Message 20051 of 39188 in General Discussion

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I replied to your first post but you seemed to be a bit miffed with my reply. 
Lets try again.

> I am noticing that a lot of people do NOT like sweet drinks. 

Well, do not give them sweet drinks.
 
> As a bartender, I try to recommend new drinks to people. I think that 
> MOST people, when they come in to a place like mine (a restaurant 
> with a bar, not a bar that serves food), they don't have a lot of 
> drinking experience. Either they are early 20's, and have heard of 
> the Long Island, so they ask for it, or else they used to alwasy 
> drink a Vodka Tonic, what else am I supposed to get?

You as the Bartender are there to educate.

> We also have a few liquers that are just sitting there, and I have 
> some recipes that I think they could try.... 
 
> but MOST folx, it seems, don't care for sweet drinks.

So why do you give them sweet drinks. I do not really understand what your 
saying here?

> I have had a number of people enjoy the 'Piece of Ass' (Amaretto, 
> Southern Comfort and Sour Mix) and a few liked the 'Naked Twister' 
> (Midori, Tuaca, Vodka, Pineapple Juice and 7 Up), but it's not very 
> often that we get to make a Mai Tai, or a Rum Runner, or anything 
> else with much flavor. 

Suggest the drinks you want to sell. Do you have those two cocktails you 
mention on your menu? If not, why are you selling them?

> I've been working at this one spot for more than a month and have not 
> made ONE Sloe Gin Fizz! That's a sissy drink (as in, for those that 
> are scared to get drunk), but I don't get many to request it. I also 
> have made not ONE 'Sex on the Beach' and it's summertime!

How many people do you know that actually drink Sloe Gin? Why do you want to 
make Sex on the beach? It is a shit drink.
 
> I'm trying to push the Tuaca

Why Tuaca?

> Has any one else noticed the same? Is this a good thing that people 
> are not drinking the fruity drinks? 

Surely the cocktails you mentioned before (Piece of Ass and Naked Twister are 
Fruity Drinks? Maybe not to you but with those ingredients, they sure are to 
me.

> Does any one care but me????

If i knew what your point was, i might. What is it you are actually trying to 
sell???? In my experience, Sloe Gin Fizz and Tuaca are not the sort of things 
the General Public want.