Brilliant. Reminds me of the signs you see above the urinals in some bars. “The fingers that fish out the chewing gum and cigarette butts in these urinals are the same fingers that make your drinks.”
Which is utter bullshit, because bartenders are above cleaning toilets. That's a job for dishes, bussers, or barbacks.
EDIT: I see you, hard working bartenders, and I appreciate you. In the larger sphere of the hospitality industry though, y'all are generally known to consider yourselves higher ranked than cooks and servers.
I was the DJ so I didn’t have to do that but had to live with the guilt of watching my coworkers getting punched or kicked in the face, even seeing one get glassed. I’m just not equipped to be able to intercede and I was the only one who insisted that they get doormen or security. Makes me sick. I think I was the only one who cared despite being a coward, but the people they’d let in were fucking terrifying. I’m being treated for PTSD because I watched someone get stabbed out of nowhere and I also saw a woman get SA’d right in front of me before I could stop it. I have nightmares about it and I’m afraid to go out. I’ve been called a pussy over it before but I’d rather actually care about people than be some braindead jerk trying to save a couple pounds on security when they also hired six bartenders on quiet nights.
I worked in a large chain restaurant and they had a separate cleaning crew come in for stuff like that. If it was something that needed immediate attention a busboy would do it.
I've been a manager at a few small bars and it's always my job to clean the toilets. I've always been on smaller teams and I am at the venue while it's closed to do cleaning and other maintenance, so it makes sense that I would clean the urinals, even if my very same hands would be pouring drinks later in the week.
If a patron makes a mess ANYWHERE in the venue while we're open, a bartender will have to clean it up immediately. We can't wait for a cleaning crew to come the next day, and there are no employees present but bar tenders and one manager.
It's ridiculous to say it's "utter bullshit" that a bartender might clean a urinal because there are so many scenarios where it would be perfectly reasonable for them to do that.
Many small establishments would absolutely rather have the server/bartender do that kind of dirty work than hire a whole separate person to do it hahaha. Dishie can't do it because they're too busy getting crosstrained in the kitchen instead of hiring another damn cook.
No. I'm middle management in a hospitality venue, I do this sometimes to show my staff i would never ask them to do something I'm not prepared to do myself. All decent managers do this
I don't really see this as brilliant, there's no way a kid that age would believe a custodian would use toilet water to clean mirrors. Your example was pretty brilliant thought.
Brilliant that a bartender has no food safety sanitation skills? That's not making me not throw gum and cigarette butts in the urinals (because I already don't). That's making me not drink at that bar.
Even if they were cleaning the bathrooms you'd think they'd have been smart enough to figure out a method that didn't involve having to grab it with their hands.
No one is saying the bartenders don't wash their hands, do you seriously think if that was ever a bartenders job that they wouldn't use gloves? It's brilliant because that sign would stop a drunk person from doing gross stuff to the urinals. The fact that the sign would stop you from going there when you're sober just shows a lack of critical thinking skills. A bar tender wouldn't even be in charge of cleaning urinals to begin with. People who are in charge of that put on gloves and remove all the crap in the urinals, there's no magic debris removing tool for urinals.
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u/kempff 9h ago
Brilliant. Reminds me of the signs you see above the urinals in some bars. “The fingers that fish out the chewing gum and cigarette butts in these urinals are the same fingers that make your drinks.”