Message 6485 of 22774 in Behind the Bar

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> I sorta think I see where he's coming from here. Let's say you run 
> the sort of bar that normally serves martinis and manhattans to urban 
> professionals and a fellow breezes in in flip flops and a t-shirt 
> being loud, and obnoxious and asking for a jaeger bomb or a 
> red-headed slut. You might feel uncomfortable serving him because too 
> many such people would drive away your existing clientelle, who come 
> to your bar to avoid these types. 
> 
> Or take the reverse. Lets say you run a wild college bar and some fop 
> in a suit comes in and whispers for an old fashioned. Who the hell 
> does he think he is? Not only is he asking for a time-consuming drink 
> from a busy bar, not only does he not have the decency to speak up 
> and make himself heard, but he also ends up coming off as a 
> pretentious ass-hole, and if enough such people drop by, they end up 
> killing the buzz that this bar's normal clientelle flock to it for. 
> After all, if they wanted to drink with old fuddy duddy's, they'd go 
> home and drink with their parents. :)


Methinks you are giving this belly aching fellow way too much credit.  That 
isn't the tone of the original post, nor did he offer up that information.


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