Inefficiency. Does it drive you demented?

Id imagine the bar is way down the list at such venues, they are going to get the trade anyhow so don't really care about how slow or sh it the beer is.

It infuriates me at ANY bar when a bar person (usually some young wan or fella that have no interest in being there but want money) only take 1 or 2 orders at a time. What? Have ye goldfish memories or something? It's especially infuriating when it's only one person giving them say an 8 drink order and they come back two-a-timing asking them to repeat it.

2 Guinness, 3 Gin and Tonics, a Jack Daniels and Coke, 1 Bottle of Heinken and a 7 up.

2 Guinness and what else?

3 Gin and Tonics, a Jack Daniels and Coke, 1 Bottle of Heinken and a 7 up.

What's with the Jack Daniels?

A Coke

There's your Coke, is that it?

No, I still need a Bottle of Heinken and a 7 up.

Theres the Heineken and 7 up and your Guinness

I asked for 2 Guinness

Oh yeah....

Not one to blow my own horn (oh, if only) but I worked in bars for about 16 years. At the top of my game in a nightclub, I could take up to 15 drink orders and serve 3 to 4 people at a time. Train the brain FFS.

Or just don't drink?

Demented? No. Mildly Exasperated? Hell, yes. I chalk a lot of it up to short-sightedness, people planning or looking ahead to see the expected consequences of their actions.

People who have bought electric cars say that it's forced them to become better at planning the details of a trip. They can't just get in the car and drive, knowing that they'll be able to fill up at any convenient petrol station. The result is more efficient use of a limited resource. If / when quick charging stations become more common, we can expect the overall efficiency to drop a bit, since it'll be safer to be a bit more careless.

So I think it works both ways: you can be inefficient if you have plenty of <resource> to play with, but if you have a limited supply of <resource>, you have to be more efficient with. <resource> can be something physical, like fuel, or intangible, like time.

**** me, MadsL curses a lot and doesn't a warning. :pac:

EDIT, ah who put ****'s there?

MadsL wrote: »

They must not like money or have heard of draft beer and the idea of one person pouring and the other grabbing money like they were printing it.

At slane one year this was happening, I think there was only 3 draft beers available, teams of people just continually pouring pints and others taking the money. Also it was €5 each and I think there might even have been a minimum of 2 drinks, or a special line with a 2 drink minimum. So people were forking over money at a ridiculous pace, none of this €5.05 a pint you still get in some venues.

In kilmaihnam gigs they had wine in soft pouches, like capri suns with nozzles. I was thinking they should have beer in softer plastic cans or just in plastic bottles. They give out plastic coke bottles at gigs and usually take the cap off you so you cannot throw it and have it hit people with more force. They would probably not want real cans as they could form a weapon -though I think that is stupid since if I ever wanted to get a knife into any venue I know I could, just reminds me of the stupid security measures on airplanes done just for show. There is a danger of people falling on torn cans though.

They could also give you 2L bottles and a plastic cup. In the O2 they have mcdonalds style caps for the cups so they are not spilling everywhere, and cardboard holders to stick 4 cups of so into. I have seen rows of lads all with 4 packs stuck under their seat.

They could have vending machines in venues too, in most you need to be 18 to get in so there should be no issue with serving age. You could have staff to check that totally pissed people do not get more. Just similar to how self service checkouts have staff monitoring customers.

In O donoghues pub in dublin city centre on busy days I have seen barmen just continually pouring out guinness and letting it settle, so you get it really quick. Dunno why all busy pubs don't do this more. Its like the barman is going "jesus, another oddball ordering guinness, who'd have thunk it, been happening all night and all of them have to wait 2-3mins".

rubadub wrote: »

In O donoghues pub in dublin city centre on busy days I have seen barmen just continually pouring out guinness and letting it settle, so you get it really quick. Dunno why all busy pubs don't do this more. Its like the barman is going "jesus, another oddball ordering guinness, who'd have thunk it, been happening all night and all of them have to wait 2-3mins".

Not all of us do it because not all pubs sell a lot of stout.... and even the ones that do, the customers would be fickle about it being too quick so it's not fresh.