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How do you collect glasses at a bar?

  • 28-07-2015 11:34pm
    #1
    Postoffice123
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭


    Sorry it's a stupid question..but there's a right way to do everything, right? Just want to know how to do it properly! I'm always holding them an awkward way that makes it easy for them to fall and break.. Do you stack them up or what?

    Thanks !!


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  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    What type of glasses? You can stack way more campus than flutes, but you can finger way more flutes than campuses.


  • #3
    Postoffice123
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Postoffice123


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    What type of glasses? You can stack way more campus than flutes, but you can finger way more flutes than campuses.

    Like pint glasses, half glasses, normal glasses ..


  • #4
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Postoffice123 wrote: »
    Sorry it's a stupid question..but there's a right way to do everything, right? Just want to know how to do it properly! I'm always holding them an awkward way that makes it easy for them to fall and break.. Do you stack them up or what?

    Thanks !!

    Go to specsavers;)


  • #5
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Learn how to hold two pint glasses in one hand, both side by side and the bases of the glasses resting on your spread fingers, with your hand slightly cupped.
    Once you can do that, it makes everything a lot easier.


  • #6
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Get a tray.
    Never put your fingers in them.


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  • #7
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    The only right way to do it involves not breaking many. You can do fancy collecting and stacking in an empty pub during the day. Different rules apply in a crowded bar with drunks tottering hither and thither - then it's just damage prevention.


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Postoffice123 wrote: »
    Like pint glasses, half glasses, normal glasses ..

    You need a good palm. Practice holding three glasses in the palm of your hand (two pint glasses) and then add in ones to it until you have a good handful. Then practice the same with a tray until you're able to carry a good fifty or sixty in one go. It's all about practice.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Normal glasses can be stacked, hand underneath bottom and have them resting on arm up to your shoulder.

    So many different pint glass heights and shapes these days so easiest way is to use fingers


  • #10
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Where I come from, we're more concerned with hashing out drink than worrying about made up rules. :)


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Are we talking about collecting or delivering?

    Delivering-

    3 half glasses resting in one palm or 2 hands around 3-4 pints.


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  • #12
    The Dogs Bollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭The Dogs Bollix


    Take them off people's faces


  • #13
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Practice holding 4 glasses in 1 hand balancing one on each finger tip and using your palm as a back rest and your thumb as a counter balance.

    One you've mastered this you can carry 70 or 80 glasses.


  • #14
    Ah nuts
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Ah nuts


    A ruck sack with some bubble wrap is the best way to get them outside unnoticed and unbroken.


  • #15
    ratracer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭ratracer


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Get a tray.
    Never put your fingers in them.

    Ah now, everybody needs to stick their fingers in cider at least once 😜


  • #16
    Postoffice123
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Postoffice123


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Are we talking about collecting or delivering?

    Delivering-

    3 half glasses resting in one palm or 2 hands around 3-4 pints.

    Collecting as I said in the question up there :)


  • #17
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    I'm a Lazy fuker, I just leave them

    21/25



  • #18
    Postoffice123
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Postoffice123


    ratracer wrote: »
    Ah now, everybody needs to stick their fingers in cider at least once 😜

    They're collected to be washed like, don't see why you can't put your fingers in em!!😂😂


  • #19
    Postoffice123
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Postoffice123


    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    Practice holding 4 glasses in 1 hand balancing one on each finger tip and using your palm as a back rest and your thumb as a counter balance.

    One you've mastered this you can carry 70 or 80 glasses.
    I'm 17 and have thin fragile fingers no way hahaha


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Postoffice123 wrote: »
    Collecting as I said in the question up there :)

    Oops, perhaps I should stop drinking ;)


  • #21
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Consult your training manual.
    Section 1.a2. Ref: collecting glasses at bar.


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  • #22
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    How do I collect glasses at a bar? I don't.

    They bring it to my table


  • #23
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    And if any of them have milk in them, fcuk them into either the kitchen or the bin. Nothing wrecks a glass like milk, even one in the dishwasher will contaminate the whole batch.


  • #24
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    What type of glasses? You can stack way more campus than flutes, but you can
    **""finger way more flutes""**
    than campuses.

    ;)


  • #25
    sm213
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭sm213


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And if any of them have milk in them, fcuk them into either the kitchen or the bin. Nothing wrecks a glass like milk, even one in the dishwasher will contaminate the whole batch.

    Just wondering what milk does to glasses?


  • #26
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    sm213 wrote: »
    Just wondering what milk does to glasses?
    Lactic acid, kills a head worse than a person worse with rotten teeth.


  • #27
    roverrules
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 331 ✭✭roverrules


    Long long ago in a foreign land I was told not to stack the glasses because of the danger of the bottom ones fracturing and inflicting bodily harm, the answer was to collect less of them but more often.

    Exec summary, only lazy barstewards have a need to stack glasses


  • #28
    ectoraige
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    Just use your fingers, they are going to be washed so it doesn't matter a damn. Do it regularly, any time you leave a table make sure there aren't any empty glasses left there.


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