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Subject: Re: make it a double? or not...
From: power_def
Posted: Mon Dec 3. 2007, 22:24 UTC
Followup to: "make it a double? or not..."  by TinyTender  (Mon Dec 3. 2007, 22:04 UTC)
> Hmm.. as some may know- I am a total rookie- learning though! So I 
> had this regualar on my first night- had about 7 cups of captain n 
> coke... after a while though- obviously being drunk, he kept saying 
> how it needed more liquor but I kept makin it the way I was 
> taught...he did not make a problem out of it but I am curious if this 
> is a situation where I should ask "make it a double"? Yet, does that 
> simply mean, 2 shots of captain instead of 1, and half the coke? 
> and.... would this not be a bad thing, to get this guy 
> drunker..faster? I am thinking he would have ended up buying LESS 
> drinks overall, had his drinks been double the strength.. so what is 
> better...does the money involved with making a drink a "double" 
> compensate for LESS drinks made as opposed to many more standard 
> drinks...and getting him to spend his money slowly but surely? LOL. I 
> guess had he been an ass or gotten upset over it I would have had to 
> offer something stronger but since he wasn't I just kept em' comin... 
> 
> hmm.

If he is obviously drunk.  Find out where his keys are and make sure the 
patron isn't driving home.  Then by all means ask him if he wants a double :) 
.  Remember you're responsible for putting the alcohol in the patrons system 
and if he causes trouble it can come back to haunt you.


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