw a line at genee
― calstars, Sunday, 19 December 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
“Support our holiday shifts” Ok
― calstars, Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
After months of being a regular (and playing loads and loads of music) at my local bar, I finally got a drink on the house.
As a matter of principle I probably tipped as much as, or possibly more than, the drink's price (because of course)
At another place that I play regularly (a distillery), I ordered a bottle of their house gin to take home. But I struggled slightly with how much to tip on the value of the (rather expensive) bottle.
Like, I don't even blink at tipping $7 for a free cocktail. But I am iffy on how much to tip someone who has just, like, handed me a $45 bottle of lemon verbena gin. No matter how tasty it is. (For the record, it is extremely tasty.)
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 December 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
“But I am iffy on how much to tip someone who has just, like, handed me a $45 bottle of lemon verbena gin.“
$20
― calstars, Thursday, 23 December 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
“After months of being a regular (and playing loads and loads of music) at my local bar, I finally got a drink on the house.”They played you for a sucker Apparently they were right
― calstars, Friday, 24 December 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
“As a matter of principle I probably tipped as much as, or possibly more than, the drink's price (because of course)”Nobody’s fault but yours
jeez, calstars, what the fuck is your problem?
I tip generously because (a) the wait staff did not design capitalism and (b) they deserve it and (c) I can afford it, because I have a day job.
I don't see how it's harming you in any way.
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 December 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
He doesn't make the rules, YMP!
Just enforces then like a jowly, bow-legged Sheriff about to take his final tour of the OK Corral
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 December 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
lol
― calstars, Friday, 24 December 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
Hey what's a buyback
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 24 December 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
Hey what's a bar
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 24 December 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n1E8EgnkIo
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 24 December 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link