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> I agree with keeping it here.  Some of this might help others improve 
> or distinguish their levels of service.
> We do have small and pinch carafes.  As for the rest, I am looking to 
> completely change my line of glassware.  Currently, they are pouring 
> into a 10 oz. rocks glass.
> I have a standard brigade setup with front and back waiters.  Not 
> currently using the DRA, maybe when we are busier.
> I would like to deliver as many drinks to the table in this method as 
> possible, however, more likely is to limit it to rocks, highballs, 
> martinis, OFs, etc.  I certainly don't plan to "club" a LITea.
> Thanks for everything.
> Charles

Charles,

I take your place is just instituting or reinstituting this type of service?

The carafes, as you know, are critical to this type of service, so make sure 
you have plenty of them as they are hard to wash and easy to break so you are 
going to lose a few in addition to the ones you are going to have on the 
tables at any given time. The places I worked this system either used one 
ounce or one and one half ounce sizes and corresponded with having 3 oz 
glasses (like a small old fashion glass) for repouring out of the carafes into 
for drinking neat (without ice) and a 5 oz glass for drinking with ice. A 
highball glass was used for the chaser. (primarily water or dry soda)

When doing a highball or a drink like a Screwdriver or Cuba Libra we sometimes 
prepoured everything but the alcohol when taking anything to the table, but a 
variation I learned was to take the ice in a small crystal bowl with silver 
tongs on the same tray, along with the mix in a cream pitcher, and the empty 
glass and we put everything together tableside except, of course, for the 
alcohol. The alcohol was poured into the carafe after presenting the bottle 
for examination (more on that later) and receiving the go ahead from the 
patron. Any garnish was on a small shallow bowl that matched the cream pitcher 
and was placed in or on the glass after permission from the patron.

If you are going to step up to white gloves, you might want to find a military 
surplus store and get a bulk price on officer's dress gloves as you will need 
at least a new pair every half hour when you are busy, and some of them will 
be stained badly enough that bleach isn't going to save them. I would hope if 
you go the route of white gloves that the gloves and their washing and ironing 
is a house responsibility. If more than one person is going to be doing this, 
you are going to need them in a variety of sizes as well, because if they 
don't fit right there are going to be other problems as well.

I'm going back to one of your earlier posts to try to answer the questions you 
posted there. Again, feel free to ask questions.

Chance