Weekend update
Jun. 1st, 2008 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
growler_southA strange weekend at the bar, even for a long weekend. Thursady was utterly dire: I barely made enough to cover my wages. Friday wasn't much better, but at least we had time to stock the bar up really well in anticipation of sunday night's underwear party.
Saturday we were descended upon by a plague of beer-guzzling bears who practically cleaned the fridge out- quite a feat even when the fridge is stocked normally, but insane when it was as packed as it was. We did enough trade on Saturday to more than make up for the terrible performance on Friday and Thursday.
Saturday may have had something to do with the celebrity guest bartender: I roped lovely Terry (Terry and Steven) into doing a night behind the bar, because I was short a decent bartender. It shaped up to be one of my more brilliant ideas: the punters loved having a personal friend behind the bar, the tourists enjoyed the eye candy, and Terry, flush with the novelty and nostalgia of bartending, grinned and bounced his way through the evening. Before he left he remarked that it was a heap of fun and he'd love to come back in a month or two and do it again. I really do think this is an opportunity we could explore, pretty much all of my friends have some hospitality experience and would love the chance to show off behind the bar now and again.
And so to Sunday. I *thought* I had done enough shopping for the entire weekend, but today was spent driving hither and yon, filling the poor wee golf to the gunwales with beer and Jagermeister while Mikey attacked the storeroom with extreme prejudice. 5 hours of shopping, stocking, cleaning, and tossing trash and the bar's looking pretty damn good- I think we're in for a very fun evening.
Saturday we were descended upon by a plague of beer-guzzling bears who practically cleaned the fridge out- quite a feat even when the fridge is stocked normally, but insane when it was as packed as it was. We did enough trade on Saturday to more than make up for the terrible performance on Friday and Thursday.
Saturday may have had something to do with the celebrity guest bartender: I roped lovely Terry (Terry and Steven) into doing a night behind the bar, because I was short a decent bartender. It shaped up to be one of my more brilliant ideas: the punters loved having a personal friend behind the bar, the tourists enjoyed the eye candy, and Terry, flush with the novelty and nostalgia of bartending, grinned and bounced his way through the evening. Before he left he remarked that it was a heap of fun and he'd love to come back in a month or two and do it again. I really do think this is an opportunity we could explore, pretty much all of my friends have some hospitality experience and would love the chance to show off behind the bar now and again.
And so to Sunday. I *thought* I had done enough shopping for the entire weekend, but today was spent driving hither and yon, filling the poor wee golf to the gunwales with beer and Jagermeister while Mikey attacked the storeroom with extreme prejudice. 5 hours of shopping, stocking, cleaning, and tossing trash and the bar's looking pretty damn good- I think we're in for a very fun evening.
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Date: 2008-06-01 09:44 am (UTC)