Message 4408 of 22774 in Behind the Bar

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> The best way to use it is to rest it at a slight angle firmly against 
> the top of the glass....fill, dump (you develop a rhythm after 
> awhile). This gives you a steady and secure target that happens to be 
> just where you want it to be. You can always tell the amatuers 
> because they pour in the jigger and then in an unbalanced way try to 
> get the filled jigger over to the glass and dump. 

Hi Cheryl,

boy did you say it.  I've got a completely green girl training right now, 
she's done bar school but has no service background and hasn't really spent 
any time in bars as even a customer.  I must have told her ten times in one 
night, "Rest the jigger on the glass, pretend there's a hinge on the rim."  I 
kept watching her pour into the jigger while holding it two feet away from the 
glass.  Since she can't move the jigger several inches while it's completely 
full she keeps underpouring the shots, which I get on her case about too.  
This is a hotel bar, we don't give anything away, but I will see to it that 
people get their full shot.  

I'm a tad frustrated with her.  Yes, I know she's new, but I could have faked 
it behind the bar just from the amount of time I was in them as a college 
student.  By the time I got a bar job I was a lot more comfortable back there 
than it looks like she'll ever be.  Just venting a little, I honestly don't 
know why she even wants this job since she seems to have avoided drinking and 
bars thus far in her life.   


" P.S. Those measured bottle pourers suck."

Yes they do!  I've leaned on my boss about them and I'm going to push her to 
get me the standard metal pour spouts when we order another batch.  We're 
already using the jiggers, that makes the measured spouts redundant.  Jigger 
OR measured spout (or freepour, of course), NOT BOTH!!!  I'm so sick of them 
cutting out early (especially when the bottle is almost empty) and looking 
like an idiot in front of the customer as I repeatedly rotate the bottle to 
get that ounce out.  

The other problem is we don't have nearly enough spouts.  I want to get a lot 
more of them so I can put them on all but the most obscure bottles.  The fact 
that several of the bottles I use nightly have to be unscrewed and poured from 
openly slows me down considerably, being careful to not gush into the jigger.